# Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California # 
LOW CROWING BRANCHING TYPE 
(25c, 50c and up, unless otherwise mentioned) 
WELTONIENSIS ROSEA. Semi-tuberous with pointed 
serrated small leaves, red stems and pink flowers, 
makes fine pot specimens; dormant in winter. 
WELTONIENSIS ALBA. Similar to above with white 
blooms and larger grower. 
McBETHII. Also commonly called Dewdrop, semi-tuber¬ 
ous, fine ferny foliage, white flowers, bushy in habit. 
McBETHI l-PINK (Rosecroft). Blooms tinted, foliage finer 
and plant generally more open than parent McBethii. 
50c. 
DRECEI. Like McBethii but foliage darker especially in 
center. 
■^Djlj^SON (Rosecroft). A seedling of Mc- 
rbut with larger foliage beautifully variegated 
white. $ 1.00. 
RICHARDSONI. Similar to McBethii but foliage longer 
and more feathery; likes shade, flowers white. 
SUTHERLAND! (SCHNITZERI) . An orange flowered 
form of these semi-tuberous, native of South Africa. 
35c. 
FOLIOSA. Very small leaved, foliage grows flat like a fern, 
flowers quite miniature, white borne in singles pen¬ 
dent. Takes the place of a fern in grouping. 
BERTHA VON LOTHRINCEN. Another possibly incorrect 
name. It has also been named to us as Pearl de 
Lorraine. A thick stemmed kind with smooth medium 
green foliage veined peculiarly in chocolate; winter 
bloomer, pink shaded. 50c. 
SAUNDERSII (SANDERSONI) . A low bushy grower with 
light green serrated foliage, blooms, a brilliant scarlet. 
NITIDA. A wonderful free blooming white, about two 
feet, flowers very dainty borne in large upright clus¬ 
ters, always in bloom; a splendid pot plant. (The 
description in some lists of Nitida is that we give to 
Odorata Rosea) . 
LUXURIANT or OLBIA. A small grower with woody 
stems, leaves a beautiful velvet green, shaped like 
the Lucerne group but much smaller, blooms greeny 
white in pendent clusters. 50c. 
ARTHUR MALLET. A very shy doer but when happy 
makes a wonderful plant with very dark speckled 
leaves suffused with pinky purple. Have never seen 
it in bloom. $2.00. 
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