Febbuaey 10, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



Princeton, a novelty of 1915, is al- 

 most as good a shade of yellow as 

 Gumpper, and is much more vigorous 

 and has larger t flowers. It does not 

 sun-scald and it holds its flowers well 

 up into the light, above the foliage. 

 Watch this, fqr it promises to be a tpp- 

 notcher. 



Jane Addams is as good a yellow 

 canna as has yet been produced. Its 

 price is all that will prevent its being 

 a leader at once. Yet it is not the 

 large, bright, clear yellow that is so 

 much desired in cannas, but as yet 

 never produced. 



Juanita is a handsome, deep • pump- 

 kin yellow, the yellow that needs no 

 apology. The flowers are not so large 

 as some of the reds, but are hard to 

 beat. The foliage is neither green nor 

 bronze, but halfway between. This is 

 its one weakness. 



Queen Helen is a good canna, perhaps 

 better than Florence Vaughan, but has 

 some of the weaknesses of its parent, 

 King Humbert. The flower is spotted, 

 but appears yellow at a little distance, 

 and it is a good variety, though far 

 from the ideal. 



Richard Wallace is perhaps the best 

 yellow that is low in price and that mul- 

 tiplies rapidly. It is ideal in every 

 way except that it is too light in color. 

 It fades to almost cream. Still, at its 

 best it is a wonderfully good canna. 



Dr. Nansen is of the same quality in 

 every way as R. Wallace, but is dwarf. 

 There is no better dwarf yellow canna. 



Kate F. Deemer and Golden Gate are 

 much alike in color and shape, as well 

 as in height and freedom of bloom. 

 They class with the two or three best 

 yellow cannas that we have ever seen. 

 They are both light in color and fade 

 almost to light canary, but they bloom 

 so freely, and have such large heads of 

 perfectly shaped flowers of medium to 

 large size, that they will soon become 

 popular. Both increase rapidly, bloom 

 when small and keep at it every day till 

 frost. They are not identical, but simi- 

 lar, and we have not been able to de- 

 cide which is the better. 



Some Variegated Flowers. 



Sam Trelease Improved is one of 

 the best cannas that we have ever seen. 

 However, it is not yellow, but yellow 

 bordered with red. It is bound to be 

 one of the leaders soon. 



Queen Charlotte, though known to 

 everyone, is mentioned here because it 

 is still the best dwarf bright red with 

 a good yellow border. 



Allemania and Olympic are similar in 

 color, size and productiveness, though 

 Olympic is easily better than even the 

 improved variety of Allemania. Both 

 are beautiful and desirable, the best of 

 their color, scarlet dotted and edged 

 yellow, but this in most places is not a 

 popular color. 



Greenback was produced by L. H. 

 Read, of Alabama. There is nothing 

 like it that we have ever seen. It does 

 not bloom, but is a decidedly strong 

 grower, making seven or eight feet, and 

 produces leaves that look for all the 

 world like the best leaves on a banana 

 tree and are as large. We measured- a 

 leaf last summer that had a blade thir- 

 ty inches broad, and over three feet 

 long before it began to narrow into the 

 petiole. For tropical eflfect there is no 

 plant that we have ever seen that has 

 so much to commend it. It is not so 

 tall as Canna musifolia and the leaves 



Chrysantheinum Mllka, of the Early-floweriDg Type. 



are green rather than bronze, but the 

 habit of growth is years ahead of any 

 other foliage canna. 



Wyoming is the one good bronze- 

 leaved orange canna. It beats Humbert 

 or any of the other bronze-leaved can- 

 nas in everything save color. A cir- 

 cular bed containing 500 plants on the 

 grounds of one of our customers was 

 the most gorgeous bed of cannas that 

 we have ever seen. There is no canna 

 today that will produce more or larger 

 flowers or better foliage, though the 

 foliage has the habit of turning green 

 at times. Flovd Bralliar. 



of the flood, said: "The high water cer- 

 tainly put us out of commission. Our 

 fires in the boiler house were ex- 

 tinguished by the water on the morning 

 of February 1, but by installing stoves 

 we have been able to keep the stock 

 from freezing. Our frame of pansies 

 and several hundred 2-year-old rose 

 bushes were inundated. The water, how- 

 ever, did not get to any of the stock in 

 the houses, and today, February 3, it is 

 retreating slowly. ' ' 



HIGH WATER AT MUBPHYSBOEO. 



When the Big Muddy river of south- 

 ern Illinois could no longer accommo- 

 date the large quantity of water flow- 

 ing into it from its swollen tributaries, 

 the water rose rapidly and overflowed 

 its banks at Murphysboro, 111., where it 

 inundated the grounds of the Wisely 

 greenhouses, situated near that town. 

 The illustration herewith shows the 

 Wisely greenhouses during the period of 

 the flood. Claude Wisely, in speaking 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MILKA. 



Of the early flowering type of 

 chrysanthemums, which are now so 

 popular for outdoor use in the eastern 

 states, few are more attractive than is 

 Milka, the lovely snow-white flowers of 

 which, when grown in a natural way, 

 about twelve flowers to a plant, make 

 a plant that is the acme of artistic 

 grace. Outdoors Milka made a perfect 

 bush about two feet high, covered with 

 blooms, and elicited a great deal of 

 admiration from visitors who saw it last 

 season in C. H. Totty's garden at 

 Madison. 



Flood at the Wisely Grrenhoutes, at Murphysboro, III. 





