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foliage class not strictly belonging to the Bex or winter-flowering 

 family, I should like to draw attention to the variety named 

 President de Boureuilles, which is a great improvement on 

 B. subpeltata rubra, having claret-coloured foliage, shaded darker 

 and thickly studded with hairs, and produces large silvery-pink 

 flowers very freely. It is of very easy cultivation, and will be 

 found most serviceable for the decoration of any warm conser- 

 vatory. There are several others, chiefly of the Gloire de Sceaux 

 type, with handsome foliage and pretty flowers. 



Mention should also be made of the new kinds sent out by 

 the well-known horticulturist M. Lemoine, of Nancy, which 

 include crosses between B. scmperflorens and B. fuchsioides 

 miniata, B. Boezlii, and B. Schmidtii. 



The beautiful new hybrid autumn and winter-flowering 

 Begonias, Adonis, John Heal, and Winter Gem, are the com- 

 mencement of a new race which will enable us to keep up a 

 show of flowers between the season of the rich-coloured tuberous 

 varieties and those of the true winter-flowering type. They 

 commence to bloom in October and November, when the others 

 are scarcely yet in bud, and are destined, when improved and 

 with a little stronger habit, to form an altogether new, distinct, 

 and lovely class. It is somewhat remarkable that though they 

 are strictly tuberous, yet they are in flower when the other 

 tuberous varieties are all at rest. 



