# Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California • 
MOUNTAIN HAZE (?). Very papillary leaf like a very 
close stipuling pea green, shading darker at center 
and edge, the whole suffused with purple. $2.00. 
SILVER QUEEN. Ground color gnaphal ium green, palmate 
center and edges olive brown, grown in strong light 
a magenta overcast appears. 
REX—Small Leaves 
v IMPERIALIS SMARAGDINA. Plush-like round leaf of 
cedar green. A delicate small plant requiring green¬ 
house care. $1.00. 
:: SMARAGDINA MACULATA. Similar to Smaragdina in 
habit but with heavy blotches of darker green on 
leaves. $1.00. 
ILLUSTRATA. Small compact grower; leaf round with 
one point, rough and crepy tea green sunken mark¬ 
ings along veinings that make a regular network 
pattern. Excellent for small specimen or border 
effect. 50c. 
REX—Helix or Spiralled Type 
With the lobe of leaf curled round like a 
snail’s shell. 
($1 .00, $2.00 and up.) 
COUNT ADRIEN ERDODY. Beautifully spiralled, small 
palmate center greenish olive; body of leaf greenish 
glaucous fretted pattern on edge of emerald green 
shading to greenish olive. 
COUNTESS LOUISE ERDODY. Lobes very twisted and 
whole leaf in deep folds; body tea green, narrow 
marking of veining in forest green, edge flushed 
purple, the best known of all the Helix. 
IMPROVED ERDODY. Leaf ruffled and spiralled two or 
three deep folds, palmate center and border olivace¬ 
ous black, zone pea green. 
BRONZE KING. Leaf extremely ruffled and folded with 
spiralled lobes, center and narrow edge olive brown, 
main field oil green with indistinct lighter spots. 
CAPT. NEMO (a name given by Rosecroft lacking any 
other) . Leaf ruffled and spiralled with one or more 
deep folds, small center dull greenish black, main 
field pea green, well defined border of varleys green 
edged with dark olive. 
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