Keywords: Beautify your homes (16163976317).jpg Miss Ella V Baines The Woman Florist Springfield Ohio <br> FLOWERING BEGONIAS <br> PRICE 10 Cents Each <br> The Ever-Blooming Begonia Dewdrop A grand variety <br> with white flowers <br> Alba Picta Long pointed slender leaves thickly spotted <br> with silvery white foliage small and elegant lovely pink <br> flowers <br> Bertha de Chateaurocher This is the freest flowering <br> Begonia I have It blooms the year round makes a handsome <br> window plant with its beautiful foliage and bright currant red <br> flowers <br> Decorus This is the white flowering Rubra Very similar <br> to it but with white flowers <br> Foliosa This is one of the most graceful of all the Begonias <br> The foliage is small and fleshy Has the smallest leaves of all <br> the Begonias Bright pink flowers <br> Fuchsoides Coccitiea Elegant free blooming variety It <br> resembles Hybrida Multiflora in growth Flowersabnght scar- <br> let <br> Hybrida Multiflora This beautiful plant makes handsome <br> specimens with its graceful branches and pendulous flowers of <br> bright rosy pink Very floriferous <br> Marguerita Leaves bronze green with purplish cast It <br> grows in round bushy form Very free flowering large trusses <br> of delicate cream and rose colored flowers <br> McBethii Shrubby in growth with very deeply indented <br> leaves which are fine and small Very free flowering being <br> constant the year round A fine Summer bedding plant if given <br> light soil and perfect shade Put it among your Ferns White <br> flowers waxy in texture Carried in panicles <br> President Carnot The leaves are smooth long pointed <br> and prettily blotched The body of the leaf is a dark green <br> studded with bright silvery spots Covered with handsome <br> rosy white flowers A splendid house Begonia being of quick <br> growth and having both handsome flowers and foliage makes it <br> very desirable <br> Rubra If you can have only one Begonia let it be a Rubra It <br> is so fast growing that it will in a year or two reach the top of <br> your window sending up heavy stiff canes an inch in diameter <br> and rising beside them will grow strong slender branches <br> gracefully drooping under heavy waxen leaves and pendent <br> panicles of coral colored flowers as large as a hand Medium <br> sized plants are frequently seen with more than twenty such <br> panicles at a time Among the individual flowers you will find <br> three distinct forms growing side by side <br> Robusta Bright rose and pure white Coral red buds This <br> is a very desirable variety <br> Sandersouii The Coral Begom'a One of the best flowering <br> Begonias The flowers are of a scarlet shade of crimson borne <br> in profusion for months at a time Resembles coral <br> Washingtonii This is a vigorous growing variety with <br> tropical foliage Klegant panicles of pure white flowers thrown <br> well above the foliage <br> Zebrina The Zebra Begonia Leaves bronzy green with <br> darker stripes and blotches Underside deep crimson <br> BEGONIA REX or KING OF BEGONIAS <br> Far outshowing all others It seems to feed on the rich met- <br> als o e the soil and spreads their lustrous tints over its leaves <br> Give them a soil composed of rich loam woods earth and sharp <br> sand They require a warm atmosphere and shady situation <br> Suitable for wardian cases Do not allow the sun to strike the <br> leaves while wet and do not overwater I have twentv -five <br> leading and distinct kinds They are the handsomest of all Be- <br> gonias and most admired by all Try a set and see how pretty <br> they are I will furnish them for 15 cents each or two for <br> 25 cents <br> TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS <br> These are <br> among the very <br> handsomest lof <br> my Summer <br> blooming <br> plants flower- <br> ing throughout <br> the season and <br> as fine and va- <br> ried in their <br> colors as t h e <br> Geranium fam- <br> ily They are <br> splendid bed- <br> ders delight- <br> ing in a light <br> soil of woods <br> earth very old cow manure <br> and sharp'sand See that the <br> bed is in partial shade and <br> you will be delighted with <br> the results In the South or <br> where they cannot be planted <br> in the shade of a house a <br> covering of burlap or can- <br> vas some six or eight feet <br> above them merely to throw <br> off the sun's rays will allow <br> them to come to absolute per- <br> fection but they must have <br> plenty of light and air Do <br> not allow them to become dry <br> During hot weather they will <br> take two waterings a day <br> When through flowering they <br> can be dried off shaken free <br> of earth wrapped in cotton until February or March when <br> they may be started again <br> Single White yellow crimson rose scarlet 15 cents <br> each; two for 25 cents <br> Double In the same colors 30 cents each; two for 50 <br> cents <br> CAMELLIA JAPONICA <br> This is the Famous Japonica of the South <br> Leaves glossy green <br> flowers of exquisite <br> beauty and waxy tex- <br> ture From pure <br> white to crimson in <br> almost endless va- <br> riegation the pure <br> white ones generally <br> prized above the col- <br> ored varieties Cul- <br> ture nearly related <br> to that of the Azalea <br> but their success is <br> more certain Re- <br> quires shade and <br> moisture throughout <br> thehotseason Time <br> of blooming is in <br> Winter and in early <br> Spring Requires a <br> moderate and uni- <br> form temperature <br> with aslittleartificial <br> heat as possible <br> When set with flower <br> buds great care must <br> be taken in watering <br> when left too dry <br> the buds are sure to <br> drop I have a <br> Price for large <br> half feet high <br> CAMELLIA JAPONICA <br> fine assortment of those named below <br> strong plants two to two-and- <br> Imsliy 75 cents each The set of eight distinct kinds <br> for 5 00; any four for 2 50 <br> Alba Plena - Double white very fine the best white <br> Lady Hume's Blush Flesh color Extra fine <br> Sarah Frost Bright crimson Fine <br> Queen of Denmark Salmon rose fine form <br> Americana Blush mottled with rose <br> Caleb Cope Clear blush rose One of the best <br> Fimbriata Clear white with the petals finely fimbriated <br> Jennie Lind White with pink stripes 41878702 131125 64689 Page 5 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/41878702 1918 10 1080/00222939708680643 Ella V Baines Firm ; Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection NameFound Begonia NameConfirmed Begonia aff palmata GBG 002-089-95 EOLID 11904651 NameFound Begonia rex NameConfirmed Begonia rex EOLID 2875984 NameBankID 5826035 NameFound Camellia japonica NameConfirmed Camellia japonica EOLID 484988 NameBankID 2670149 NameFound Hybrida NameConfirmed Hybrida NameBankID 5327990 NameFound Multiflora NameConfirmed Multiflora Small J M MacDougal Feuillet supersect NameBankID 9260529 NameFound Picta NameConfirmed Picta NameBankID 5100567 NameFound Robusta NameConfirmed Robusta NameBankID 4332975 NameFound Zebrina NameConfirmed Zebrina EOLID 2528548 NameBankID 464523 Biodiversity Heritage Library Beautify your homes 1901 Garden Stories Bulbs Plants Catalogs Flowers Plants Ornamental Roses Seed industry and trade Seeds Trade catalogs U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 41878702 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/41878702 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-23 Check categories 2015 August 24 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16163976317 2015-08-24 08 50 49 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Beautify your homes Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script |