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GARDENING. 



May is^ 



nished, and these cannas are all of the 

 old and now cheap sorts, but by no means 

 shelved by their more recent congeners, 

 and possibly not surpassed. If some of 

 your amateur readers will give them a 

 trial I can assure them that they will be 

 well repaid and I believe that you will 

 join me in the assurance. 



Those more or less interested in and 

 acquainted with these lovely plants wil 

 find many^ of the more recent ones superb. 

 With me last season, amongst many new 

 shades of red and crimson, F. K. Pierson, 

 Columbia and Flamingo were all of high 

 quality. Equally good amongst yellows 

 were Mr. Westwood's Florence Barker, 

 Antoine Wintzer's Golden Gem, and Pier- 

 son's Eldorado. The best of the new 

 golden banded ones were Queen Charlotte, 

 Souvenir d' Antoine Crozy and a free- 

 flowering lovely seedling of Wintzer's 

 named Fairy Queen. There are also sev- 

 eral first-class ones which I saw growing 

 on the grounds of my neighbor Mr. Denys 

 Zirngiebel last season, and which I now 

 see oftered in the catalogues, viz : Mme. 

 Bouvicr, Midway, P. J. Bercknians and 

 J. Wilkinson Elliott. Pierson's new ones. 

 Little Billee and Trilby, I hear highly 

 spoken of, but have not seen. Dammann's 

 Neapolitan phenomenons Italia and Aus- 

 tria are at present very expensive, their 

 value for general cultivation not fully 

 ascertained, and so can best be left this 

 season to experts and professionals, to 

 whom we owe so many fine novelties, 

 and who with many disappointments, 

 like the good knight Durandarte always 

 seem to "Have patience and shuffle the 

 cards." 



The amateur or even the tyro confining 

 his choice to the best of the old standard 

 sorts named above in numbers governed 

 by the room he has to spare will be re- 

 warded by a lovely display of flowers and 

 semi-tropical foliage throughout the en- 

 tire season, and taking up the clumps 

 after the plants are touched by frost, 

 without shaking the dirt from the roots 

 and storing in deep boxes on a cellar bot- 

 tom where the temperature does not fall 

 below 40°, with just enough water to 

 keep the earth from becoming absolutely 

 dry, will find on opening them out the 

 following spring that his riches have 

 vastly increased. With this treatment I 

 have not lost a canna in five years. 



West Koxbury, Mass. W. H. C. 



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