THE CANNA AND 

 THE CALLA 



AND SOME INTERESTING WORK WITH LILIES 



MY most celebrated canna is the one named 

 the Tarrytown. This canna took the 

 grand gold medal at the Pan-American 

 Exposition at Buffalo, as the best canna exhibited 

 at that time. There were large numbers in com- 

 petition. 



In addition to receiving the gold medal, the 

 Tarrytown was given special mention as being the 

 most profusely blooming canna ever seen. 



The new canna is a rich brilliant crimson in 

 color, and is rather dwarfed in size, standing not 

 higher than three feet. Instead of producing a 

 single stalk or at most three or four stalks, as a 

 good many even of the better varieties of canna 

 did at the time when this was produced, the Tarry- 

 town grows from six to nine oft'-shoots of the main 

 stalk. Thus it makes a splendid and highly 

 effective display, 



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