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Qu? Rumbas. 
Amateurs everywhere, or the more pro¬ 
vident of them, are now making up their 
seed lists of flowers and vegetables, so 
that their gardens may be filled with the 
best of old-fashioned and gay- flowers, as 
well as the useful and necessary vege¬ 
tables. Those who have only small gar¬ 
dens in town or suburb have to be content 
with a few flowers, but many of our readers 
have large gardens in rural districts, and 
can grow vegetables extensively, and we 
envy their elbow room where they can put 
their opportunities to such excellent ac¬ 
count. 
Some of the flowers we bring to notice 
in this number are modern and improved 
representations of old favourites, round 
which many sentiments and endeared re¬ 
collections cluster. These may be re¬ 
garded as new varieties or new strains, 
and one or two are new to cultivation. 
Those who have plenty of garden space 
are delighted to make experiments upon 
some new-comer each year, and we bring 
one very showy annual to notice. 
It is difficult to find a really good vege¬ 
table new to cultivation, but the old ones 
continue to be improved from a utility 
point of view, and several of them we re¬ 
cord and illustrate. Many of the vege¬ 
tables grown for human food exist no¬ 
where else than as cultivated forms under 
the care of man. The varieties and strains 
we do possess would very soon degenerate 
if not kept up to the standard by constant 
selection of the best types. The same in¬ 
stability of plants gives rise to new and 
more valued types for man’s use, and we 
have to thank those workers and keen ob¬ 
servers who are ever on the alert to single 
out and propagate those vegetables'which 
are superior in some respect or other to 
those we already possess. 
The time is now right for committing 
many seeds to the soil, whether out of 
doors or under glass. It is important, 
therefore, to have the seeds on hand to 
take advantage of the soil when in suit¬ 
able condition as to dryness. This applies 
both to flowers and vegetable seeds. 
Sweet Peas we dealt with a month ago., 
and those who make their principal sow¬ 
ing in the open should not miss the first 
favourable opportunity of getting the 
seeds committed to the soil while in work¬ 
able condition. There is still ample time 
for the sowing of most of the ‘things we 
mention, and ample time to plant those 
which require to be dealt with in that 
way, whether in the open or in the case 
of those that require starting under glass. 
Tuber ous Begopia JVtillicept. 
The accompanying illustration repre¬ 
sents a new variety of tuberous Begonia 
which received an Award of Merit from 
the R. H.S. at the Temple Show in 1906. 
The flowers are of large size, with the 
broad, smooth petals of a beautiful rich 
flesh-pink colour, arranged round a single 
centre. The petals are of wonderful tex¬ 
ture, and looking at these highly refined 
flowers, it never ceases to be a ivonder as 
to the great improvement that has been 
accomplished in the hybridisation of 
tuberous Begonias. The flesh-pink colour 
is of rather an uncommon shade even in 
this variable race of plants. The type of 
flower represents the acme of perfection at 
the present time in the breeding of 
tuberous Begonias. The aim is to secure 
flowers of large size with numerous petals 
to fill up the centre, but these petals 
should be of good texture, rounded in out¬ 
line so as to form a beautiful, refined, 
smooth and attractive flower. 
It is one of the varieties put into com¬ 
merce last year for the first time by 
Messrs. Blackmore and Langdon, Twer- 
ton Hill Nursery, Bath. When they 
formed a partnership and commenced 
business on their own account some years 
ago, they already had a splendid strain 
with which to make a starts for Mr. Lang¬ 
don was gardener for many years to the 
Rev. Edwin Lascelles, -who was the lead¬ 
ing amateur raiser and grower of tuberous 
Begonias for many years while he resided 
a short distance from Bristol. 
We paid several visits to this fine col¬ 
lection, and had some of them illustrated 
at the time. An immense amount of pains 
was taken to secure seed from the very 
best parents—that is, those that had the 
largest, most shapely and refined flowers, 
and everyone rvho saw them, or had ac¬ 
knowledge of them,’ admitted that they 
were in the forefront of tuberous Begonias 
in those days. The fine strain they now 
possess, of course, had its origin in* those 
of which we speak, and the improvement 
has been continued ever since. 
The number of beautiful colours and 
refined flowers worthy of a name to be 
propagated by means of cuttings is now 
Tuberous Begonia Millicent. \Blackmore and Langdon. 
