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BEDDING PLANTS. 



add greatly to the beauty of any part of a bed that they 

 emphasize. Cannas should be always used in considerable 

 masses. 



They are tuberous-rooted and not hardy, and these 

 tubers should be taken up and kept through the winter in 

 a dry cellar or greenhouse Avhere the frost can be kept out. 

 It is a good idea to start cannas in early spring, in pots, 

 so that when they come to be set out they will be a 



foot or too high. In this way 





their full effect -will be ob- 

 tained early in the season, 

 cannas should be set out 

 about a foot to fifteen inches 

 apart, to secure their best 

 effect in masses. 



A gi-and plant to associ- 

 ate with cannas, because -it 

 serves to greatly develop and 

 perfect their special foliage 

 effect, is the l)anana plant 

 (Mum ensete). The leaves 

 are enormously high and 

 broad — eight to ten feet 

 high and two feet broad, — dominating and yet resembling 

 those of the cannas. Nothing can be more tropical-looking, 

 — and the reddish tint of the midrib and adjacent veinings 

 and the prevailing tint of green of the leaf is charming. 



The plan of associating the Musa eiisete with a mass of 

 cannas is also valuable, because the M^im is thus enabled by 

 the support of the canna leaves to resist high winds which 



BANANA PLANT. 

 (musa ensete.) 



