• Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Loma, California • 
LOW GROWING BRANCHING TYPE 
(25c, 50c and up, unless otherwise mentioned) 
WELTONIENSIS ROSEA. Semi-tuberous with pointed 
serrated small leaves, red stems and pink flowers, 
makes fine pot specimens; dormant in winter. 
WELTONIENSIS ALBA. Similar to above with white 
blooms and larger grower. 
McBETHII. Also commonly called Dewdrop, semi-tuber¬ 
ous, fine ferny foliage, white flowers, bushy in habit. 
Me BETH 11 - PI NK (Rosecroft) . Blooms tinted, foliage finer 
and plant generally more open than parent McBethii. 
PARVIFOLIA. Semi-tuberous like McBethii but softer 
and with less pronounced maple leaves, cress green 
with faint purple edge; bloom small white. Makes 
plant like a little tree. 
DREGEI. Like McBethii but foliage darker especially in 
center. 
•^RICHARD ROBINSON (Rosecroft) . A seedling of Mc¬ 
Bethii but with larger foliage beautifully variegated 
with white. 
RICHARDSONI. Similar to McBethii but foliage longer 
and more feathery; likes shade, flowers white. 
SUTHERLAND! (SCHNITZERI) . An orange flowered 
form of these semi-tuberous, native of South Africa. 
35c. 
FOLIOSA. Very small leaved, foliage grows flat like a fern, 
flowers quite miniature, white borne in singles pen¬ 
dent. Takes the place of a fern in grouping. 
BERTHA VON LOTHRINGEN. Another possibly incorrect 
name. It has also been named to us as Pearl de 
Lorraine. A thick stemmed kind with smooth medium 
green foliage veined peculiarly in chocolate; winter 
bloomer, pink shaded. 
SAUNDERSII (SANDERSON I) . A low bushy grower with 
light green serrated foliage, blooms, a brilliant scar¬ 
let. 
NITIDA. A wonderful free blooming white, about two 
feet, flowers very dainty borne in large upright clus¬ 
ters, always in bloom; splendid pot plant. (The 
description in some lists of Nitida is that we give to 
Odorata Rosea) . 
LUXURIANT or OLBIA. A small grower with woody 
stems, leaves a beautiful velvet green, shaped like 
the Lucerne group but much smaller, blooms greeny 
white in pendent clusters. 50c. 
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