# Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California # 
TUBEROUS SECTION 
SINGLES in a whole range of color. 
FRILLED in all the tuberous colorings. 
CRESTED. Single blooms with a crested growth imposed 
on the petals in the form of a Maltese Cross. Mixed 
colors. 
CRISPA MARCINATA. Singles with crimped petals in 
yellow with red margin and white with carmine edge. 
NARCISSI FLORA. Male blooms formed like a single 
daffodil, in yellow, pink, red and shaded. 
DOUBLES in many colors and styles. 
FIMBRIATA PLENA. Very full double blooms with fring¬ 
ed petals like carnations; many colors. 
LLOYDII or hanging basket drooping habit with blooms 
in singles, doubles, cactus, rosette and button types 
and an immense range of color. Rosecroft has the 
reputation of possessing from its own raising the 
finest and most varied strain of this type anywhere 
and its double white Lady Blanche achieved an in¬ 
ternational reputation. 
TUBEROUS SPECIES 
PEARCEI. Very floriferous small sulphur yellow blooms, 
foliage dark mottled velvety green, excellent for 
bedding or borders. Native to Ecuador, and chief 
source of yellow in the tuberous family. 
BOLIVENSIS. Tall and branching with fuchsia like scar¬ 
let blooms. From this came our Lloydii. 
FROEBELLI. Single scarlet bearing its blooms in clusters. 
Winter bloomer, also from Ecuador. 
EVANSIANA. The easiest grown of all the tuberous 
woody branching stems and blooms in showers of 
light pink. One of the oldest and worthy of more 
attention. 
SOCOTRANA. Peltate leaves with single pink flowers, 
its root formed of cluster of small grain-like tubers 
round the main stem. One of the parents of our 
Winter bloomers Lorraine, Melior, etc. 
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