. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. committee would now give it an award of merit, oreven tolerate it upon an exhibition table, but as I saw it lastAugust, growing in a partial shade, bearing, abundant foliageas well as abundant blossoms, I thought it much more attrac-tive than a number of hybrids of good quality growing near it. No tuberous Begonia has finer foliage than , whoseleaves of bright green, veined with a much darker shade, havethe soft appearance of velvet, and, with the numerous brightyellow flowers, make a plant of great beauty. B.
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. committee would now give it an award of merit, oreven tolerate it upon an exhibition table, but as I saw it lastAugust, growing in a partial shade, bearing, abundant foliageas well as abundant blossoms, I thought it much more attrac-tive than a number of hybrids of good quality growing near it. No tuberous Begonia has finer foliage than , whoseleaves of bright green, veined with a much darker shade, havethe soft appearance of velvet, and, with the numerous brightyellow flowers, make a plant of great beauty. B. geranioidesis a species unlike any other, with its tall flower-stems, carry-ing a mass, of snow-white blossoms with yellow stamens, aris-ing from the fresh, green foliage. It comes into bloom laterthan many varieties and retains its beauty several weeks. No species can exceed B. Davisi in brightness. Excellentfor pot-culture or for the open ground, it forms a low, densetuft of leaves, surmounted nearly all summer by its scarlet December 23, 1891.] Garden and Forest. 607. Fig. 97.—A Hemlock Grove in Winter.—See page 601. 6o8 Garden and Forest. [Number 200. flowers. A variety of this has flowers of a shade whose rich-ness is not outshone by the Cardinal-flower. B. discolor, orEvansiana, has a beauty distinct from all others. Though itendures the sunvery well, it is most attractive in the shade,where its large red-veined leaves assume a deep blue-green,and its panicles of pink flowers retain their beauty a long octopetala, on the contrary, does better in the sun. Its un-derground portion is different from what we find in other spe-cies, being a stout, creeping rhizome, which, in the course ofa summer, will advance several inches, sending up leaves andflower-stalks throughout the season. This is a giant amongBegonias, for its light green, circular leaves are sometimesa foot across—a yard around—and its flower-stalks, rising tothe height of thirty inches, bear numer
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