. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. DKCt^lBKU 2it. IDlil The Horists^ Review 21 |««lI.^R BLOOMING BIG BEGONIAS \VINTER-FLOWERING BEGONIAS. Of the English Type. Tn order to {(ct ;i clearer niHlerstaiul- h'^ of the Hubjec't of wiiit(>r-tlo\veriii}^ K'fjonias, it may be necessary to know •; little of their history. Hegoniii socotrana, from wliicli the arge • llowcred, winter - liloomiiijr Ik? ?,'oniaH have been evolved, was intro- ?luced in 18fi0 from the islaiul of Socotra, in tlie Ked sua"; by I'rofessor Isaac liailey Balfour, of iMliiiburjrh, Scot
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. DKCt^lBKU 2it. IDlil The Horists^ Review 21 |««lI.^R BLOOMING BIG BEGONIAS \VINTER-FLOWERING BEGONIAS. Of the English Type. Tn order to {(ct ;i clearer niHlerstaiul- h'^ of the Hubjec't of wiiit(>r-tlo\veriii}^ K'fjonias, it may be necessary to know •; little of their history. Hegoniii socotrana, from wliicli the arge • llowcred, winter - liloomiiijr Ik? ?,'oniaH have been evolved, was intro- ?luced in 18fi0 from the islaiul of Socotra, in tlie Ked sua"; by I'rofessor Isaac liailey Balfour, of iMliiiburjrh, Scotland, .lolin Ileal, of James V'eitch & Sons, Chelsea, Enfjland, recognized the i)OHsi- bilities of this species for hybridizing ;md to liim belongs the honor of raising !lie first hybrids of the winter-flowering licgonia, which was the result of cross- ing U. socotrana with several large- llowered, tuberous-rooted varieties. The first of these varieties to receive recognition from the Royal Horti- cultural Society of England was the John Ileal, exhibited by James Veitch & Sons in 1885. Little was lieard of them again until 1902, when James \'eitch & Sons exhibited a group of these plants and about this time listed twelve varieties in their catalogue. In later years the work of hybridiza- tion was taken up by Clibraii's, Altrin- «ham, England, who now have more than fifty varieties listed in thi-ir cata- logue. Propagation. They can bo readily propagated at any time during their flowering season hy leaf or growth cuttings. In August or September a leaf will root in ai)ont two weeks, but this is not a desirable time, as the plants at this are developing tlieir flowering material, and the first growths from such cuttings are in form of lateral or flowering growths, after which tlie plant becomes dormant and will not start new growth until spring, whereas rooted in No- vember or December, when the jdants ? ire in full bloom, have spent all tliei
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