The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
-rooted Begonias. 
We have much pleasure in offering roots of our grand strain of Tuberous- 
rooted hybrid Begonias, which have boon grown and selected at our Nurseries 
during the past season, and which for form, size and substance of flower, and 
beauty and variety of colouring will be found second to none in the country. 
The individual blooms of many of the single-flowered varieties are of immense 
size — often measuring four to five inches across — of splendid form and 
substance, and the colours range from the most intense dark crimson through 
all the shades of scarlet, salmon, cerise, and yellow to the purest white, the 
plants being of a flue dwarf sturdy habit of growth. They will bo found splendid 
for pot culture and for bedding out; much superior to Geraniums, as they 
continue in full bloom through the wettest season and late into the autumn, 
when Geraniums have but a poor appearance. The double-flowered also include 
some magnificent flowers, in an equal variety of colouring to the single. 
These, although not so showy and useful for bedding out as the single-flowered, 
are superb for pot culture in the greenhouse. 
SINGLE-FLOWERED. 
Crimson and Scarlet 
Rose and Carmine ... 
Pink and Salmon ... 
Primrose and Citron 
Pure white 
Extra choice mixed. Selected llowors 
Choice mixed. In beautiful variety... 
Mixed showy sorts 
Strong 
> Flowering 
Tubers 
per 100, 30s. 
per doz. 
s. d. 
7 6 
each, 
s. d. 
0 9 
0 9 
0 9 
0 9 
0 9 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED. 
Extra choice. Very fine selected flowers Strong 
Choice selected flowers. Very good > Flowering 
Mixed. In beautiful variety ... ... ) Tubers 
18 .0 
12 0 
9 0 
Tuberoses. 
These doliciously fragrant and exceedingly useful flowers are much more 
easily grown than is generally supposed, and will well repay the little trouble 
that is necessary to have them in perfection. For early forcing, pot singly 
into fivo or six-inch pots, as early in the season as the bulbs can be obtained, 
and plunge in a good moist heat, withholding water till the foliage makes its 
appearance, when water may be given abundantly till the flower-buds are 
formed, when they may be removed to the greenhouse or conservatory and 
less water given. For Autumn blooming, pot singly into five or six-inch pots 
in March or April, using a light rich compost, and plunge the pots about six 
inches above their rims in cocoa-nut fibre, coal ashes, or any light material, 
under the stage of a greenhouse or in a cool pit or frame ; when the foliage 
of these makes its appearance they should be removed and plunged under 
a south wall, removing them to the greenhouse or indoors as the flower-buds 
are formed. Dry roots may also be planted in sheltered places in the open 
ground, from the middle of April to the latter part of May, and will produce 
beautiful flowers in Autumn if taken up, potted, and kept in a close warm 
houso or pit for a few days when coming into flower, and will furnish a supply 
of valuable bloom in the greenhouse almost up to Christmas. 
per doz. 
Double American “Pearl.” Fine new dwarf variety s. d. 
from the United States; deliciously fragrant, with 
large double flowers, pure white ... per 100, 17s. 6d. 2 6 
,, African grown. Very fine roots „ 21s. 3 0 
each, 
s. d. 
Miscellaneous Bulbous-rooted Plants, &c. 
Bravoa Geminiflora (The Twin Flower). A beautiful little Summer and 
Autumn blooming, hardy bulbous-rooted plant, bearing erect spikes of 
rich scarlet oerise coral-like tubular flowers ; very pretty 
per doz. 5s. ; each Cd. 
Colchicum speeiosum. Beautiful large-flowered hardy plant from Asia 
Minor, producing noble. Crocus-like, bright rosy purple flowers in Autumn 
and having handsome foliage in Spring. Will thrive in any soil where 
undisturbed ; splendid for clumps on border por doz. 8s. ; each 9d. 
Schizostylis coccinea. A remarkably handsome, perfectly hardy, evergreen 
bulbous plant, with beautiful crimson-scarlet flowers per doz. 2s. Od.; each 3d. 
Sternbergia lutea (syn. Amaryllis lutea). A splendid hardy Autumn- 
flowering bulb, with yellow Crocus-like flowers per doz 3s. ; each 4d. 
Tigridia - Canariensis ) (Ti . per doz. 3s. ; each 4d. 
Pavonia ) p er ,J 0Z 2s. 6d. ; each 4d. 
Grandiflora alba. Creamy white, spotted with red, and having a violet 
centre ; a fine novelty, very beautiful ; quite hard)' per doz. 4s. ; each 6d. 
Tuberous 
DOUBLE BEGONIA. 
FroihT. H. ROBERTS, Esq.. Redhill. 
Nov. Kith. 
■‘All the Myrobella I had from you last year has done 
well." 
TUBtWObE— AMtKlOAN PfcAKL. 
From Dr. ROBERTS, Crouch End. 
Nov. 14th. 
"The Roses I had from you have doue exceedingly well. 
1 shall require Rome mote soon." 
