‘Adeline’ (‘Improved Darling’)—Free-blooming soft, single pink; green leaves.

‘Andy’—Deeper, more luminous pink flowers; green leaves.

‘Little Gem’—Double, rosy-pink flowers; very dark red leaves; small, slow-growing.

‘Pied Piper’—Baby pink, semidouble flowers, the crest sometimes touched with gold; bronzy leaves.

‘Snowdrop’—Smallest I’ve ever seen, has never topped three inches for me, just grows bushier and bushier. Double white flowers like minute snowballs; dark-red foliage.

tausendschoen (‘Thousand Beauties’)—A group of green-leaved, single-flowering dwarfs available in red, pink, or white. Easily grown from seed.

‘Winkie’—Fully double, old rose flowers; masses of dark leaves.

CARE. Partial sun, moderate warmth, average soil kept on the dry side.

PROPAGATION. Stem cuttings (best taken with a branch, so the plants will be self-branching), seeds (singles), division of root and crown.

MISCELLANEOUS FIBROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS