From American Gardening. Copyrighted, 189*. 
PLANT OF A DOUBLE-FLOWERED TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIA, GROWN WITH VERY 
LITTLE EXPOSURE TO THE SUN. 
Tuberous-rooted Begonias. 
The most important development in floriculture the past year has been the demonstration that tuberous-rooted 
begonias can be grown out-doors, with certainty of success, and that they require no more care than a bed of geraniums. 
It is a safe prediction that these begonias will soon obtain a popularity far beyond that of any bedding plant now grown, 
for they combine the continuous display and bloom of bedding plants with the rareness and delicate beauty of hot-house 
flowers. Indeed I know of no exotics, not even excepting orchids, that excite so much admiration and enthusiasm. They 
have every good quality ; the flowers are large and splendid with infinite variety of colors and shades, and are a constant 
mass of bloom from June until the frost cuts them down, when the tubers can be taken up and wintered in a cellar as 
easily as potatoes. Nothing finer can be had for the decoration of the conservatory and greenhouse, and under glass 
they may be had in bloom from April 1st until the 15th of November. For cut-flowers for home use they are superb ; 
there is a rare loveliness and uniqueness about their blossoms peculiarly their own, and they are so free-flowering that a 
large bed of them will give an abundant supply of flowers for cutting, without detracting from the bed’s picturesqueness. 
The foliage is also as varied as the flowers, and of a refinement and beauty rarely seen in plants that can be grown 
out-doors. 
I was first attracted by tuberous-rooted begonias in Europe six or seven years ago. Several plantsmen had large 
stocks of them under glass that were attracting great admiration, but the general impression there, as it is here to-day, 
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