# Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California # 
REX BEGONIAS 
(35c and up) 
Also called Painted-leaf from their vari-colored foliage. 
Ridgway’s color chart used in description. 
Large-leaved Typical Kinds 
PRESIDENT CARNOT. Round leaf, dark greenish olive 
with raised blotches of silver, very contrasty; an old 
favorite. $1.00. 
EMERALD GIANT. Large typical leaf, dusky olive green 
with pea green zone. 
LESOUDSII. Very large maple form of leaf, dusky olive 
green irregularly zoned and spotted with pea green. 
One of the hardiest. 
SILVER KING. Maple leaf of slate olive with silvery sheen. 
LORD PALMERSTON. Typical leaf, olivaceous black with 
large green zone and dark olive border stipuled with 
sage green. 
EDOUARD ERDODY. Round leaf of gnaphalium green 
with small palmate center of olivaceous black small 
ivy green markings around edge. 
QUEEN VICTORIA. Typical leaf, center and border oliva¬ 
ceous black heavily stipuled with pea green; zone pea 
green. 
MRS. JOHN B. (?) . Very large leaf of gnaphalium green 
with small olive palmate center, an irregular border 
of dark cress green with roundish spots of green with 
a red hair in the center of each. 
MAGNIFICA or KING OF THE REX. An immense leaf of 
olivaceous black with indistinct varying zone made 
by an overcasting of gnaphalium green. 
ROI FERD MAJOR. Very large long pointed leaf of pea 
green with palmate center of olivaceous black, edge 
color indented with markings of dark cress green. 
RAJAH. Rather long shaped leaf with lustrous black center 
overcast with purple, zone gnaphalium green over¬ 
cast with Daphne pink shading from center out, pink 
spots spilling into center and green spots into a border 
of dark dull yellow green edged with purplish black. 
$ 1 . 00 . 
CHILD’S NEW SPOTTED. Typical leaves a dark slate olive 
heavily spotted with small light spots. 
SILVER CLOUD. Grey green field palmate center and 
veined edge dull greenish black, stems and under, 
burnt lake. 
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