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Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1895, 
ITALIAN CANNAS. 
HE of Cannas called in France 
“ floriferous," is already very rich in plants 
of medium height, with numerous large flowers, 
and in colouring as brilliant as varied. We 
have witnessed the introductions of these fine 
plants since 1859, when M. Année first obtained 
crosses at Passy. Before that time Cannas were 
hardly known for summer bedding, except in 
botanic gardens, At the Muséum, there was 
planted every year a series of the following 
species :—Cannas discolor, edulis, m vet: 
gigantea, flaccida, and W The 
came the sorts which Bouché куйга) in the 
Berlin Botanic Garden; those which Roscoe 
had figured in his Scitamineous Plants, and 
certain others which Loddiges had depicted 
in the Botanical Cabinet, and which were 
n save in some English amateur 
. Année, then, may be attributed the first 
important results in the artificial fertilisation - 
Cannas, The flowers which he obtained w 
varied, but the plants were often too large. Вбой 
wal principal pa of the growers, among whom 
re М. Lierval, M. Bihorel and other nursery- 
men, was to dey elop plants with large highly- 
coloured foliage, Seedlings raised by M. Crozy, 
of Lyons, some time after, proved quite a revela- 
Crozy was for some time the most beautiful 
known. Subsequently other raisers, foremost 
among whom were MM. Vilmorin at An:ibes, 
obtained some very handsome varieties, 
But the class of which we wish now to speak, 
and which we may call Italian Cannas, are a 
great advance upon any others yet obtained. It 
is to MM. Dammann et Cie, п 
in this firm, M. Sprenger, said that by always 
working on the same lines, and always inter- 
Lien Л the large-fl d ariete. oea 
vane 8 He, therefore, 
sought to infuse new blood ent these к; 
brids, and this was introduced b у employing 
Canna flaccida, This species, ori iginat ing in the 
southern United States, is of medium height, 
3 feet, and bears large flowers, one petal 
in whioh is especially developed. 
The first trials made by M. Sprenger were unsuc- 
cessfal, But in 1892-93 he obtained by fertilising 
Canna Madame Crezy with the pollen of a fine 
variety of C. flaecida, & splendid plant, which he 
named Italia (fig. 114). Apart from the unusual sizs 
of the flowers and their beautiful golden-vermilion 
colour, the plant has this peculiarity, that the general 
