• Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Loma, California • 
PAUL BRUANT. Very serrated bronzy foliage; blooms, 
pink in large clusters, early, very handsome when 
well grown. 
GILSONI. The only double in this class and it is more 
crested than double, thick stem, good branching 
habit, dark green leaves pointed and fluted, light 
pink blooms in large clusters; early, uncertain 
bloomer. $ 1 .00. 
VITAFOLIA. This is the name given us for a plant raised 
from seed sent from Mexico. The leaves are shiny 
green above rusty under, large and irregular heart 
shaped, tinted pink small flowers in large clusters. 
Early. 
MRS. W. KIMBALL. Upright stiff habit, foliage fluted 
and often silver spotted on brownish green. Blooms 
large and pink. 
RICINAFOLIA. Sends up enormous bronzy leaves on long 
thick hairy stems, from a procumbent fleshy root 
stock. Bloom stalks often four feet long with 
bunches of pink flowers a foot and a half across; 
wonderful tub plant and very hardy. 
FISCHERS RICINAFOLIA. A smaller plant with more 
pointed leaves. 
IMMENSE. Similar in type to Ricinafolia but with flatter 
greener leaves on shorter stems. 
MRS. MARY PEACE. A seedling of Ricinafolia with palm¬ 
ate leaves of very dark green ruffled on edges; 
blooms pale pink. $1 .00. 
RUBELLA. A medium grower of this type with leaves 
sprinkled with ruddy spots and very hairy; blooms 
pink. 
SUNDERBRUCKII. Called also Ricinafolia and Star; foli¬ 
age palmate, dark almost black, striped with lus¬ 
trous green, blooms pinky; early. 
N. B. There are a number of variations of these so- 
called STAR Begonias such as NIGRICANS, SEVEN 
and NINE POINTED, etc.; we do not list them be¬ 
cause on the same plant most of these leaf varia¬ 
tions will occur. 
^GUATAMALA. One of the so-called Star Begonias. 
Leaves typical green with dark brown spots, par¬ 
ticularly in young plants. 
FEASTII. The Beefsteak Begonia, very procumbent in 
habit, leaves dark green upper and red under, thick, 
shiny and round like a water lily pad; blooms light 
pink in clusters well above foliage; admirable for 
baskets and mounds. 
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