W. R. GRAY, OAKTON, FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA. 
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The Best Flowering Begonias 
A beautiful class of plants with free-blooming qualities which make them eapecl^ally deslra^ The foliage Is 
attractive and odd, while the flowers are exceedingly graceful and beautiful. 
MANIOATA AUEEA 
One of the most beautiful variegated plants -within 
our kno-wledge. The plain green Begonia Manicata u 
a very beautiful variety, clean and glossy, bearing the 
veil of pink bloom above, but when we find Manicata 
beautifullv blotched -with cream color, often pure snow-, 
white, deepening into canary, no other plant that we 
know Carrie.-^ such bold markings, nor in so pleasing 
combination of colors. Everyone who sees It admires 
it the most of any foliage plant we grow. It has also 
a wonderfully fine bloom on a very long stem. Price, 
15 rents each. _ 
THURSTONI 
This Begonia is a cross between B. Metallica and_ B. 
Sanguines, having the bright-red foliage and velning 
underneath ihe leaves, and bright metallic green, shad- 
ing to red, in the younger growth on top, with the 
deep veinings of the Metallica and smooth glossy 
leaves and red stems of the Sanguines ; the flowers 
are a beautiful deep pink in bud. but when expanded 
become a beautiful shell-pink. Price, 10 cents. 
METALLICA 
This elegant variety has large, glossy lea-i-es, shaded 
with green, crimson and olive, with a peculiar metallic 
luster over all. Flowers large, dark pink in color, 
which increases the attractiveness of this excellent 
sort. Price, 10 cents. 
HAAGEANA 
lArge flowers of a creamy-white, -with just sufficient 
pink to give them a bright, cheerful glow; foliage 
bronzy-green above, red below. Price, 15 cents, 
ALBA PICTA 
Long, pointed, slender leaves, thickly spotted with 
silvery-white, foliage small .and elegant, lovely pink 
flowers. Price, 5 cents. 
The Ever-Blooming Begonia 
DEWDROP 
This is a grand variety with white flowers. Price, 
5 cents. 
FOLIOSA 
This is one of the most graceful of all the Begonias. 
The foliage is small and fleshy, has the smallest 
leaves of all the Begonias. Briglit pink flowers. Price, 
8 cents. 
ALBA PERFECTA GRANDIFLORA 
This variety closely resembles the well-known Be- 
gonia Rubra in foliage and grow'th, with beautiful pure 
-white blossoms. Price, 5 cents. 
MARGUERITE 
Leaves bronzyjgreen, somewhat resembling Metal- 
lica: large trusses of light rose-colored flowers. Price, 
® ®®"*®BEGONIA CORALLINA LUCERNA 
A superb new shrubby Begonia of the same type as 
the popular Coral Begonia, growing into shapely speci- 
mens two feet or more in lieight, and producing gigan- 
tic trusses of very large flowers of a bronzy-red color 
continuously from April to November. In the, autumn 
the seed vessels assume a yellowish tint, which con- 
trasts pleasantly with the red of the flowers. The 
foliage is very ornamental, being dotted with silvery- 
white, and with prettily serrated edges. Price, 25 
cents each. 
McBETHH 
Foliage fern-like, panicles of pure white flowers pro- 
duced in the greatest profusion. Price, 10 cents. 
New Begonia, VERNON 
This elegant new variety is of unusual merit as a 
bedding sort, flowering fully as freely when planted 
out as when grown as a pot plant. It begins flowering 
when first planted and continues throughout the whole 
se.ason until stopped by frost. Foli^e rich, glos^sy- 
green, often shaded deep bronze. Flowers at first 
opening are a deep red, changing to a beautiful clear 
rose in the fully open flower. It thrives everywhere 
and is destined to become one of the most popular of 
bedding plants. Price, 8 cents. 
ARGENTEA GUTTATA 
This beautiful sort has the silvery blotches of Alba 
Plcta and the grace and beauty of growth of Olbi^ 
It has purple-bronze leaves, oblong in shape, with 
silver markings, and is in. every way a most beautiful 
Begonia. It produces white flowers in bunches on 
ends of growth stems. Price, 5 cents. 
ROBUSTA 
The flower is composed of two wide and two narrow 
petals, the wide ones are bright rose, the petals are 
almost pure white, a distinct pink stripe in the center 
of each enlivened with golden anthers. Borne in clus- 
ters, and with the coral-red buds forms a most elegant 
and chaste appearance. Price, 5 cents. 
BEGONIA RUBRA 
One of the best Begonias In cultivation. Its dark, 
glossy-green leaves, combined with its free-flowering 
habit, make it one of the very best plants for house 
or conservatory decoration. The flowers are a scarlet- 
rose color. Price, 8 cents. 
PRESIDENT CARNOT 
A remarkably strong-growing variety of stiff, up- 
right habit, foliage large and somewhat in style of 
Begonia Rubra, but more than twice as large; upper 
side deep green, under side purplish-red; flowers beau- 
tiful coral-red, in large pendent panicles. Price, 10c. 
SANDERSONII 
(Coral Begonia.) 
One of the best flowering Begonias. The flowers 
are of a scarlet shade of crimson, borne in profusion 
for months at a time, leaves slightly edged with scar- 
let. Price, 10 cents. 
FUCHSOIDES COCCINEA 
Elegant free-blooming variety. It resembles Hy- 
brida Multiflora in growth. Flowers a bright scarlet. 
Price, 5 cents. 
WELTONIENSIS ALBA 
Foliage similar to McBethll, only a little larger. 
I.ovely white flowers and very abundant. An easy 
variety to gro-w'. Price, 10 cents. 
HTBRIDA MULTIFLORA 
This beautiful plant makes handsome specimens 
with Its graceful branches and pendulous flowers of 
bright rosy-pink. Very floriferous. Price, 5 cents. 
ZEBRINA 
Long pointed leaves, dark green. Has the decorative 
value of a Rex; floweis white. Price, 10 cents. 
DOUBLE TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS s'ngle 
season* Nothfng'can°exceed®tL'’br'imancy^’^of°^the'ir colore.^'^t tintsf the richness of 
fhefr w^v flowers the gorgeousne^ of their effect in masses, or Ihelr graceful appearance In beds or 
bo?der^ From t^he time the first blossom appears until all growth is stopped by frost, thp are never 
such blooms great waxy flowers from three to five inches across, borne in such pro- 
fusion thatThe rich glossy-gr™e^ foflage is almost hidden underneath the wealth of blossoms. On the ap- 
cold be taken up and the bulbs stored away in a warm place until spring, 
Sfhfi? thfv riiv bt sterte^^ planting in the garden. We have both double and single in five 
Slors red Th^^te orange p"nk and yellow. Price, started in pots to bloom, single, 10 cents each; three 
fSr S centerdouble, 15 cents each; two for 25 cents. Dry bulbs m mixed colors, five for 25 cents. 
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