OE RUDOLF ZIESENHENNE 
Begonia Specialist 
1130 North Milpas Street 
Santa Barbara, California 
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The following begonias are available for immediate shipment. If you are interested 
in a begonia not mentioned, please write to me as I may be able to furnish it. 
Prices are at Santa Barbara, cash with order (i.e., parcel post or railway express 
charges must be added on mail orders.) 
RHIZOMATOUS BEGONTAS 
aridicaulis =—- new species from Mexico; small, green leaves with silver veins; 
excellent terrarium plant. $1.50 each. 
Boweri -~ small-leaved, suitable for the terrarium; leaves lettuce-green with 
black markings along the edge, where long hairs stand erect. $1.50 each. 
Boweri major -- same as above, but larger in every way. $1.50 each. 
Chimborazo ~- green peltate leaves, a bushy grower, $1.00 each, 
X Green Skeezar -- my hybrid; grows compact like Skeezar but leaves green. $1.00 each 
XGreen Zeebowman -- my hybrid; like Zeebowman but leaves entirely green. $1.00 each. 
hispidavillosa -- lettuce-green leaves, long hair all over plant; fall blooming, 
with pink flowers, (41.00 each, 
X Immense -- a light-green leaved plant; pink flowers in clusters in winter. 50¢ ea. 
Inglewood.X Barkeri ~- my hybrid; chocolate brown, lobed leaves; pink flowers 
im spring. $1.00 dach, 
X.dthiie Decker -- Ziesenhenne hybrid; thick green leaves up to 18 inches in 
diameter; pink flowers in, spring and winter. $1.00 ‘éucIN-- . 
X Joe Hayden -- satiny black leaves, lobed.--.A beautiful Ziesenhenne hybrid which 
has won prizes in many shows. Bl: 52 each, 
X Lettonica -- bronze, shallowly-lobed leaves. 75¢ each. 
MacDougalli -- large, deep-green, compound leaves; tall stems with greenish- 
white flowers, $1.00 each. 
manicata -~ thick green leaves with red cuffs on the stems; pink flowers in 
clusters in winter. $1.00 each, 
X Mexican Hybrid With Deep Pink Flowers --— undoubtedly a hybrid for it has not 
produced seed in 10 years, An excellent plant. $1.00 each, 
X Mexican No, 27.5 -- a hybrid group with thick leaves and tall flower stems, 
Leaves lobed and marked with silver. Very satisfactory. $1.50 each. 
Mexican No. 22.5 -- green-leaved; clusters of white flowers, $1.50 each. 
Mexican No. 1327 -~ an unidentified plant with olive-green leaves with deep red 
back, An outstanding plant. $1.50 each, 
nigricans -- light-green star-type leaves with black along margin. 50¢ each, 
X Reichenheimi -- star type; leaves with brownish cast. 50¢ each, 
Schulziana -- small leaves with whitish cast; white flowers, $1.00 each. 
X Silver Star -- again I have a few of this outstanding plant with the star-like 
leaves, marked silver, with green edges. A prize winner, Produced by Elsie 
M. Frey in my nursery during the war, $1.00 each. 
Spiral Feasti -~ like the famous Beefsteak Begonia but with the leaves spiraling 
up like a snail shell, $1.00 each. 
X Sunderbruchi -- star type, leaves with black margins, 50¢ each. 
X Zeebowman -- my hybrid between Liebmanni and Boweri -- a very compact plant with 
small leaves marked green and silver with long hairs on margin. $1.00 each. 
FIBROUS BEGONTAS 
Compta -- a tall grower with green leaves, eiiver veins. 50¢ each, 
cuculata -- similar to semperflorens but with white flowers, large stipules. 50¢. 
decandra -~ thick, stiff leaves on wiry stems. 75¢ each. 
diclata -- a beautiful hybrid between dichroa and undulata; flowers pihk, 75¢ each. 
Frieda Grant -- green, red backed leaves, similar to Mrs. W. A. Wallow but 
smaller, 75¢ each, 
Helen W. King -- cane type with bronzy, spotted leaves; pink flowers, 75¢ each, 
Holly Leaf -- Cuban species with holly-like leaves; flowers white. 50¢ each. 
Lady Waterlow -~- a must in every collection; rugged, everblooming white. 50¢ each. 
lobulata -~ tall growing; lobed, green leaves; flowers winter, white to pink. 75¢ 
Luwalter -- hybrid between incarnata and Mazae; growth and leaf similar to 
incarnata but very dark brown. 75¢ each, 
Macbethi -- semi-tuberous; small~leaved; flowers white. 50¢ each, 
Mme. Fanny Giron -- similar to incarnata but with beautiful, scarlet flowers, 
Makes good basket plant. $31.00 each. 
multiflora rosea -- a rugged plant with rose-colored flowers and very small 
leaves, 50¢ each, 
Orange Supreme -- cane-type; orange flowers. {1.00 each. 
Pet -- compact plant; low cane-like growth; pink flowers. 50¢ each, 
Shasta -- a cane type, tall grower, White flowers, {$1.00 each, 
Tewksbury Red Compta -- red flowers, leaves, and stems, 50¢ each, 
Thurstoni -- shiny, green leaves with brownish cast, red back. 50¢ each. 
Washington Street -- leaves like that of peach tree; succulent, thin grovth. 50¢. 
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