Cultivar
B. ‘Secretaire H. Vacherot’
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- Le Jardin. Paris: Librairie horticole du Jardin, 1887-1921. 1896: Page 267, Fig. 123 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35865 Our collaborator, M. P. Hariot, has reported in the minutes of the meeting of the National Society of Horticulture, the appearance of a new group of Begonias with foliage, presented by M. Cappe. If we call again the attention of our readers to these charming novelties, it is to bring out the truly distinct character of this new series which seems to us to have a certain resonance of what will be known. After the intensive number of beautiful varieties of Begonia rex successive seedlings, the series was believed to be exhausted, and several specialists had given up new seedlings, convinced that there was nothing to be found in any other. Was it not possible, however, to hope that the infusion of a new blood into the water, that is to say, that the growth of varieties in cultivation with a newly introduced species would produce distinct products of what was presented already? It is well known that the B. rex-discolor, B. rex-subpeltata and B. rex-diadema have been obtained and it is right to recognize the superiority of some of these hybrids on the old varieties of Begonia rex. Today we must see. Once again, that the last word is not said in obtaining the so-called ornamental foliage Begonias. The new series of B. rex-decora, although it is only at its beginning. seems indeed. Want to leave behind her all those who preceded her. the new appearance of the inverted varieties no longer allows us to recognize the stiff and generally heavy and ungracious foliage of the old B. rex from different varieties of B. rex and B. rex diadema crossed with B. decora, a new species. Introduced from Penang, by M.M. Veitch, these novelties are distinguished by a compact vegetation, generally very small and a foliage of small and medium size. more or less hairy, often laciniate and, therefore, very elegant. They possess collieries of a richness and disposition unknown up to the present day in the foliage Begonias, which may compare them to the Bertolonia, Sonerila, and other jewels of the vegetable kingdom; care and are not within everyone's reach. among the most interesting varieties of this series, we give below a description of the prettiest of the prettiest to be traded in the near future for their breeders, M. Cappe and Sons, horticulturists at Vesinet. Ami Chantrier - small foliage. laciniate, almost entirely pink satin with white veins on beautiful background; very nice variety. Mrs. H. Martinet - medium foliage, laciniate green background beautifully replenishing large white and pink dots with brown and white veins; very vigorous variety very elegant. Mrs. Emile Cappe - compact and very rustic; small foliage, laciniate, brown background with pink leaflets, smear of whitish stitches and patches with white veins on a light green background, the whole drawing resembling the foliage of a Sonerila; charming variety. Secretaire Henri Vacherot - Very elegant, medium-sized foliage with a light green background with large white dots with pink veins on a brown background and purple margins. Mme. Auguste Chantin - Leaves small, laciniate, of the same shape as B. Louis Cappe, but of a uniform shade of bright pink satin with carmine reflections in young leaves with white veins on a dark green background. President Albert Truffant - very distinct foliage, medium size, laciniate, green background. Black irregularly covered with slate and purple tones with reddish ribs. Secretaire D. Bois - Medium foliage undulates on the edges, of a pink uniform hue with red and bluish reflections, red and white veins on a brown background: a vigorous, compact variety. Mme. A Pernelle - Very curious and charming, brown background with gray and yellowish reflections, regularly springs of many white and pink dots with red and white veins. Gourlot, A.
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