INSTRUCTIONS 
Always buy the best stock available for you 
will not get choice plants or blooms from 
inferior tubers or seedlings. 
The principal ‘erect types of double tuber- 
ous rooted begonias in a variety of colors 
are (1) Camellia, (2) Fimbriata Plena or car- 
nation, (3) Camellia Picotee, and (4) Rosebud. 
Lloydii Hybrids or hanging basket types 
have the hanging habit and therefore most 
suited to be grown in baskets, on walls or 
shelves so that one can look into the beautiful 
full clusters of blooms. Your garden is not 
complete without them. 
The Christmas begonia or winter blooming 
type is beautiful and most colorful at Christ- 
mas time., 
There are a number of other types as Giant 
Single, Single Crested, Single Frilled, Holly- 
hock (Martiana Specie) and Narcissiflora or 
datfodil. 
TUBERS 
To flower early, tubers should be laid out 
‘in empty trays or flats around the first or 
second week in February—keep them warm 
and moisten occassionally until the tubers start 
to sprout. It is better to keep them on the 
dry side rather than too wet. 
When the tubers have sprouted place in flats 
of moist leafmold or a mixture of leafmold and 
peat until the sprouts are three or four inches 
high. Give them plenty of room for root growth. 
The sprouted tubers are then ready to be 
transplanted for the season into pots, boxes, 
baskets or in the ground. The best flowers 
and growth develop from one shoot so it 
is in order to remove other shoots. (Except 
hanging basket types). To do so, use a razor 
blade, cutting close to the tuber. Plant the 
cutting in sand and you will duplicate the 
parent plant. It will bloom and form a tuber 
the first year. 
PREPARATION FOR PLANTING 
When planting in pots, use eight inch pots 
or larger for tubers an inch and a half or 
larger in sizé. Five to seven inch pots are 
sufficiently large for three-quarter inch tubers 
or less. Since tuberous begonias are shallow 
rooted we suggest unglazed fern pans or un- 
painted redwood boxes as ideal. Glazed pots 
and painted boxes do not permit avaporation 
to keep roots cool and therefore are not as 
satisfactory. 
When planting in the ground, partial shade, 
good drainage, loose soil and a quiet location 
is essential—begonias do not thrive where it 
Tubers are available ] 
