Dreer's garden book 1905 Dreer's garden book : 1905 dreersgardenbook1905henr Year: 1905 IHENRrADREER-PHIIADEIiPHIAmmCARDIH^'GRfEtlHOUSfPWflTS This charming class of Begonias are perhaps the handsomest of all summer-Howering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve mucli greater popularity. Improvements made in recent years in size, texture ajid coloring are really phenomenal, with flow- ers frequently measuring from 4j to 6 inches across, and colors ranging from the purest wiiite and the most delicate tints of pink, yellow and orange to the most intense scarlet and richest crimson, while the do
Dreer's garden book 1905 Dreer's garden book : 1905 dreersgardenbook1905henr Year: 1905 IHENRrADREER-PHIIADEIiPHIAmmCARDIH^'GRfEtlHOUSfPWflTS This charming class of Begonias are perhaps the handsomest of all summer-Howering, tuberous-rooted plants, and deserve mucli greater popularity. Improvements made in recent years in size, texture ajid coloring are really phenomenal, with flow- ers frequently measuring from 4j to 6 inches across, and colors ranging from the purest wiiite and the most delicate tints of pink, yellow and orange to the most intense scarlet and richest crimson, while the double-flowering sorts are perfect rosettes, full and double to the centre. Their culture is of the simplest, and, with the least regard for their requirements, will repay with an abundance and brilliancy of bloom not equalled by any other class of plants ; they delight in a rich, mellow, well- drained soil, where they can be liberally supplied with water, preferably in a position where they will be shaded from the di- rect rays of the sun during the hottest hours of the day, and will succeed equally well grown a^ pot plants for the conserva- tory or window garden. On the approach of cold weather the tubers should be taken up, and, after drying, stored away in dry sand or similar material in a cool place, free from frost until spring. SINGLE SORTS. Scarlet, Pink, Orange. White. Crimson. Yellow, 10 cts. each ; |i,^\) per doz.; per lOO. Single, All Colors Mixed. 8 cts. each ; 75 ct-;. per doz.; $ per 100. DOUBLE SORTS. Scarlet, Whste. P3nk. Yellow. 20 cts. each ; $2 00 per do/,. Double, All Colors Mixed. 15 cts. each; | per doz. New Frilled Tuberous Begonias. We first offered this novel type in 1898 ; during the past six years the strain, by careful selection, has been wonderfully improved, until it is now unquestionably the finest of the tuberous-rooted section. The flowers are of large size, from 4 to 6 inches in diameter, with beautifully frilled and wavy petals, n
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