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the introduction to the florist trade of the FAIRY CARPET 
BEGONIA (Begonia Versicolor). About two years ago we re- 
ceived a small package of begonia plants from a collector in Cen- 
tral China. They were very badly dried out with no live leaves, 
only shrivelled rhizomes, however we pulled most of them through 
and two of them were Begonia Versicolor, the loveliest leaf we 
had ever seen, just what we had been looking for in our hybridiza- 
tion work. It reaches nearly maximum size in a 4-inch pot, blooms 
most of the year with the largest leaves under 5 inches. It seems 
to cross fairly well with other varieties and we now have flowering 
crosses with Rex, Cathayana, Socotrana, Gogoensis and Griffithi. 
The Cathayana crosses are lovely enough to warrant introduction 
as Cathaversi and definitely promise orange colored blooms on an 
improved Versicolor in the second or third generation. We have 
seedlings growing of Versicolor crossed with our double scented 
tuberous and hope we are one step closer to a double scented 
flower on a lovely leaved rhizomateous fibrous begonia. We have 
been working toward this end for many years and have produced 
some very lovely plants, the first hybrids ever grown between rex 
and tuberous — Fantasy, Pink Fairy—Imperialis x tuberous, Ever 
Red and Ever Pink-tuberous x Sunderbruckii with double male 
flowers to four inches diameter with evergreen fibrous growth. 
They are weak and finicky and really not of value except for 
further generations of breeding work. We do not plan to propa- 
gate any except Fantasy and Ever Red on a very limited scale. 
We will work more with Versicolor, as it is what we consider the 
ideal size and the most beautiful velvet leaf. We are concentrat- 
ing at present on the propagation of Begonia Versicolor in quantity 
and will have 20,000 ready to go by May 1st with thousands ready 
ROW. They BTONES lovely we feel they will -sell- well enough to 
finance the future breeding work that will be of great value to 
everyone interested in house plants. 
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Seslie (Woodri 
FAIRYLAND BEGONIA AND LILY GARDEN 
HARBOR, OREGON + PHONE: BROOKINGS, OREGON 2573 
THE FAIRYLAND 
LILY PROGRAM 
We have fifteen acres in lilies— 
about eight in Croft and seven in 
other varieties and hybrids. We will 
have for fall 1953 delivery at least: 
500 cases . . CROFT, 7” and up. 
200,000 ... bulbs planting stock. 
CROFT, 4”, 5”, and 6”. 
200 cases . . SPECIOSUM RUBRUM. 
7” and up. 
10 cases . . BEST—Speciosum Magnificum 
selection, 7” up. 
10 cases . . SPECIOSUM ALBUM, 6” up. 
10 cases .. AURATUM, 6” and up. 
15 cases ..§ CENTIFOLIUM and REGALE, 
6” and up. 
10 cases . . HENRYI, 6” and up. 
10 cases . . PARDALINUM GIGANTEUM, 
Flowering size. 
15 cases .. PARDALINUM GIGANTEUM 
HYBRIDS, Flowering size. 
10 cases . . BUTTERFLY —Shuksan Selec- 
tion, Flowering size. 
Small lots of other varieties and hybrids. 
We believe we can save you 
money and assure you top quality 
bulbs. If you are on the West Coast 
don't fail to see our planting. We 
are located Just 2% miles north of 
the California-Oregon line on high. 
way 101. We have three 30 x 100 
ft. greenhouses full of Begonias and 
Lilies. There will be over 50,000 
hybrid seedling lilies flower for the 
first time this summer. There will 
be lily blooms from Rubellum in 
May to Twinkle in October with 
the main Croft planting in mid July. 
We flowered one hybrid last 
summer that will definitely cut 
nearly half from the forcing time of 
Speciosum Rubrum and moves the 
flowering time over a month ahead 
in the field. We should do the same 
with the Easter Lilies when all of 
our seedlings bloom. 
We believe we are doing the most 
vital breeding work in America on 
lilies for garden and greenhouse. 
With your support in the sales of 
commercial stock of lilies and be- 
gonias we will have new varieties 
to cut half or more from forcing time 
of greenhouse lilies and add months 
to the season for outside cut flowers 
plus new colors. 
