NEW BEGONIAS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 39

NEW BEGONIAS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

At the Royal I bu t iciilt ural Society's fortnightly meeting held on December sth. there were ;• large number of groups of begonias. The most graceful type the small flowered Gloire de Lorraine, of which a hank of pink and white forms w.is M »nl by Mr. Gurney I'owlei iSouth Woodford). (-lory of ( iminnati. an im ploxcmeiit on the type in the size and bright nes% of the tlowers. won an award for Mr. ’ Lang< (Hampton*, and Mr. L Bruvkliau* (Twi kenhami staged the best plants in the show, considered a* indixidual specimen* of this xarietx and Mis L. de Rothschihl. Messrs. ( lihi ins i Alt rim-ham i secured an award of merit xxith \lt rim-ham Pink, a finely double bright pink xarietx xxith tlowers nearly Bin. in diameter. < h i x si nt heniunis were well *h »xvn bx’ Miser's. Well* . Mei -tham i. Mr. P Ladd* iSxxanleyi. and other*. The be*t of the dax'* nox cities (excluding the American xarietx. Patty, which failed to secure an award i was the pure white finely-formed

Mrs. David Syme, included by Messrs. Wells. This variety secured an award of merit. Mr. I*. Ladds also won an award with the “single” Isabel Grey, a large flower in which the bronze ground is lightly covered towards the centre with a sheen of purple.