# Rosecroft Begonia Cardens, Point Loma, California # 
NOVELTIES 
SEEDLINCS OF CORALLINE LUCERNE 
Color descriptions from Ridgeway but the plants vary 
more than the descriptions indicate. 
These seedlings represent the first really successful 
effort to get variations from this justly popular tall grow¬ 
ing, almost ever blooming, hardy variety which, although 
we have never been able to find any authoritative data as 
to its origin, we believe to be a hybrid, as from seed we 
have never grown one plant the exact duplicate of the 
parent. Hand pollenization has been a failure so we have 
gathered hundreds of seedpods from plants growing in the 
midst of a multitude of other kinds and so obtained a 
small amount of fertile seed, from which came the below 
described and others at present merely numbered. 
A word as to nomenclature. We believe a name should 
have some indication as to the origin of its bearer, so as 
these trace back to Lucerne we have adopted the names 
of the Alpine Lakes for its descendants, thus we can at 
once identify any of them as belonging on the Lucerne 
family tree. 
Price $1.00 each, except where otherwise indicated; 
$5.00 for six of those priced at $1.00; only one of a kind 
to any one customer. There are but a few of any of these 
and we suggest substitution be allowed to prevent disap¬ 
pointment. 
BELLARCIO. Very smooth, medium dark ivy green leaf 
under burnt lake; bloom bright carmine; excellent 
habit, very distinctive. $2.00. 
SURETTA. Medium maple leaf of jade green varigated to 
coral pink, under pompeian red; bloom white flushed 
alizarine (light) pink; wonderful bushy habit; a dis¬ 
tinctive departure from type. $2.00. 
LUCENDRO. Very pointed leaf of yew green, heavily silver 
spotted with silver tips; bloom spinel red with white 
center to seedpod; excellent bushy habit. 
ZURICK. Leaf yew green under burnt lake; bloom thulite 
pink. 
CODELARCO. Leaf dark cress green heavily silver spotted 
under ox blood red; bloom light spinel pink; good 
branching habit. 
MACCIORE. Leaf deep dull yellow green, under burnt 
lake; bloom dark spinel red. 
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