Dreer's garden book 1904 Dreer's garden book : 1904 dreersgardenbook1904henr Year: 1904 118 TUBEROUS- ROOTED BEGONIAS. This charming class of Begonias are perhaps the handsomest of all sum- mer-Howering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve much greater popularity. Improvements made in recent years in size, texture and coloring are really phenomenal, with flowers frequently measuiing from 4g to 6 inches across, and colors ranging from the purest white and tlie most delicate tints of pink, yellow and orange to the most intense scarlet and richest crimson, while the double-flowering sorts are
Dreer's garden book 1904 Dreer's garden book : 1904 dreersgardenbook1904henr Year: 1904 118 TUBEROUS- ROOTED BEGONIAS. This charming class of Begonias are perhaps the handsomest of all sum- mer-Howering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve much greater popularity. Improvements made in recent years in size, texture and coloring are really phenomenal, with flowers frequently measuiing from 4g to 6 inches across, and colors ranging from the purest white and tlie most delicate tints of pink, yellow and orange to the most intense scarlet and richest crimson, while the double-flowering sorts are perfect rosettes, full and double to the centre. Their culture is of the simplest, and, with the least regard for their require- ments will repay with an abundance and brilliancy of bloom not equalled by any other class of plants; they delight in a rich, mellow, well-drained soil, where they cm be liberally supplied with water, preferably in a posi- tion where they will be shaded from the direct rays of the sun during the hottest hour^ of the day, and will succeed equally well grown as pot plants for the conservatory or window garden. On the a]iproach of cold weather the tubers should be taken up, and, after drying, stored away in dry sand or similar in a cool place, free from frost until spring. SINGLE SORTS. Orange Yellow. Scarlet. Pink. White. Crimson. ]Octs. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100 Single, All Colors Mixed, 8 cts. each; 75 cis. per doz.; $ per 100. DOUBLE SORTS. Scarlet. White. Pink. Yellow. 20 cts. each ; $2 00 per doz. Double, All Colors flixed. 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. THE TWO GLORIOUS TUBEROUS=ROOTED BEGONIAS, Duke Zeppelin and Lafayette, Shown in colors on the back cover of this book, are described and offered on page 99.
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