Cultivar
B. ‘Royal Standard’
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Royal Standard’
- Originator
- Chambers
- Date of Origin
- 1879
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Publication Reference
- GC; WBHC-WW
Plant
- Description
- The floral magazine; London, new ser. v. 6 (1877) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/173183 Begonia ‘Royal Standard’ - The tuberous-rooted Begonias are just now attracting a considerable amount of attention on the part of horticulturists. Mr. W. E. Gumbleton, Belgrove, Queenstown, Ireland, who has paid great attention to the cultivation of these beautiful flowers in the open ground, and to whom we were indebted for some valuable descriptive notes which appeared in our issue for September, has justly remarked that the tuberous-rooted Begonias ''are quite unequalled by any other plant whatever for affording an unbroken continuance of brilliant bloom from the middle of June till the middle of September in the open ground, and for a further month or six weeks after being lifted into pots for the greenhouse before they finally go to rest for the winter, towards the middle of November.'' A great number of new varieties have been raised of late, both at home and abroad; and the fine introduction, ‘Royal Standard’, now figured, is one of some splendid seedlings raised by Messrs. J. Laing and Co., Stanstead Park Nurseries, Forest Hill, S.E. The large, bold, stout and finely formed flowers are of a beautiful hue of crimson, most attractive in point of color. Its parentage is unknown, as Mr. Laing has not hitherto kept a record of the varieties from which his seedlings are derived; but he has used the finest forms in cultivation for seed purposes. These useful Begonias are likely to become as commonly grown as the Zonal Pelargonium.
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Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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