BEGONIAS
NUMEROUS VARIETIES Begonia sempervirens, with its numerous sub-varieties, belongs to the fibrousrooted section. They are extensively used for bordering and bedding out purposes The past winter's exceptionally heavy frosts destroyed most of the plants that were left in the open ground. November is the best month to rearrange and replant beds and borders of these" flowering and foliage begonias from plants raised from seeds or divisions from plants taken up late in the autumn. The variety crimson bedder, a charming strain with crimson-russet foliage and glowing scarlet-crimson flowers, is one of the most attractive. Semperflorens nana compacta contains a good range of red, rose and white shades. Prima Donna flowers have clear rose shading to carmine, and luminosa fiery-scarlet flowers and reddish-bronze foliage. All make a splendid display with their numerous flowers and attractive foliage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)
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136BEGONIAS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)
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