O Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California # 
MRS. W. KIMBALL. Upright stiff habit, foliage fluted 
and often silver spotted on brownish green. Blooms 
large and pink. Wants protection. 
RICINAFOLIA. Sends up enormous bronzy leaves on long 
thick hairy stems from a procumbent fleshy root 
stock. Bloom stalks often four feet long with 
bunches of pink flowers a foot and a half across; 
wonderful tub plant and very hardy. 
FISCHERS RICINAFOLIA. A smaller plant with more 
pointed leaves. 
IMMENSE. Similar in type to Ricinafolia but with flatter 
greener leaves on shorter stems. 
MRS. MARY PEACE. A seedling of Ricinafolia with 
palmate leaves of very dark green ruffled on edges; 
blooms pale pink. $2.00. 
RUBELLA. A medium grower of this type with leaves 
sprinkled with ruddy spots and very hairy; blooms 
pink. 
SUNDERBRUCKII. Called also Ricinafolia and Star; foliage 
palmate, dark almost black, striped with lustrous 
green, blooms pinky; early. 
CUATAMALA. One of the so-called Star Begonias. Leaves 
typical green with dark brown spots, particularly in 
young plants. 
FEASTII. The Beefsteak Begonia, very procumbent in 
habit, leaves dark green upper and red under, thick, 
shiny and round like a water lily pad; blooms light 
pink in clusters well above foliage; admirable for 
baskets and mounds. 
There are also a HELIX type of Feastii with the 
lobes of the leaves spiralled and one known as the 
Upright Feastii or FLAMBEAU, that grows with a 
branching stem and blooms over a longer period. 
BUNCHII. A ruffled and crested form of Feastii. 
MRS. TOWNSEND. A very dark leaved sort in this group 
with a few points on foliage, blooms the largest of 
any pink with chocolate cast. 
MANICATA. Light green foliage, almost round with 
collars of red hairs on stems; blooms rose; very dainty. 
MANICATA AUREA. Similar to last but with yellow 
and white blotches on foliage. 
*MANICATA AUREA CRISTATA. Similar to last but 
with edges of leaves crested and ruffled. $2.00. 
SANCUINEA. A creeping or climbing sort with dark 
olive leathery foliage quite red under and stems; 
blooms white. $1.00. 
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