Cultivar
B. ‘Normandie’
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. ‘Normandie’
- Date of Origin
- 1896
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Publication Reference
- GC; WBHC-WW
- Article References
- The Garden, v. 38, 1890
Plant
- Description
- The Garden, v. 38, 1890 New Double Begonias of 1890: As I have already recently described in THE GARDEN, the three best double yellow varieties of these most beautiful and free-blooming flowers, I hope that some further descriptive notes of the distinctive merits and beauties of some of the best of the forty new varieties which have flowered this autumn in my garden, and of other colors than yellow may not be unacceptable to the readers of THE GARDEN, though I cannot but feel that no words of mine can give anything but a faint and feeble idea of their most varied and exquisite loveliness. As I think that the varieties received from a lady raiser are in courtesy entitled to be first mentioned, I shall commence with five varieties received from Mlle. Marie Perrin, of Ecouche Orne, France, the first of which bears her own name, and is a, fine vigorous grower with large and very double creamy white flowers of great substance, and resembling those of the fine older variety Blanche Duval, but larger and finer. The second is named Normandie, and is, I think, the most beautiful variety I have yet seen. Its flowers are of the largest size and most perfect form, and of the loveliest shade of clear deep rose color, reminding one of those of the fine older variety Mme. Arnoult, but of a deeper shade of rose, and much larger size. The habit of growth is compact and relatively dwarf, and the flower-stems are stout and short, but barely able adequately to support the immense and very weighty blossoms which require the assistance of a small forked stick driven into the ground underneath them to show them off to full advantage. The third is named Caprice, and is a rapid and vigorous grower, but for the first half of the season, its flowers were thin and only semi- double, and so though of a most delicate shade of blush white shading to rose at the edges of the petals were somewhat disappointing, but towards the end of the season they improved, greatly both in size and doubleness, and became quite satisfactory and most beautiful. The fourth variety is named La France, and must by no means be confounded with the beautiful variety sent out by M. Crousse under same name, as it in nowise resembles it. It is a vigorous and strong grower, bearing very double flowers of immense size, great substance, and with most beautifully undulated edges to the petals; the center of the flower protrudes in the form of a bomb, and the color is the most delicate creamy shade of blush, altogether an exceedingly fine variety. The fifth variety is named Mme. Lelandais, and is of erect habit of growth, with the flowers borne on somewhat pendulous stalks. The form of the flowers is somewhat like that of Crousse’s older variety, Mme. de Sarjas, but larger and more fully double, and of a lovely deep rose color, shading to pink, most difficult quite accurately to describe, but a really charming and beautiful variety.
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Descendants
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