Year round Bloom with FIBROUS BEGONIAS 
Easy to Plant... Easy to, Grow ee 
Excellent for Garden or Pot Culture 
Tree Form 
LUGANO (Robinson): Beautiful Coraline Lucerne seedling with rich dark 
green leaves that are slightly smaller than those of the parent. A good 
branching type with deep pink blooms produced in great profusion. 
MARGUERITE: One of the easiest to grow, and one of the most popular. 
A dandy, upright grower, height 314 to 5 feet. The leaves are a bright glisten- 
ing green and slightly hairy. The gleaming iridescent shell-pink flowers 
are produced in great profusion for many months. 
WALLOW: One of the very best new things. A fine tall grower branching 
well. The long dark wavy leaves are carried perpendicularly, giving the 
plant great dignity and elegance. The flowers are white, produced in large 
erect clusters. 
Intermediate Growth 
DIGSWELLIANA: This is known at my nursery as “the bosses’ favorite.”” 
I'll have to admit it is my favorite. A wonderful, compact, very bushy plant. 
The leaves are almost as crinkly as holly leaves, and are a bright coppery- 
green that makes the plant really sparkle. Added to this is the profusion 
of iridescent pink bloom. It is one of those that everybody likes. Excellent 
as a house or garden subject, a year ’round bloomer. 
MEDORA: Here is an outstanding variety. It is medium tall and much 
branched. The beautiful deep green leaves are heavily spotted white. The 
flowers are a soft rose-pink. One of the types of which we can never get 
enough stock. 
ODORATA ALBA: Another popular one, because of the pure white, lemon 
scented flowers, which are produced the year around. Clean, dark green 
foliage. Stock limited. 
SACHSEN: Very bushy upright habit, foliage beautiful bronzy-green and 
spotted. Many blooms of soft shrimp-pink that blends well with the foliage. 
Stock always limited because of great demand. 
THURSTONII: This Begonia should be called Pink Cloud, for when it is 
in full bloom it reminds one of a lovely soft pink cloud. The great, upright 
clusters of beautiful pink blossoms are borne well above the dark bronzy- 
green foliage. Plant is naturally bushy and compact, with an average height 
of 3 to 314% feet. 
CREDNERI: Quite similar to Thurstonii, but more vigorous. Stems and 
leaves covered with hairs. Flowers slightly larger and deeper: pink. 

CORALLINE LUCERNE TEMPLINII 
In any collection of Begonias or in any gar- One of the finest begonias grown. This variety is so popular 
den, this variety will stand out as one of the with all who see it that try as we may we never seem to have 
most attractive. I consider it one of the show- enough stock to meet the demand. A thick stemmed branching 
iest of the Fibrous Begonias. The plant. is a variety with wavy leaves adroitly colored with yellow, white and 
sturdy grower with large, luxuriant, bronzy- red. Produces clusters of pink flowers very early in the spring. 
green foliage, and great clusters of bright, rosy- Plants in 3-inch pots, 25c each; plants in 4-inch pots, 40c each; 
red flowers. Specimen plants, many with flow- plants in 6-inch pots, $1.00 each. 
ers, each $1.00. Smaller plants, 3-inch pots, 25c si 
each; plants in 4-inch pots, 40c each. 
Timely Tips on Culture of 
Fibrous Begonias 
Begonias for the most part thrive best in a well 
drained, partially shaded location such as in a lath- 
house, a summer house or where they receive filtered 
sunlight from trees or tall growing shrubs. Oak leaf- 
mold, whenever that is obtainable, is the best founda- 
tion for your soil mix. If this is not obtainable use 
German or Swedish peat moss. The leafmold should be 
well rotted, and in a rather coarse condition, with 
some leaves in it about the size of one’s thumb nail. 
Mix up as follows: Two shovelfuls of leafmold or 
peatmoss, one shovelful of sandy loam, one shovelful 
of well rotted cow manure (by well rotted I mean 
at least eight months old), and to this add one 214- 
inch pot of cotton seed “meal, and one 4-inch pot of 
granulated charcoal. 
The plants may be potted or set in the garden in 
this soil. Begonias are not deep rooters, so a pocket 
of eight to twelve inches of the above is sufficient. 
Water well during hot weather, but do not drown the 
plants. They cannot stand having their roots in water. ” 
Occasional light feedings of cotton seed meal will help 
the growth and bloom. Should the soil get on the 
alkaline side, apply a small dose of aluminum sulphate, 
about one ounce to each square yard. 
Fibrous Begonia Prices 
Uniess otherwise marked, all of the Fibrous Begonias 
ire priced as follows: Plants in 3-inch pots, 20c each: 
planis in 4-inch pots, 35c each; specimen plants in 
larger containers, 50c to $5.00 each. 
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