LUTHER BURBANK 



and development along the lines similar to those 

 characterizing the perfected Tarrytown; also the 

 Burbank, Austria, and Italia, since introduced. 



The Crozy canna is itself a hybrid, one of the 

 parents, I believe, being a form known as Canna 

 iridiflora, a tall plant with long, dark green leaves, 

 and with a long drooping panicle of rich crimson 

 flowers. I have experimented with this form, but 

 have never known it to produce seed. The devel- 

 oper of the Crozy was apparently more successful 

 in this regard, and in going forward with the 

 experiments I was enabled to profit by the earlier 

 hybridization. 



The new hybridization that I effected between 

 the Crozy hybrid and the native Florida species, 

 brought together strains widely diversified; for 

 most of the cannas are of tropical origin. The 

 tendency to variation was very obvious even in 

 the first generation, as might have been expected 

 considering that one of the parents was itself a 

 hybrid. 



From the same hybrid strain it was possible to 

 select a number of plants showing individual pecu- 

 liarities that seemed worthy of perpetuation. 



The qualities developed in the Tarrytown have 

 already been outlined. Another race developed 

 simultaneously, through a different series of selec- 

 tions, differed very markedly, in particular as re- 



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