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ELLIS BBOTHEBS' OATALOQtUE. 
Masterpiece (Rex). Exceedingly highly colored, leaves having a pinkish metal- 
lic lustre, entire center being practically pink, with a very narrow outer edge of 
bronze-green. It is as highly colored as a sea conch, having a bright pinkish metallic 
lustre impossible to describe; exceedingly beautiful. Price 30 dts. 
Bertha McGregor. A splendid new seedling 
and one of the most beautiful fancy Begonias 
yet seen. A cross between the Rex and flower- 
ing section, showing a combination of coloring 
and great freedom of growth, together with fine 
habit, which will make it of great value to both 
amateur and florist. It grows readily under 
ordinary treatment. Leaf six by nine inches, 
long pointed and with six deep notches, produc- 
ing foliage in abundance: the center of leaf is 
small, dark and palm-shaped ; the body of leaf 
being solid silver, outlined with bronze; ele- 
gant. (See cut.) Price 25 dls. 
Pictaviense (Scharlliana X Metallica). This 
cross has produced a plant of fine habit, fine 
foliage and fine flower. The leaves are inter- 
mediate between the two parents, both in size and forfn ; the under side is a rich pur- 
plish red, the veining very prominent, and the face of the leaf a fine bronzy green. 
Price 15 <5ls. 
Mme. Lionnet. The ground color of the leaf is a rosy bronze, distinctly over- 
laid with a silvery-metallic lustre, the entire surface covered with crimson pile ; the 
best red-leaf Begonia on the list, being very brilliant in color. The flowers are 
bright pink. Price 25 as. 
Pres. Carnot (Rex). \'ery beautiful; strong, vigorous grower; light brown 
foliage beautifully marked, giving it the appearance of frosted silver over the larger 
part of the leaf. One of the most beautiful of the newer introductions. Price 25 as. 
Speculata. C^iite a novelty in 
Rex type. Leaves are in the form of 
a grape leaf. Color a bright green, 
with background of chocolate ; veins 
of light pea-green, the whole leaf 
spotted with silver. In bloom it is 
magnificent, the panicales composed of 
great numbers of individual pink 
blooms, are lifted high and spray-like, 
quite clear of the foliage. (See cfit.) 
Price 15 as. 
Countess Louise Erdody. The 
leaf, which has a metallic lustre, ap- 
pears dark silvery in the center, shad- 
ing into coppery rose toward the mar- 
gin, which is broadly and evenly 
edged with the same hue, but darker 
and more brilliant. The veins are yellowish green on both sides. The striking 
peculiarity, however, which distinguishes it from all other Begonias, consists in the 
fact that the two lobes at the base of the leaf do not grow side by side, but one of 
