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BEGONIA ALBO-COCCINEA. 
interest do not seem to exist. B. albo-coccinea has only flowered in quite a small 
state, so that fine though it has proved, it has yet to exhibit itself properly. Early j 
in spring, as far as we are yet aware, is the time of its blooming. Our drawing was 
taken at that period of this year in Mr. Glendinning’s establishment, the Chiswick 
Nursery. It does not bear flowers to the extent and in the successional manner 
common to some of its allies, hut those which it does produce have a considerable 
power of endurance. 
A temperate stove, with the management in other respects Begonias usually 
experience, suffices for B. albo-coccinea , , whose habit is shown by the woodcut. 
