# Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Lcma, California # 
MARIE LOUISE. Center and edge brownish black running 
into spots and blotches of pink purple, zone bright 
green heavily spotted with light grey green. 50 cents. 
A. D. DAVIS (Rosecroft) . Grey green with palmate center 
and narrow even border of greenish black. 50 cents. 
MRS. E. B. CLIFT. Wavy maple leaf dark green palmate 
fingers branching and running to edge in grass green, 
blotches of grey. Often flushed with purple. 
MIKADO. Very light silvery green, palmate center purple 
black, edge of center and border flushed pink purple. 
In old leaves and in strong light all of leaf is often 
flushed. $ 1.00. 
FIREFLUSH. Medium broad leaf of green with center and 
edge crimson, the whole covered with crimson hairs 
which makes the pushing leaves a brilliant plush. 
An old variety of German origin the right name of 
which is Furst Otto von Rothschild, or something 
like that. $ 1 .00. 
DREW (Rosecroft). Small center and edge light grass 
green, zone grey green so formed as to give a perfect 
illusion of one leaf placed over another. 
CHRETIEN. Soft and shiny leaf, center blackish brown, 
zone Indian lake, border blackish brown, color quite 
variable. 
INIMITABLE. Upright pointed leaf of sheeny tea green 
covered with coarse hairs of vinaceous purple, edge 
vinaceous purple with narrow indentations of helle¬ 
bore green. Alphonso is so similar as not to warrant 
a separate description. 
CRIMSON GLOW. Leaf finely stipuled with pea green 
on a brighter green, suffused center and border and 
on old leaves all over, with Dahlia purple strong 
metallic sheen. $1.00. 
MOUNTAIN HAZE (?). Very papillary leaf like a very 
close stipuling pea green, shading darker at center 
and edge, the whole suffused with purple. $2.00. 
SILVER QUEEN. Ground color gnaphalium green, palmate 
center and edges olive brown, grown in strong light 
a magenta overcast appears. 
REX—Small Leaves 
^■IMPERIALIS SMARAGDINA. Plush-like round leaf of 
cedar green. A delicate small plant requiring green¬ 
house care. $1.00. 
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