RK. & W. HACKETT 
Hawe for Sale— 
Kuberous Bez zonias. 
: This most beautiful class of handsome flowering plants has been wonderfully improved during the Jast few years. They are: 
invaluable for the decoration of the greenhouse or conservatory, where they mrCHehTA ser iter at dazzling agate Their eeee 
some large flowers, often measuring 4 inches in diameter, are of the most brilliantly varied and dulicately beautiful shades, fron the 
purest white to the deepest crimson, including yellow. bronze, rose and other intermediate shades. ‘These Begonias are also eminently: 
adapted for kedding, and are largely used in England and elsewhere for this purpose. 
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Single Tuberous Begonia]. 
Begonia International Prize 
Tubercus. Single and Double. 
An unrivalled strain, saved from 
the best felected blocms of the 
finest English, French and Gorman 
large-flowered hybrid varieties; of 
superior size form and colour. 
Sealed pkts., 2s, 6d. 
Begonia, Hybrida Marmorata 
fl. pl—The plants are of sturdy | 
habit and produce upright-stand- 
ing, very double flowers of great 
size (up to 44 inches in diameter), 
with beautifully spotted and mar- 
bled petals. When in full flower 
these robust free-blooming plants, 
with their ample dark green foliage 
are most attractive. 1s. 6d. pkt. 
Begonia, Single. Tuberous- 
rooted, choice mixed. 1s. pkt. 
Begonia, Double, Tuberous- 
rooted, choice mixed, 1s. 6d. pkt Begonia Marmorata fl. pl. 
sees 
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Gq ioximin. 
Greenhouse or stovehouse perennials of great beauty. The most lovely combj- 
nations of colour are found in their large campanulate flowers, which stand about 
6 inches above thick grand leaves of the finest silky or velvety texture. ‘Lhe seed is 
easily raised in a moist heat. Sow from September to December. They thrive in a 
warm, rather close atmosphere requiring plenty of moisture at the root, but little or 
no watering overhead, which is likely to vot the flowers and leaves. Avoid cold 
draughts of air, The soil must be light and rich. and well drained. 
Gloxinia, Hybrida Grandiflora Crassi- 
folia. Finest exhibition varieties. mixed 
colours. 1s. and 1s. 6d. pkt. 
Gloxinia, New French Tigred and 
Spotted Varieties. — Saved from a 
selection of the finest of these most 
beautiful varieties, of immense size and 
great substance, rich colours, 1s. 6d. pkt. 
Gloxinia, Defiance, “‘The Scarlet - 
Gloxinia.”’—Large erect flowers, glow- 
ing crimson scarlet; the edges of the 
petals are delicately frilled which adds 
considerably to their appearance, 1s. 6d. 
pkt. 
New Giant Gloxinia (Groxin1a Hypripa 
GiGAnT£A)—'This strain produces flowers 
of quite unusual dimensions. The seed 
is gathered only from strikingly beauti- 
fn) flowers, which measure 4} to 5 inches 
acivss, and the show of coloui thus pro- be 
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ee and varied in the extreme. J Gloxinin 
SEEDSMEN AND NURSERYMEN, 
“<> Feumdie Street, Adelaide. 
Teiephone 350. 
