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them. Shade them at first, but by degrees give them more and more 

 air and have them strong to plant out in June. 



C. Annei — Leaves green and glaucous, flowers orange yellow ; 

 one of the best. 



G. Feruvlana. — Grreen leaves and purple base, gigantic growth, 

 commonly attaining a height of seven feet. Flowers, scarlet rose. 

 One of the best both in respect of leaves and flowers. 



C. mitscefolia hijbrida. — Leaves green, of great breadth ; flowers 

 scarlet, A most noble habited and free-growing variety. 



C. limhata. — The hardiest of the green-leaved section, grows six 

 or more feet high, flowers scarlet and yellow. A large bed of this 

 has been left out five successive winters at Battersea Park. The bed 

 is covered during winter with two feet depth of straw. Every 

 amateur who grows Cannas should have it. 



C.floribunda. — A beautiful dwarf green-leaved kind, growing 

 only two and a half feet high, flowers deep rose colour. This makes 

 a beautiful edging to beds filled with the larger kinds. 



C. nigrescens. — Purple leaved and the darkest of all, flowers pur- 

 plish red. A grand variety for contrast. 



C. lAervalli. — Purple leaves and purple scarlet flowers. Most 

 magnificent. 



C. zebrina. — A hardy purple leaved variety, flowers vivid rose 

 colour. This may be left out all winter if covered with straw, and is 

 a good companion plant to C. limbata. 



C. Warsceificzii. — Purple leaves and red flowers ; the plant grows 

 two and a half feet high, and is a good companion to C. floribunda, 

 for edgings to large masses. 



C. raetalUca. — Purple leaves which are finely veined, flowers 

 scarlet. A truly grand variety. 



Unless the amateur have a most intensified love of Cannas, the 

 above will fully sufiice, and they are the best out of some hundreds 

 that I have seen and grown both here and on the Continent. 



01^ PLANTING STEAWBERRIES. 



BY J. DE JONGHE. 



jOME advise strawberries to be planted in the end of 

 August, or in September, or, better still, between the 

 1st and loth of October ; others prefer the months of 

 March or April. Those who advocate the former 

 period say that the plants put out in the end of 

 summer or beginning of autumn have time to establish themselves 

 in the soil before winter, and to gain sufficient strength to bear a 

 crop in the following summer.* This reasoning, it must be admitted, 

 appears plausible. The success of plantations made at tins season 

 depends, however, in a great measure, on the soil being well worked, 

 and in proper condition as regards moisture ; on the plants being 

 sufficiently strong and furnished with good roots, and on their being 

 carefuUy transplanted. I agree with the opinion of those who 

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