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BEGONIAS. 
BEOONIAS — Continued. 
SAZZIjE, bright reddish crimson ; a fine flower, with short broad petals. 
DRAGON, a beautiful flower, with very fine large long petals ; colour rich bright rose ; very effective. 
DR. MASTERS, a beautiful and effeetive variety, with very rieh camine-crimson drooping flowers, 
suspended on salmon-tinted pedicels or flower stalks. 
EMBLEM, a very attractive variety, giving fine large showy flowers with extremely broad petals, of 
a deep rose colour shaded with magenta. 
ENSIGN, bright pink ; a beautiful shade of colour ; flowers large and fine ; a very elegant variety. 
EXCELSIOR, a fine free-blooming variety, with fine large flowers of a bright cinnabar red colour. 
ERCEBELII, a splendid new species from Ecuador, very distinct and attractive, producing, well 
above the foliage, erect bunches of large brilliant scarlet flowers ; the foliage is of a bright green 
colour, furnished on the under side with a thick covering of white hairs. 
OEM, light cream colour, the reverse of the petals light pink ; extremely distinct and attractive. 
GLITTER, vivid orange scarlet ; an extremely bright and showy colour ; fine large flower. 
HERMINE, light orange cinnamon, a very distinct and attractive shade of colour ; a pretty flower ; 
large and well formed. 
INTERMEDIA, a fine hybrid, of free-branching strong upright growth ; the flowers are of the 
size and form of B. Veitcliii, wliich they also resemble in colour, but are of rather a darker shade. 
LOTHAIR, a splendid variety, producing fine large showy flowers, with short broad petals of a deep 
rose colour ; very fine. 
LDCINDA, an extremely attractive variety, producing very large and fine flowers, with remarkably 
long petals, of a deep rose colour. 
MAGNET, beautiful light pink, the reverse of the petals deep prink ; a charming variety, producing 
fine large flowers with good petals. 
MAZEPPA, very light cream colour, the reverse of the petals tinted with orange pink ; extremely 
distinct and pretty. 
METEOR, intense scarlet vennilion, very bright and showy ; a magnificent variety. 
MINIATA, a fine showy variety, producing flowers of a bright rosy carmine colour ; very elegant 
and distinct. 
MODEL, a free blooming variety of neat habit, with very finely-formed flowers of a delicate rosy 
blush colour. 
MRS. MASTERS, a very effective and ornamental variety, pirodueing bright rose carmine blooms in 
great profusion upon salmon -tinted drooping p)edieels or flower-stalks. 
OCTOPETALA, this magnificent species has been introduced from the Andes of Pern. It produces 
splendid flowers of enormous size, wliich are composed of eight petals ; these attractive blossoms are 
wliite, with the reverse of the petals of a bright rosy carmine colour. 
PEARCEI, flowers large, bright yellow, and borne on slender stems well above the foliage. 
PEARCEI GRANDIFLORA, a remarkably showy and attractive variety, with rich dark olive 
green leaves, which contrast admirably with tlie very large and fine flowers, which are of a bright 
golden yellow colour. 
PHYLLIS, a most beautiful variety, with blossoms of a delicate sulphur colour tinted with pink ; .an 
extremely distinct and charming flower. 
PROFESSOR THISELTON DYER, a highly ornamental variety, giving a pnofusion of hrilliant 
scarlet flowers, with lance-shaped petals borne in elegant drooping clusters. 
ROSEA ALBA, a very elegant variety, with glossy rich green veined leaves, and numerous terminal 
projecting racemes of white blossoms suffused with rich rose. 
RUBESCENS, a fine hybrid variety of neat robust branching dwarf habit, giving a profusion of 
elegant half-drooping racemes of large rich salmon-tinted red blossoms. 
RDBRA StrPERBA, a very beautiful and effective pdant of a free branching habit, and graceful 
open outline ; flowers large, of a brilliant carmine red, melting into a rich lake. 
SEDENI, a fine variety of free growth, with large leaves, the veins of which are slightly tinted with 
rose colour. The flowers are of the richest magenta coloui-, and of large size. Figured in WwFlorUit. 
SERAPH, a dwarf-gi'owing variety of neat and compact habit, freely p)roducing fine flowers of a soft 
pink colour, the extei'ior part of the two outer petals suffused with rose. 
STARLIGHT, a beautiful variety of dwarf compact habit, and a profuse bloomer ; the flowers are 
large and effective, of a pretty shade of blush pink. 
STELLA, fine showy flowers, of a beautiful shade of rosy crimson ; very attractive. 
SUNRISE, a magnificent variety, (puite intermediate between B. bolivicnsis and B. Sedeni ; it is a 
very free bloomer, producing fine large flowers of a bright rosy scarlet colour ; extremely showy and 
attractive. 
