THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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The National Bedding Plant 



ADOPTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WASHINGTON 



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Lily- 

 Cannas 



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After exhaustive tests, 

 our National Government 

 at Wasliington, D. t'.. 

 planted in the most visited 

 grounds in the U. S. 

 (around the public build- 

 ings, as here shown) solid 

 beds of Olympic, Meteor, 

 Rosea gigantea, Gladiator, 

 Mrs. Alfred F. Conard and 

 other C. & J. sorts. My 

 rigid tests pur Governnieiit 

 has. for its own use. siitrd 

 out the "Largest and Best 

 Obtainable." 



-; ROSEA-<iltiANTKA 



.\t its National Conven- 

 tion at Minneapolis, .Au- 

 gust, 1913, the Society of 

 .American Florists & Or- 

 namental Horticulturists 

 gave foremost place to the 

 display of Conard & Jones 

 Cannas over all com- 

 petitors, mentioning espe- 

 cially Beacon, Blanche 

 W i n t z e r , Panama and 

 Olympic. These, with 

 others, formed a splendid 

 array that tarried otT higli- 

 est honors. 



These illustrations of large Canna beds bespeak more clearly than words the high favor in which our 

 Cannas are held by the Department of Agriculture and those in charge of l)eautifying the public grounds of our 

 Nation's, Capital. 



'-Mr. Gardener, have you ever thought how the C. & J. Cannas will help to bcautifv vour grounds' We will 

 be pleased to have you write us for information on the subject of Canna beds. 



THE CONARD £y JONES CO.. Canna Specinlists, WEST GROVE, PA. 



