CANNA 47 



CANDELABRUM BELLFLOWER. See CAMPANULA macro- 

 styla. 



CANDYTUFT. See IBERIS. 



CANNA Indian Shot (from L. canna, a reed). Nat. 

 Ord. Scitaminece. 



It may be said at once, that Cannas are not 

 annuals, but stove herbaceous perennials ; but with 

 care and trouble they may be grown from seed and 

 treated as half-hardy annuals, and planted out in 

 summer to flower the same year. They are most 

 striking and noble plants on account of their fine 

 foliage and erect spikes of bright flowers. It is not 

 necessary, however, to give a list of the twenty or 

 thirty different species and their varieties, as they 

 cannot be depended upon to come quite true from 

 seed, but the following may be chosen : 



C. lu'tea. Height 2 ft. Yellow. E. Indies, 1829. 

 October. 



C. sangui'nea. Height 3J ft. Scarlet. From 

 Costa Rica, 1849. Syn., C. Warszewic'zii. 



C. specio'sa. Height 3 ft. Red. August. S. 

 America, 1820. 



C. sulphu'rea. Height 5 ft. Yellow. September. 

 From Laguna in 1828. Syn., C. lagunen'sis. 

 Probably the best to raise from seed are Crozy's 

 Dwarf Hybrids, as they do not take so long to 

 grow as the taller ones. Antonia Crozy, crimson, 

 with dark-coloured leaves. Mme. Crozy, orange 

 red, with a margin of yellow. Francois Crozy and 

 many others. 



