57th Year—1877-1934—Innisfallen Greenhouses, Springfield, Ohio 
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BEGONIAS—Rex, Flowering, 
REX BEGONIAS —The broad leaves, high coloring 
and exquisite markings of Rex Begonias make them 
invaluable as decorative plants for house culture. 
Give them a soil composed of rich loam, woods 
earth and sharp sand. They require a warm, moist 
atmosphere and a shady situation. Do not allow 
the sun to strike the leaves while wet, and do not 
overwater. They may be planted in a shady situa¬ 
tion under trees or alongside of the house. Rex 
varieties make immense leaves. Choice named sorts 
as follows, at 25c each; 3 for 65c, or set of 8, 81.50. 
RODT. GEORGE —Silver center, dark margin, cut 
leaf; a fine variety. 
BERTHA McGREGOR —Like Robt. George, with 
deeper cuts; silver with dark green center and 
margin. 
LESONDII—Dark leaf, a fine and robust grower, 
silver spots on entire leaf. 
PEARL HUMFELDT —Like Lesondii except with 
silver spots on entire leaf. 
MISS SHEPHERD —Cut leaf, silver with dark 
green center and margin. 
CLEMENTINA —Dark bronze,, with silver spots; 
cut leaf. 
RUBRUM —Round leaf, silver tinted pink. 
VICTORIA —Almost all silver with bronze and 
green margin. 
FLOWERING BEGONIAS 
This beautiful class of plants is deservedly pop¬ 
ular. They are suitable for pot culture in the win¬ 
dow for winter blooming. We can furnish Flower¬ 
ing Begonias from 2y 2 -inch pots, 20c each; 12 for 
8^.00. EXCEPT WHERE NOTED. 
CHATELLAINE SUPREME —This Begonia is un¬ 
doubtedly the freest blooming variety known. It 
is of easy culture, low, bushy habit and literally 
covered the entire year with a wealth of bright pink 
flowers with yellow stamens. It well merits the 
name of Everblooming Begonia. 
CORALLINE LUCERNE (The Wonderful Flower¬ 
ing Begonia) —This Begonia has simply taken 
everybody who has seen it by storm. It certainly 
is a wonder. The blooms last from a month to six 
weeks, and are borne in immense clusters, almost 
hiding the plant. The color is bright coral-red, 
changing to a delicate pink. 
McBETHII —Shrubby in growth, with very deeply 
indented leaves, which are fine and small. Very 
free flowering, being constant the year round. A 
fine summer bedding plant if given light soil and 
perfect shade. Put it among your ferns. White 
flowers, waxy in texture, carried in panicles. 
EVANSIANA (Hardy Bedding Begonia) —This is 
a tuberous-rooted, herbaceous, hardy perennial 
Begonia, losing its tops in the fall. When bedded 
out, the bulbs remain in the soil and start new 
growth in the spring. The plants like a rich, por¬ 
ous soil and partial shade and will bloom through¬ 
out the summer. Produces clusters of flowers and 
buds of a beautiful pink color by the hundreds dur¬ 
ing an ordinary growing season. 15c each, or 4 for 
50c. 
BEEFSTEAK BEGONIA (Feastii) —A low spread¬ 
ing Begonia, with perfectly circular leaves, red be¬ 
neath, and dark, glossy green above, and of heavy 
texture. The finest pot Begonia we have for house 
culture. 
Beefsteak Begonia (Feastii) 
Tuberous Rooted and Hardy 
Rex Begonia—Bertha McGregor 
ARGENTEA GUTTATA— This beautiful sort has 
the silvery blotches of Alba Picta, the grace and 
beauty of growth of Olbia. It has purple-bronze 
leaves, oblong in shape, with silvery markings, and 
is in every way a most beautiful Begonia. Produces 
white flowers in bunches on ends of growth stems. 
Good for house culture. 
CRINKLED BEEFSTEAK BEGONIA —A new and 
valuable variety, distinctly different from any other 
sort. Beautifully arranged, magnificent crinkled, 
crested and curled, glazed, reddish olive green foli¬ 
age, topped by clusters of flesh pink flowers. Nice 
plants. 
HAAGEANA— Large trusses of creamy white 
flowers, suffused with pink, the foliage bold and at¬ 
tractive, of a bronze-green above and reddish on 
the under side. Best of its type. 
VENUS —A new and distinctly “different” Be¬ 
gonia. Its dark, glossy, bronze-green, deeply cut 
leaves combined with its free-flowering habit, make 
it one of the most attractive plants that can be 
grown. Blooms the year around. 
THURSTONI —The under side of the leaves is a 
rich purplish-red, the veinings very prominent, 
while the face or upper side is a, bronzy-green, 
shaded with crimson and olive, with a peculiar 
glossy metallic luster over all. Flowers rosy-white, 
in large clusters well above the foliage. 
GRACILIS LUMINOSA —(Red.) Strong and ro¬ 
bust. The most free-flowering of all Begonias, al¬ 
ways in bloom—spring, winter and autumn. The 
flowers, when first opening, are a bright cherry, 
changing to a clear coral-red. Its foliage is rich 
glossy green, often shaded deep bronze. 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIA 
For Single and Double Varieties 
Price 25c each 6 for 8L25 
The Tuberous-rooted Begonia is the fashionable 
plant of the day, and richly does it deserve its hon¬ 
ors, for in addition to very handsome foliage, it 
bears a never-ending profusion of the most ravish- 
ingly beautiful flowers the whole summer, and then 
with the coming of cold weather, very obligingly 
takes a nap until spring, asking no further care 
through the winter than to be packed in soil away 
from frost. The enormous size and intense bril¬ 
liancy of the flowers astonish those who have never 
seen any but the ordinary house Begonia. The 
bulbs can be started from March to June and will 
be in full bloom. Must be kept from direct sunshine. 
A good place for them is on the north side of a 
house or grape arbor. 
SINGLE —White, rose, scarlet. 
DOUBLE —White, salmon, rose, scarlet, 
