The foliage is large and glossy with reddish 
veining combining well with the large brilliant 
flowers. The plant is stiffly upright. 
This variety has been introduced because of 
its startling new color and not as a general pur- 
pose plant. Although it stands heat rather well 
it has a tendency to woodiness and must be 
pinched heavily to induce branching. This is a 
variety with which to amaze the fancier but is 
not intended as a top drawer landscaping variety. 
CHIQUITA. This piant is a hanging-pot trailer 
exclusively. It has small crinkly, grass-green 
foliage which tumbles over hanging-pots in a 
many branched mass smothered with medium — 
double flowers of pale rosy orchid. The flowers 
resemble the older variety Pastel in coloring but 
they are larger and more open and the coloring 
is much crisper. 
The clean coloring of the pastel flowers, the 
green of the dense mat of foliage and the ab- 
sence of fading give Chiquita a unique quality. 
The plant is self branching and does not produce 
berries. Recommended for the more experienced 
who can wait a few extra weeks for results. 
BERKELEY. This one is a large-flowered, free 
blooming, vigorous variety. The opulent flowers 
of globular petalage and large recurved sepals 
hang in hundreds on a fast growing healthy plant. 
The flowers are basically brilliant Tyrian Rose 
but there is considerable seasonal variation in 
their coloring with marblings and edgings of 
varying intensity in the cooler season. The tube 
and sepals are paler than the petalage setting it 
off to advantage. 
We have introduced this one at the request of 
Mr. George Budgen to fulfill the requirements of 
of a good plant worthy of the name of our eastbay 
city, Berkeley, whose official flower is the 
fuchsia. 
Berkeley is a fuchsia for everyone, easy to 
grow, free, vigorous and showy in flower. 
PRICES OF ALL 1955 VARIETIES 
Metal gallon containers . . . $1.50 
24-inch pots are available early in the season. 
Small: “Plants 4.4.5 s3°: Bae. Geen 
Add 3% Sales Tax in California 
Add 34% % in San Francisco 
See general list for other prices and terms of sale. 
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