. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. '—; #^ ~——fl- 1lENI^ADRffiRWIIADELPH^M-mOARDEN^»ORfEnHOUSf PWflTS i 119 BEQONIAS~"F'<*w®""S Varieties. We know of no plants belter adapted to amateur cultivation than these. As pot plants for summer or winter floweiing they have few equals. Three New Kloiiveriiig Beg^onias. Gloire de Lorraine. This is undoubtedly the greatest gem in winter-flowering Begonias yet introduced. It grows Irom 12
. Dreer's 1901 garden calendar. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. '—; #^ ~——fl- 1lENI^ADRffiRWIIADELPH^M-mOARDEN^»ORfEnHOUSf PWflTS i 119 BEQONIAS~"F'<*w®""S Varieties. We know of no plants belter adapted to amateur cultivation than these. As pot plants for summer or winter floweiing they have few equals. Three New Kloiiveriiig Beg^onias. Gloire de Lorraine. This is undoubtedly the greatest gem in winter-flowering Begonias yet introduced. It grows Irom 12 to 15 inches high, forming naturally graceful, bushy specimens, which, from October to April, are completely smothered with soft rosy pink flowers, and a plant that is destined to become very popular. Good young plants, 25 cts. each ; § per doz. Lii^ht Pink Lorraine. .V sport from the above, with flow- ers of a lighter shade ; the plant is of decidedly stronger growth and fully as free-flowering as the type. 25 cts. each ; $ per doz. Erecta Compacta Lorraine. Another sport which is identical with the type, except that it is of more compact habit and holds its flowers more erect. 25 cts. each ; $ per doz. Haag'eaua. One of the finest Begonias yet introduced. The flowers, which are of the largest size,'are of a creamy white, with just sufficient pink to give them a bright, cheerful glow ; the foli- age is a bronzy green above and red li)elow. Alba Picta. A pretty species, of compact growth ; the leaves are glossy green, freely spotted with bright, silvery white. Arg'entea Guttata. Foliage of rich green, spot- ted with silver. Metallica. A fine erect-growing variety, with dark, rough leaves; the surface is a lustrous bronze-green; veins depressed and dark red. Kllbra. Dark green leaves, flowers scarlet rose, glossy and wax-like. Saundersoni. Scarlet flowers, dwarf habit; in bloom continually. Seniperflorens G i g- a n t e a . Flowers brilliant carmine red, bor
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