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BULBS FOR SUMMER 
BLOOMING 
By Ida D. Bennett 
ROBABLY the most popular summer 
bloomer of the bulb family is the large 
flowered canna. Its culture is simple. 
It delights in rich soil and abundant water and 
has a deep seated aversion to cold and frost, 
and with these few details in mind any one 
should be able to raise cannas that will con- 
fer distinction on the neighborhood. Ignore 
them and while the results may still be credit- 
able they will be in no wise notable. 
‘The canna when carried over from year to 
year in one’s own cellar or greenhouse should 
have early attention, as it is in the late days of 
winter that the mischief is played with the 
roots. 
Early in March or late in February—ac- 
cording to the state of the roots, which should 
have been examined frequently through the 
winter—the roots should be taken up and 
sorted and all dead tissue cut away. They 
should be started in sand kept moist and warm. 
Where there are greenhouse facilities they may 
be placed on the benches over the pipes. But 
in the private house, where no such convenience 
exists, they may be started in any place where 
an even heat can be maintained—the top of 
the warming oven over the kitchen range, if a 
fire is kept continuously, a shelf back of and 
over a radiator or register, or even the graveled 
top of the furnace may be utilized. If a swing 
shelf can be arranged over the top of the fur- 
nace it will afford an ideal place for the start- 
ing of bulbs of all sorts, and will do away with 
much unsightly muss about the rooms. 
The peach baskets afford a convenient re- 
ceptacle for starting canna bulbs. Place a 
layer of clean sand in the bottom of the basket, 
lay the roots on this, close together and sprout 
up; cover with more sand, water thoroughly 
and place in a warm place. ‘The root growth 
will soon begin, and be quickly followed by 
top growth. ‘The plants may be grown on in 
the basket until time to plant out in the open 
ground, which should not be until all danger 
of frost is past. Air and light must be given 
the plants, as soon as they have made one or 
two leaves, and vigorous growth encouraged. 
In preparing the bed for the cannas it 
should be dug deep and well fertilized; a 
wheelbarrow of manure to every square yard 
of earth is none too much. ‘This should be 
trenched into the ground by making a trench 
a spade’s depth along one side of the bed, fill- 
ing this with manure and throwing the next 
row of earth onto this, and filling the succeed- 
ing trench with manure. In this way the 
manure will be all thoroughly buried where 
the roots of the plants can get hold of it to the 
greatest advantage; at the same time it will be 
sufficiently covered to prevent the germination 
of the weed seeds with which all manure is 
filled. 
As cannas are a semi-bog plant and require 
much moisture, it is well to have the bed some- 
what lower than the surface of the lawn, that 
no water may be wasted by running off the 
bed, as it is impossible to hold more than a 
small portion of the water applied to a bed 
rounded above the surface of the surrounding 
soil, and while the resultant drainage is nec- 
essary for most plants that remain in the 
ground the year round, it is not so in the case 
of the canna, which is in no danger of receiving 
too much water. Cannas should not be planted 
very deep. Simply place the point of the root 
below the surface of the soil, and in very hot 
weather cultivate frequently or give a heavy 
mulch of lawn clippings. Do not allow them 
to dry out or the ground to become baked and 
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