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Burbank. 



The California Hybrid, with Giant Orchid-like Flowers. 



AT Last we have not <>iily a clear, beautiful, yellow flowered 

 ('anna, but also a (lower niagniik-ent in size— fully twice 

 a- large as Mme. CBOZYand similar kinds. This splendid planl 

 has been produced from seed b\ the well-known horticulturist, 

 Mr. Luther Burbank, of Sonoma, Co., Cal., originator of many 

 new and valuable fruits, flowers and vegetables! We made our 

 first trial of the plant in our greenhouses hist winter, hardly be- 

 lieving it possible thai a flower of such size had been secured, or 

 that it could be such a grand and almost pure yellow as described. 

 But when it flowered with us, we found that it. more than justi 

 fled Mr. Burbank's claims. The flowers are truly gigantic 

 in size, the three upper petals spreading fully 7 inches, and the 

 form, as shown by our painting, is really semi-double; toward 

 the inner part the lower petals show fine crimson spots; all the 

 rest of the flower is of a most beautiful rich canary yellow. 

 The plant is a very strong ".'rower, five to six feet high, with rich 

 preen leaves, very wide almost to the tips; its leaves are much 

 thicker than those of the ordinary Cannas, with a texture not 

 unlike the rubber plant. The colored plate has been painted 

 rrom growing plants, and shows the plant in true natural size. 

 Remembering that a growing clump of the Burbank often pro- 

 duces 15 to 20 ri.owF.n spikes, its lovely and striking appearance 

 i-.'in be imagined. We regret much that the foliage cannot be 

 shown in our pie tun'. This i 'anna would take a prominenl place 

 as a decorative plant, even if its grand trusses <<f everblooming 

 flowers were lacking. 



As a specimen decorative as well as a flowering plant for 

 the greenhouse or private conserva tory, it is the f in est novelty 

 in recent years. It makes a brilliant and constant show . flow- 

 ers quickly and freely. The plants art' easily produced in a short 

 time and at such trifling cost that they can be lavishly used for 

 house decorations at times when similar effects with expensive 

 plants would mean a great loss. 



Price, healthy, growing Plants, each, $1.00; 

 6 fine plants for S5.00. prepaid. 



SEEING IS BELIEVING. 

 Early last summer we sent trial plants to members of the Special 

 Canna Committee of the National Society of American Florists, 

 who test all the new (annas and report* officially on the same. 

 Their words carry the highest disinterested indorsement. 



Mr. James Dean, Chairman of that committee, and chief of 

 New York's horticultural display at the World's Fair, says: 

 '•Burbank is a new giant flowered' forerunner of a new class of 

 these beautiful flowers." 



Mr. D. ZiRNGiEBEL.of Needham, Mass., of the same Committee', 

 who tested it with all the best new ones, says: " Yellow Burbank 

 is the best yellow in cultivation now, very large flowers of a 

 handsome, bright shade of nearly pure yellow." 

 Mr. J. T. Temple, of Davenport, la., of this < !ommittee, says: 'I consider Bar bank one of the best of this year's novelties." 



J. \V. C. Deake, of Asheville, N. C, another member of this Committee, says, Aug. 27: "Our Canna Burbank is in full bloom, and such a beauty! As 

 mid some as an orchid, with petals 2% inches in diameter." 



Mr. Fred Kanst, head gardener of South Park, Chicago, and an expert judge of Cannas at the World's Fair, says: "The flowers were much admired in the 

 irk this summer. The foliage is like rubber; it is always good; you can't tear it." 



This novelty, proven by us for two years, is a clear, pure canary yellow with 

 no red markings, except a few faint red spots on the smallest lower petal. The 

 effect produced by a bed of it is a solid mass of pure yellow. In size, the flower 

 petals are 1% inches broad, the compact spike shows off well above the foliage, 

 (VAUGHAN'S NO. 1.) height 3 feet, foliage green. It has a remarkable habit of throwing out addi 



■ads from the main spike — often us many as six or seven. In the full sun it bleaches less than any yellow canna we have seen, owing 

 It is, in short, just the color and habit of plant which has been sought for the past five years, a pure "Yellow Crozy." 

 Price prepaid, March 15th delivery, from 3-inch pots, S2.00. Stock limited. 



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