B. CRISPA CRISTATA . . . 
B. Crispa cristata. The male bloom has 
two large petals on the sides with the top 
and bottom ones somewhat smaller. All 
four look as if a person had taken several 
petals and shirred them together, then pasted 
them to the base of each petal giving a 
tufted or coxcomb effect. The blooms meas¬ 
ure three to five inches across in red, white, 
pink, yellow, copper and orange. Each 
bloom has the yellow ball center regardless 
of the petal color. 
B. GIANT DOUBLE . . . 
B. Giant double. These blooms run from 
four to seven inches across. Some are so 
double the solid round balls of velvet-like 
petals resemble a many petalled rose, others 
are like water lilies—all are very beautiful. 
The blossoms look wonderfully well in the 
modern fiat type table decoration. They will 
last 12 to 20 hours out of water without 
showing a great deal of wilt and so are 
particularly good as boutonnieres. Scarlet, 
crimson, rose, salmon, copper, white, orange, 
yellow. 
Tuberous begonias are particularly good to brighten an 
evergreen hedge or foundation planting of shrubs. Try them 
on the north side of the house or in porch boxes under the 
shade of awnings. An interesting pink and blue effect can be 
achieved by alternating begonia pendula and lobelia sap¬ 
phire along the front edge of such a box. 
LOWE'S 
GREENHOUSE 
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