Cultivar
B. ‘Mrs. Lynch’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Mrs. Lynch’
- Originator
- Cannell
- Date of Origin
- 1888
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Place
- Woolwich
- Country
- England, UK
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Publication Reference
- JBSH
- Article References
- The Garden, v. 38, 1890
Plant
- Description
- The Garden, v. 38, 1890 New Double Begonias of 1890: An English raiser comes next Mr. Cannell, of Swanley, who also sent me five varieties, one of which, the splendid double yellow, Mrs. Jenkins, has been already described among the three best yellows. His other varieties were Beauty of Belgrove, which he asked me to give a name to when I first saw it as a young seedling plant, bearing its first flowers in a pot at the Home for Flowers at Swanley in 1888. This is, indeed, a most truly beautiful variety, and unlike any other that I know being, in fact, more like a Rose than a Begonia. Its flowers are of the largest size and finest substance, and of a deep shade of rose color, with a paler under-petal much resembling the lovely shading of the well-known Rose La France. Fine as thought this truly exquisite variety when I gave it its name in its childhood, in the autumn of 1888, it infinitely surpassed itself in size and beauty when grown in the open air. The next is named Mrs. Lynch, a lovely variety of dwarf and tufted habit of growth, producing large flowers with exquisitely crimped edges to the petals, and of a delicate shade of salmon pink; this variety was greatly admired by all visitors to my garden. The next variety was W. B. Miller, a stout, erect grower, producing medium-sized, fully double flowers of a pleasing creamy shade of color. The fifth variety was named Her Majesty, and is of upright growing habit, with most lovely, fully double, exquisitely formed flowers of a delicate shade of pale rosy blush, and the petals arranged like shells. Had this variety stouter footstalks to support its flowers it would be of first-class merit.
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