This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V26", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
According to Messrs. Haage & Schmidt, its introducers, this is a cross between B. semperflorens rosea and B. Schmidti, combining the good qualities of both parents. On account of its great profusion of bloom throughout the whole season it is decidedly the best bedding variety existing and may justly be called "incomparable." The color of the flowers being of a delicate pink does not suffer in the least by the inclemencies of the weather; it is always bright, may it be wet or dry, and this advantage renders it the more conspicuous and valuable. The leaves resemble those of B. Schmidti.

Begonia florida incomparabilis.
 
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