. McGregor Brothers' wholesale price list of plants for florists for spring of 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. BEGONIA VERNON. This excellent variety is of unusual merit as a bedding sort; foliage rich glossy green, often shaded deep bronze, changing to a beautiful clear rose in the open flower. Price, 50 cents per dozen; $3 per hundred. BEGONIA PRESIDENT CARNOT. A remarkably strong growing variety, of stiff, upright habit; foliage large and somewhat in style of Begonia Rubra, but more than twice
. McGregor Brothers' wholesale price list of plants for florists for spring of 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) Ohio Springfield Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. BEGONIA VERNON. This excellent variety is of unusual merit as a bedding sort; foliage rich glossy green, often shaded deep bronze, changing to a beautiful clear rose in the open flower. Price, 50 cents per dozen; $3 per hundred. BEGONIA PRESIDENT CARNOT. A remarkably strong growing variety, of stiff, upright habit; foliage large and somewhat in style of Begonia Rubra, but more than twice as large; upper side deep green, under side purplish red, flowers beautiful coral-red, m large pend- ent panicles. Price, 60 cents per dozen; $4 per hundred. CRinSON-LEAVED BEGONIA, SANGUINEA. A showy variety, with very large leaves; upper side of which is a rich olive, under side crimson, and of a i)eculiar leather-like substance, dainty flowers, light rose to white. Price, 50 cents per dozen; $4 per hundred. BEGONIA RUBRA. One of the finest Begonias in cultivation. Its dark, glossy green leaves, combined with its free flowering habit, make it one of the very best plants for house or conservatory decoration. The flowers are a scarlet rose color. Price, 60 cents per dozenr $4 per hundred. BEGONIA M. DB LE5SEPS. A charming variety on the order of Argentea Guttata, the leaf being four times the size seen in that variety, while the silky texture is the same, and it is beautifully spotted with silver. A very strong, free growing variety that will succeed with any ordinary care, growing rapidly anfl seeding out quantities of leaves. Price, 50c per dozen; $4 per hundred. BEGONIA ERPORDIA. A sterling novelty for florists. Begonia Erfordia has«U the good qualities of the famous bedders, Vernon and Dew- drop, and is a novelty we can strongly recoisimend. It will stand the strong sun in summer, and is one mass of bloom from June until frost. It is also a very showy pot plant for spring
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