# Rosecroft Begonia Gardens, Point Loma, California • 
BOLIVENSIS. Tall and branching with fuchsia-like scar¬ 
let blooms. From this came our Lloydii. 
^FROEBELLI. Single scarlet bearing its blooms in clus¬ 
ters. Winter bloomer, also from Ecuador. 
EVANSIANA. The easiest grown of all the tuberous 
woody branching stems and blooms in showers of 
light pink. One of the oldest and worthy of more 
attention. 
^•SOCOTRANA. Peltate leaves with single pink flowers, 
its root formed of cluster of small grain-like tubers 
round the main stem. One of the parents of our 
Winter bloomers Lorraine, Melior, etc. 
MARTIANA. Popular as the Hollyhock Begonia growth 
like a miniature hollyhock with mallow pink single 
blooms. Quite unlike any other tuberous even to the 
tuber which is round smooth and white. Native of 
Mexico. 50 cents. 
BEDDING TYPE 
These are low growing many flowered sorts used very 
widely and freely for outdoor bedding; they also make 
wonderful specimens if given the opportunity. 
The named varieties have become so numerous, in¬ 
creasing every year, and they are procurable either as 
seeds, which come readily, or plants, almost everywhere, 
that we do not attempt to list them by name, though we 
always have on hand a representative selection. 
WESTPORT BEAUTY. A charming low bushy grower 
with very double pink bloom. 
LEPIDOTA. A medium growing semperflorens, foliage 
blotched with yellow, bloom white. 
MRS. MARGARET HAM. Excellent winter flowering bed- 
der or pot plant; bloom spectrum red, leaf dark 
green turning darker in strong light, edge fringed 
and waved; splendid habit of growth. 
BIJOU DE JARDIN. The smallest of all, double red; 
delightful for favors in thumb pots. 
SCHMIDTII. A branching prostrate form with small 
white tinted blooms and bronzy fluted foliage. Good 
in baskets. 
Rosecroft also grows many plants that flourish under 
conditions similar to those Begonias enjoy, such as GLOX¬ 
INIAS, GESNERIA and ACHIMENES, and has a collection 
of over two hundred named varieties of FUCHSIAS. 
Ferns in variety. 
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