. Spring 1899. Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 22 THE STORRS & HARRISON CO.'S CATALOGUE BEGONIAS. There are very few plants that are better adapted to amateur cultivation than the Begonia. In fact we know of no other class of plants that will give anything like the amount of bloom the whole year round. Many of the varieties, especially those of the Vernon or Semperflorens type, rival even the Geranium in profusion of bloom when used as bed- ding pl
. Spring 1899. Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 22 THE STORRS & HARRISON CO.'S CATALOGUE BEGONIAS. There are very few plants that are better adapted to amateur cultivation than the Begonia. In fact we know of no other class of plants that will give anything like the amount of bloom the whole year round. Many of the varieties, especially those of the Vernon or Semperflorens type, rival even the Geranium in profusion of bloom when used as bed- ding plants in summer, and if potted and brought into the house in fall will continue to bloom all win- ter. FLOWERING MAXICATA AUREA. Manicata Aurea. Large, glossy leaves, beautifully blotched with creamy white, with carmine etch- ings in the mature leaves. Flowers delicate blush white on long stems. It is easily grown and is one of the finest ornamental foliage plants for the house imaginable. 20c. Argentea Guttata. A handsome foliage variety, pur- ple bronze leaves, oblong in shape, with silvery markings, white flowers. An excellent pot plant. Alba Picta. Leaves glossy green, thickly spotted with silvery white; flower white. Erfordia. One of the most prolific bloomers in the Begonia family; it is continually covered with clusters of its delicate rosy salmon flowers. An excellent variety for outdoor bedding, growing and blooming in our hot sun equal to the best bedding Geraniums, being a mass of bloom the whole season, and if lifted and potted before frost, will continue to flower all winter. Gilsoni. A strong upright grower with large smooth leaves that are sharply pointed and regularly toothed. Large racemes of double, rosy-white flowers. 15c. Goliath. A remarkably strong grower, of fine branching habit, making large showy plants 2l/i to 3 feet high in a single season. Flowers large, in large clusters on stiff stems, carrying them well above the foliage. Color, rosy wh
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