Begonias in Infinite Variety and Colour

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 43, 23 February 1944, Page 2

Begonias in Infinite Variety and Colour

MAKE CONTRIBUTION TO WORTHY CAUSE. ear by year the citizens of Palmerston North have been privileged through the courtesy of Mrs. F. J. Nathan, College Street, to share with her the glory of the begonias which at this time fill her spacious greenhouse with their beauty. This is a generous gesture to aid the funds of a worthy cause the Willard Home no less and tho begonias may be Inspected on Friday, Saturday and Sunday next. The “Times” had a pre-view and found many lovely specimens of infinite variety which are the pride and joy of Mr. J. Adamson, the gardener, who has had their care these many years. Some of the blooms are so large that one would provide the perfect adornment for “My Lady’s” corsage. Perhaps the first favourite will be the stately “Lady Ann,” a perfectly shaped bloom deep pink in colour with a rose centre, or “Pink Beauty” which has frilled petals, rivalling “Ruth Ward,’’ a blush pink, full petalled bloom. In marked contrast is “Prudence” supreme in her matchless white. “Irene” grown from a seedling, making her first appearance is white shaded to delicate pink “E. J. Henderson” flaunts rich crimson petals, and “Lambourn” a favourite of all growers, is deep apricot, “Florence Bigland” being another charm- ' ing example of this colour, while “F. C. Calthorp” provides the contrast again in vivid flame. “Madame Louise la Roque" claims distinction with cream petals edged with faint pink, also “Hilda Blake,” with shell-shaped petals shading from pale to blush pink, to mention a few of the exquisite specimens parading their beauty. Overhead the hanging baskets provide a show in themselves, this variety known as Lloydli with showers of starry gold, of pink to rose, buttercup, white and flame, a really decorative contribution. And in ; the cool depths of the greenhouse are masses of feathery fronds of maidenhair fern, the perfect complement.