• Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Loma, California • 
REX BEGONIAS 
(35c and up) 
Also called Painted-leaf from their vari-colored foliage. 
Ridgway's color chart used in description. 
Large-leaved Typical Kinds 
PRESIDENT CARNOT. Round leaf, dark greenish olive 
with raised blotches of silver, very contrasty; an old 
favorite. $ 1.00. 
EMERALD GIANT. Large typical leaf, dusky olive green 
with pea green zone. 
LESOUDSII. Very large maple form of leaf, dusky olive 
green irregularly zoned and spotted with pea green. 
One of the hardiest. 
LORD PALMERSTON. Typical leaf, olivaceous black with 
large green zone and dark olive border stipuled with 
sage green. 
EDOUARD ERDODY. Round leaf of gnaphalium green 
with small palmate center of olivaceous black small 
ivy green markings around edge. 
MRS. JOHN B. (?) . Very large leaf of gnaphalium green 
with small olive palmate center, an irregular border 
of dark cress green with roundish spots of green with 
a red hair in the center of each. 
MAGNIFICA or KING OF THE REX. An immense leaf of 
olivaceous black with indistinct varying zone made 
by an overcasting of gnaphalium green. 
RAJAH. Rather long shaped leaf with lustrous black 
center overcast with purple, zone gnaphalium green 
overcast with Daphne pink shading from center out, 
pink spots spilling into center and green spots into a 
border of dark dull yellow green edged with purplish 
black. $1.00. 
CHILD'S NEW SPOTTED. Typical leaves a dark slate olive 
heavily spotted with small light spots. 
SILVER CLOUD. Grey green field palmate center and 
veined edge dull greenish black, stems and under, 
burnt lake. 
PEARL DE PARIS. Large round creped leaf of gnaphalium 
green, lake under following veins. 
K. O. SESSIONS (Rosecroft) . Maple shaped center, zone 
quite regular greenish glaucous, border forest green, 
leaf long and pointed on strong tall stems; excep¬ 
tional grower. $1 .00. 
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