INSTRUCTIONS 
Always buy the best stock available for you 
will not get choice plants or blooms from in- 
ferior tubers or seedlings. 
The principal erect types of double tuberous 
rooted begonias in a variety of colors are 
(1) Camellia, (2) Fimbriata Plena or carnation, 
(3) Camellia Picotee, (4) Rosebud, and (9) 
Ruffled. 
Lloydii Ede. or hanging basket types 
have the hanging habit and therefore are 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. 
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 occasionally 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, if done 
early in the season. 
PREPARATION FOR PLANTING 
When planting in pots, use eight-inch pots 
or larger for tubers an inch and a half or larger 
in size. Five to seven-inch pots are sufficiently 
large for three-quarter inch tubers or less. Since 
tuberous begonias are shallow rooted we sug- 
gest unglazed fern pans or unpainted redwood 
boxes as ideal. Glazed pots and painted boxes 
do not permit evaporation 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 
is windy. A moist atmosphere is essential for 
the best growth along with a temperature of 
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HOW TO PLANT 
The first requirement when using pots or 
boxes is to provide good drainage. Place a 
little gravel or broken pieces of pottery over 
drainage holes to prevent clogging. Then use 
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