Cultivar
B. ‘President Burelle’
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Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘President Burelle’
- Originator
- Lemoine
- Date of Origin
- 1875
- Place
- France
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Female Parent
- B. ‘Lemoinei’
- Male Parent
- B. boliviensis var. boliviensis
- Publication Reference
- RHB; WBHC-WW
- Article References
- The Gardeners' chronicle, v. 10, (1878); The Garden, v. 15, (1879); The Illustrated dictionary of gardening: edited by George Nicholson; J.W.H. Trail, and J. Garrett. London: L. Upcott Gill; 1887-1889. division 1: Page 169-179. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48616 The Gardener's Magazine V27, p. 411. 1884
Plant
- Description
- The Gardeners' chronicle, v. 10, (1878) B. President Burelle: This variety of tuberous Begonia is probably the best of those producing double flowers, at least, the flowers of this variety are the fullest and finest in shape of any which have come under our own observation. It was shown in very fine condition at the Crystal Palace Summer Show, by Messrs. Laing & Co., of the Stanstead Park Nursery, and was on that occasion awarded a First-class Certificate. It is of dwarfish habit, like Gloire de Nancy, and its large and full double flowers-the male flowers only being double are of a rich deep crimson-red, and remarkable for their regularity and symmetry of form. Altogether it is a very showy and attractive plant, one that is calculated to arrest the eye and Lo command admiration, alike from its richness of color and from the novelty of character which attaches to these double flowered varieties for, beautiful as they are, they are yet by no means common, a circumstance which is perhaps owing to the comparatively slow rate at which the individual varieties can be increased. Our illustration (fig. 35) was drawn from the plant shown as above referred to by Messrs. Laing & Co., who have made a specialty of the culture of this race of Begonias, some of which it may be noted are admirably adapted for greenhouse basket plants,; The Garden, v. 15, (1879) Last year I saw in the nurseries of Messrs. Laing & Co., Forest Hill, over 150 distinct varieties of these tuberous-rooted Begonias in pots. They were arranged in one house and comprised nearly all the sorts that are worthy of culture. Amongst them were: President Burelle and Louis Van Houtte the two last double-flowered kinds. ; President Burelle – double flower form, glowing red, tinted with scarlet, very free.
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