B. ‘Camellia’

The Garden, v. 38, 1890 New Double Begonias of 1890: Three varieties were sent to me by Messrs. Laing, of Stanstead Park Nursery, Forest Hill, named ‘Lady, Goldsmid’, a most beautiful and perfectly formed flower, of great substance and most fully double, and of an uncommon shade of deep rose. ‘Camellia’, an upright growing variety with large, fully double, deep scarlet flowers, borne, unfortunately, on weak pendulous stalks, which necessitated the flowers being raised with the hand to see their beauty, when they closely resembled a fine flower of the handsome genus after which this variety is named. Duchess of Teck, a pale creamy-yellow of great substance, but which requires to be grown under glass, as in the open air it did not mature a single flower; while as shown at the show of the Royal Horticultural Society this summer in the Temple Gardens by its raisers it proved itself to be a most beautiful variety.

• Classification: Cultivar
• Plant Type: Tuberous
• Origin: Europe, England, UK
• Originator: J. Laing & Sons
• Date of Origin: 1883