Cultivar
B. ‘Nancy’
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Nancy’
- Originator
- M. Lemoine
- Date of Origin
- 1911
- Place
- Nancy
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Hiemalis
- Female Parent
- B. socotrana
- Male Parent
- B. baumannii
- Publication Reference
- C
- Article References
- Revue Horticole, Anne 1913; The Garden, v. 78, (1914)
Plant
- Description
- Revue Horticole, Anne 1913 Begonia Nancy: The Begonia Nancy, newcomer in the so interesting series of winter-blooming Begonias, is no stranger to the readers of the Revue Horticole, because this newspaper reported the appearance in its issue of 1st February 1913. It came to be presented for the first time to the National Horticultural Society, which awarded him a certificate of merit. It is, like the Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, put on the market twenty years ago by the house V. Lemoine and son, a hybrid of the B. socotrana (Female), probably pollinated by B. Baumannii. A tuberous species. fragrant flowers, not very widespread in crops, although its flowering is, however, a superb effect in the late season. The stems, rather short, are erect, of a bronze pink; the leaves which decorate them, supported by an amber-green petiole, are of good consistency, round or reniform, sometimes peltate, with slightly dentate edges, of a dark green. The inflorescences are borne by straight and solid stems rising vertically above the foliage, and emerging from all the axils of the leaves. They are regular dichotomous cymes, abundantly furnished with almost all male flowers, with four petals, the two very developed laterals, round in shape, and the two others wider than long; they are, in general, twice as large as those of B. Gloire de Lorraine, easily reaching 5 or 6 cm. of width, and much more on the young multiplications. They are of a deep carmine pink hue of carmine, with well-defined veins, and chromium yellow stamens. The female flowers, with five equal petals, appear in very small numbers at the end of the inflorescences. At first sight, this plant is distinguished from the Gloire de Lorraine by its more vigorous and taller growth, by the rigidity and the height of its vertical stems which surmount the foliage of their dome of flowers, the larger dimension of its flowers, and also by the delicate and light perfume that emerges from it and which is not without analogy with the attenuated odor of the rose. A six-month-old plant forms from the beginning of December a flowering tuft of 40 to 50 cm. height with a magnitude of about 30 cm. The last multiplications of the summer are less elevated, have the peduncles a little less filled with flowers, but these are much larger and of perfect form. Beginning in December, bloom attained its apogee in January and February. It can be prolonged by pinching until May and even later. The multiplication is carried out like that of the Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, with this difference that the cuttings of the branches cannot be started until the month of May, because before this time all the buds obtained after pinching start to bloom. Everything leads us to believe that, in all the jobs where the B. Gloire de Lorraine excels, the newcomer will not be inferior to him. From the information which has been furnished to us, B. Nancy will probably be put on the market in the autumn of 1914. - G. T. Grignan.; The Garden, v. 78, (1914) B. Nancy: By the courtesy of MM. Lemoine et fils, Nancy, I am, in receipt of a description and photograph of a new winter flowering Begonia which they think highly of and intend to put into commerce during the coming summer. As these raisers have given us so many fine varieties, including the universally popular Gloire de Lorraine, it is evident that their knowledge of these beautiful plants is considerable. The variety, which is named Nancy, was awarded a certificate of merit by the National Horticultural Society at France in January 1913, and a work of art at the Paris Autumn Exhibition in October of the same year. It is the result of a cross between B. socotrana and B. Baumannii, a tuberous, sweet-scented species from Bolivia. This new variety will flower from October to March. The leaves are round and peltate, and the flowers, produced well above the foliage, measure from 2 to 3½ inches in diameter. They are of a bright carmine rose, and are slightly scented. Although the male parent is a tuberous species, the hybrid does not produce tuberous root stocks, and there is no marked period of rest; in short, the variety Nancy may be given much the same treatment as Gloire de Lorraine. - H. P.
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