BEDDING PLANTS. 



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add greatly to the beauty of any part of a bed that they 

 emphasize. Cannas should be always used in considerable 

 masses. 



The\' are tuberous-rooted and not hardy, and these 

 tubers should be taken up and kept through the winter in 

 a dry cellar or greenhouse where the frost can be kept out. 

 It is a good idea to start cannas in early spring, in pots, 

 so that when they come to be set out they will be a 



foot or too high. In this way 

 their full effect will be ob- 

 tained early in the season, 

 canuas should be set out 



about a foot to fifteen inches 



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 \" f apart, to secure their best 



effect in masses. 



A grand plant to associ- 

 ate with cannas, because it 

 serves to greatly develop and 

 perfect their special foliage 

 effect, is the banana plant 

 ( Musa ensete). The leaves 

 are enormously high and 

 broad eight to ten feet 

 high and two feet broad, dominating and yet resembling 

 those of the caunas. Nothing can be more tropical-looking, 

 and the reddish tint of the midrib and adjacent veinings 

 and the prevailing tint of green of the leaf is charming. 



The plan of associating the Musa ensete with a mass of 

 cannas is also valuable, because the Musa is thus enabled by 

 the support of the canna leaves to resist high winds which 



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BANANA PLANT. 

 (MUSA ENSETE.) 



