LUTHER BURBANK 



The individual flowers are of good substance, 

 enduring the sun well. 



After the blossoms fade, the petals drop to the 

 ground. This is a special feature for which careful 

 selection had been made, as many cannas tend to 

 hold shrivelled blossoms, thus having an untidy 

 appearance. 



ORIGIN OF THE NEW CANNA 



The Tarrytown canna was developed from the 

 type known as the Crozy canna, hybridized with a 

 native species of the Florida swamps known as 

 Canna flaccida, a plant with extremely large flow- 

 ers of pure lemon yellow. 



The Crozy canna is a well-known horticultural 

 variety, developed in somewhat recent years, 

 which differs from the varieties that were previ- 

 ously in vogue in that its flowers are notable at- 

 tractive and of varying colors. Until the cannas of 

 the Crozy type were developed, this plant was 

 prized chiefly for its foliage, the flowers being 

 rather insignificant. But the Crozy canna has 

 large flowers, to casual inspection similar to those 

 of the gladiolus. 



The Florida species (C. flaccida) that was used 

 to hybridize with the Crozy, has very fine large 

 petals, but the flowers are not lasting. But it 

 blended well with the other type, and introduced 

 an element of variability that facilitated selection 



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