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counted as the greatest red canna with green foli- 

 age. It produces flowers of immense size and pene- 

 trating color, the vigorous plants of this variety 

 also growing to a height of five feet. 



Then we have an excellent pink variety that we 

 wish to list. It is MRS. ALFRED CONARD. 

 So many reds and yellows are used that pink 

 cannas are more or less of a novelty, and this one 

 has been called the "Queen of Cannas." The flow- 

 ers are an exquisite shade of salmon pink, very 

 large in size, and freely produced. This variety 

 grows four feet high. 



There are of course many different varieties 

 today, all evolved, however, from the old Indian 

 gunshot plant that we have seen, with its pretty 

 foliage but insignificant flowers, as grown in the 

 "gardens of yesterday." 



A multiplicity of reds and yellows, reds with 

 gold edges, speckled and spotted sorts, some good 

 pinks and a few worthwhile in white. The heights 

 to which the various sorts grow vary with the 

 varieties, and range from two and a half feet to 

 six feet or more tall. 



It does not take the amateur long to discover 

 that canna roots are more difficult to keep from 

 season to season than the dahlia or some other 

 plants, and so just a word about this. 



After the leaves have been blackened by frost, 

 and the roots dug, it will be found well to store 



