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The following begonias are available for immediate shipment. If you are interested 
in a begonia not mertioned, please contact 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 or. mail orders,) 
RHIZOMATOUS BEGCNIAS | 
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X Hooy Brown --- Zi.esanhenne hybrid, a miniature Fred Brown; chocolate brown, small, 
heart-shaped leeres; suitable for terrarium or indoor culture. 1,00 each. 
Bowera -- smail-leeved, suitsbia for the terrarium; leaves lettuce-green with 
black markings along the eige. where long hairs stand erect. 41.50 each. 
Boweri major -~- same as abcve, but larger in every way. $1.50 each. 
Brooks! Mottled Leaf -- chocclate brown, with light-.green veins, red-backed leaves 
to about 5 inches, Lovely clusters of white blooms, <A distinctive species 
from Mexico, $1.00 each, : 
Bunchi -- like Feasti (which follows) but edges of leaves have lobes. {31.00 each. 
conchaefolia -- eteate , spoonshapel leaves, green, 75¢ each, 
Feasti -— one of the sburdiest plants for indoor culture; the old-fashioned "beef- 
steak begonial. Cymes of oink flowers in spring. 75¢ each, 
X Green Skeezar -- my hybrid; grows campact like Skeezar but leaves green, $1.00 ea, 
hispidavillosa--lettuce-green leaves, long hair all over plant; fall blooming, 
with pink flowers; %1.00 each, 
X Immense-- a light-green leaved plant; pink flowers in clusters in winter, 75¢ ea. 
X Jimmie Decker —- Zlesenhernne hybrid: thick green leaves up to 18 inches in 
diameters pink flowers in spring and winter, $1.00 each, 
X Joe Hayden —- satiny black leaves, lobed, A beautiful Ziesenherine hybrid which 
has won prizes in many shows, $1.50 each, 
hydrocotylaefolia-~— minature, leaves up to 3 inches, growth similar to Feastii, 
Suitable for incoor terial culture. 75¢ each, 
MacGougalli -~ 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, 
manicata white cuff -- like manicata birt with greenish-white cuffs, {1,00 each. 
maniceta cristata -- like manicata but crested on edge of leaf. $1.50 each, 
manicata cristata aurea -- jike above, only with yellow spots on leaf. 2,00 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:S -- a hybrid group with thick leaves and tall flowers stems, 
Leaves lobed and marked with silver. Very satisfacbory house plant. $1.50 ea, 
Mexican No. 2u2, §$ -= green-leaved; clusters of white flowers, {$31.50 each, 
Mexican No, 1327 <= an unidentified plant with o1ive-green leaves with deep red 
back, An outstanding plant, $1.50 each, 
X Mrs, Townsand -- dark, blue-green star-shaped leaves, not deeply lobed. An old 
favorite for indoor culture. 75¢ each, 
nigricans -- light green star-type leaves with black along margin. 50¢ each. 
X Reichenheimi -~ star type; leaves with brownish cast, 75¢ each, 
pyramidalis -- Saunderbrucki type, but with light green leaves. 75¢ each. 
Spiral Feasti -- like the famous Beefstake Begonia but with the leaves spiraling 
up iike a snaii shell, $1.00 each, 
squarrosa --- leaves shaped like Feasbil, but with scaled stems and thin in texture 
& a lighter green, wnite flowers in clusters, 75¢ each, 
strigillosa -- light green with dark brown small markings; robust, good house plant, 
$1.00 each, 
X Saunderbrucki -- star type, leaves with black margins. 50¢ each. 
PTBSCUS BEGCNTAS 
Atv ivaa Species with long narrow thick leaves. New. $1.00 each. 
X Chiala -- dark green leaf with red underside, pink flowers; upright, stately 
growth, 75¢ eache 
X Corabel de feu -- small leafed with coral flowers, reminiscent of bedding 
type, but not one. Low growth. 75¢ each. 
foliosa -- smallest-leaved species with minute orange blossoms; used in baskets 
like maiden hair fern or can be staked up. 75¢ each. 
X Lady Waterlow -- a must in every collection; rugged, everblooming white. 50¢ each. 
X inuwalter -- my hybrid between incarnata and Mazae; growth and leaf similar to 
incarnata but very dark brown, 75¢ each. 
k multiflora rosea ~- a rugged plant with rose-colored flowers and very small 
leaves. 50¢ each, 
X¥ Thurstoni -- shiny, green leaves with brownish cast, red back. 50¢ each, 
wmdulata -- white flowers, light green leaves with wavy margin, eis upright 
growsh, 75¢ each, 
