WILLIAM BULL & 80NS’ PLANT CATALOGUE. 
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BEGONIAS, 
Ornamental Foliag:ed. 
NEW REX-DECORA HYBRIDS. 
The following series of new liybrids are remarkable for the extreme beauty of 
foliage, the leaves presenting a wealth of rich coloration and markings hitherto not 
seen among Begonias. To obtain full development of the colours, the plants should 
be grown in the shade, and not exposed to full light. 
CHARLES OAMER, leaves of medium size, brownish green centre, surrounded with violet carmine 
and whitish markings with a zone of green speckled with white ; olive brown margin. 3«. 6rf. 
GLOIRE DES ARDENNES, of regular and compact growth, leaves ornamented with a large 
carmine zone, centre brown ; border bright green, speckled with numerous white and purple 
spots ; margin brown. 3-y. 6d. 
GOLIATH, a vigorous variety, centre brownish ‘green, surrounded by a broad whitish zone, tinted 
with violet carmine ; this has a narrow border of green, speckled with white and margined 
with reddish brown. 3». 6rf. 
LA FRANCE, a magriificent variety with large leaves brown in the centre, zoned with reddish 
violet, bordered with white and sunounded with a large green border ornamented with large 
spots ; margined purple brown. 3». 6d. 
M. ALBERT UAT7MENE, an elegant variety with smallish foliage, with the aspect of a mosaic 
silver and purple- brown in the centre, surrounded with a large zone of clear green, margined 
brown with numerous white spots, each carrying a small red hair. 3«. 6<f. 
MADAME DE STE. VALlfiRE, large shining leaves, with a large zone of reddish carmine 
bordered with numerous white and purple points with red hairs, margined dark green. 3s. 6d. 
M. DE STE. VALlilRE, centre velvety 
brown shaded with violet-purple, with a 
white zone surrounded with dark green, 
sprinkled with numerous white and 
purple spots ; margin reddish brown. 
3s. Gd. 
M» HENRI MARTINET, compact in habit, 
leaves reddish bronze with a small brow'u 
centre ; zone of dark green margined 
brown, and sprinkled with greyish white 
spots with red hairs. 3.?. Gd. 
REMILLY, milk white leaves washed with 
carmine ; brown centre surrounded with 
bright carmine border ; very pretty. 
3s. Gd. 
RENE GARRY-DESLOGES, the most beau- 
tiful of these pretty hybrids, producing 
immense leaves, the centre brownish 
black raying into the blade by the nerves ; 
a large zone of det^p vi<det surrounds the 
centre, and merges into vlevety brown 
border through a lace-like marking of 
greyish white and green. 5s. 
REVEREND LASCELLES, large leaf with 
brown centre shaded vdolet, surrounded 
with a large green zone spotted with 
white and margined violet brown. 3s. Gd 
BEGONIAS— Ornamental Foliagred 
lu handsome named varieties, 12s., 18s. and 30s. per dozen. 
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