OUR BREEDING STOCK 
In order to keep our Begonias as near perfection as possible it is 
necessary to do considerable hybridizing each year, and we use for this 
purpose tubers which produced the finest plants and flowers the previous 
year. 
This stock, having been used once for breeding purposes, is then 
ready for sale, as the previous year’s hybrids will be ready for breeding 
next year. 
The pedigreed stock shown below was raised from seed of hand- 
pollenized flowers of the Rich strain. Although raised from seed sown 
last winter, these flowers, in August, were all 6 inches or more in diam¬ 
eter, and selected blooms of these were used in our 1938 breeding work. 
As will be seen by the picture, the quantity of tubers in this planting 
is quite limited, but the flowers were so fine that we have kept the tubers 
separate and offer them at $10.00 per dozen. They are all of the Camellia 
type, and, as there are only a few hundred of them, they will not last long. 
Orders will be filled in rotation as long as they last. 
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