Color for the New Year

Agate invites you to start the year 2025 in color with tuberous begonias, taken from the Flore des serres et des jardins d'Europe (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, published by the famous horticulturist Louis Van Houtte in the mid-19th century.

Varieties of tuberous begonias (Van Houtte et al., 1880).

 

 

Source of the illustration: Van Houtte et al.  (1880). Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe. Annales générales d'horticulture (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, tome XXIII, 360 p.

This work, published in German, French and English, contains descriptions and figures of the rarest and most deserving plants newly introduced to mainland Europe and England, taken from Botanical magazine, Botanical register and Paxton's magazine of botany. It is enriched with historical, scientific, etymological, synonymic and horticultural notes, etc.

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