. Descriptive list of plants. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock; Plants, Ornamental; Flowers; Vegetables. 12 ELLIS BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. Countess Louise Erdody. This is the Begonia of all the Begonias, and a plant of unusual beauty and growth. The leaf, which has a metallic lustre, appears dark silvery in the center, shading into coppery rose toward the margin, which is broadly and evenly edged with the same hue, but darker and more brilliant. The veins are yellowish green on both sides. The striki
. Descriptive list of plants. Nursery stock New Hampshire Keene Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock; Plants, Ornamental; Flowers; Vegetables. 12 ELLIS BBOTHEBS' CATALOGUE. Countess Louise Erdody. This is the Begonia of all the Begonias, and a plant of unusual beauty and growth. The leaf, which has a metallic lustre, appears dark silvery in the center, shading into coppery rose toward the margin, which is broadly and evenly edged with the same hue, but darker and more brilliant. The veins are yellowish green on both sides. The striking peculiarity, however, which distinguishes it from all other Begonias, consists in the fact that the two lobes at the base of the leaf do not grow side by side, but one of them winds in a spiral-like way until in a full grown leaf there are four of these twists lying on the top of the leaf nearly two inches high. Price 15 cts. Metallica. A variety with a peculiar metallic-like lustre, -and charming rose- colored flowers ; a very worthy variety, combining both beauty of leaf and flower in the same plant. Winter flowering; extra. Price, 10 to 25 cts. Rex Varieties. A magnificent class of house plants, remarkable for the variety and beautiful markings of the foliage ; well adapted to vases and baskets in shady situations ; also very fine ornamental plants for window, but should be kept where it is warm and not too sunny. Price, older sorts, small plants, 15 cts. ; large, 25 to 50 cts. ; new and rare sorts, small plants, 25 cts. each. Souv. de F. Gaulain. A remarkably strong growing variety, of stiff, upright habit; foliage very large, somewhat in style of " B. Rubra," but more than twice as large; flowers beautiful coral red, in large pendant pinacles similar to " Rubra," but very much larger and finer. Price 15 cts. flowering sorts, this would be our choice. Its short sturdy growth, medium size thick heavy foliage, continuous and wonderful profusion of flowe
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