• Rosccroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California • 
ODD AND RARE KINDS 
DIADEMA. An upright grower with palmate serrated 
foliage heavily silver spotted—an old variety but 
rather difficult to grow. 50c. 
DIADEMA ERECTA. More like Palmata than Diadema 
but with foliage even more cut and white spotted 
rather than striped. $1.00. 
ATA) . Large palmate foliage striped 
ne like growth; very striking. $1.00. 
PALMIFOLIA. Large lobed green leaves on a fleshy stem, 
blooms white, in clusters. $1.00. 
LINDLEYANA. Similar to Palmifolia but leaves thinner 
in texture and carried flatter, all growth more 
refined. $ 1 .00. 
PELTATA. Low grower with peltate leaves, leaves and 
stems covered with a white fuzz, blooms white in 
clusters, quite unique. $1.00. 
LUXURIANS. This has also been named Sessilifolia but 
Luxurians is its name both at Kew and the Royal 
Botanic Cardens in Edinburgh. An upright grower 
almost a climber with huge palmate leaves carried like 
an umbrella, each section narrow and thin and at 
center of leaf a quite small ruffle of auxiliary leaves, 
blooms small white, in clusters. $2.00. 
*DAWN. A seedling of Abel Carriere with the same grey 
foliage but narrow pointed and small; would be a 
charming dwarf if not so delicate. 
*CATHAYANA. A Chinese species like an upright Rex. 
Leaf pointed very velvety, center and border dark 
ivy green with narrow stlpuled zone of glaucous 
green, under garnet brown, stems covered with pinky 
hairs. Not hardy. 
*GOGOENSIS. A low grower springing from a rhizome 
with peltate olive green mottled foliage. Most dis¬ 
tinctive, divided by veins just like a spider web. 
CALLA LILY. This should be VERNON VARIECATA as 
it is definitely a Vernon. Foliage very handsomely 
white variegated, the new growth coming out pure 
white like a miniature Calla. Must not be over 
watered. 50c. 
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