WEST GROVE, PENNA. 



The Improved Canna stands ready to enrich 

 your garden with a constant blaze of glory in color 

 of your own choosing. Its greatest value, however, 

 lies in the fact, that the improved varieties, if given 

 rich soil and the same treatment as your garden, 

 will keep throwing up a succession of bloom stalks 

 all Summer long and until frost (as many as 15 to 

 one plant) which produce two, and often three, 

 branches of magnificent flowers of such immense 

 size and durability that it is hard for one who has 

 been accustomed to the old style Cannas to under- 

 stand that this is only an educated relative they 

 have been introduced to, one which withstands 

 the trying conditions of our American climate and 

 comes into bloom many weeks earlier than the old- 

 fashioned varieties. 



When hybridizing most flowers a gain in size 

 or texture of the bloom often means a loss in some 

 other direction, resulting perhaps in poor foliage or 

 the loss of vigor. With Cannas this has not been 

 so, for crossing the varieties has been done with 

 such skill and care that the foliage has improved 

 along with the flower and the vitality of The 

 Improved Canna equals that of its predecessor in 

 the wild state. The special aim of the breeder has 

 been to produce kinds that need no petting and he 

 has been so successful in this line that the 

 Improved Canna of today grows and produces 

 its exquisite flowers under conditions where few 

 other plants would thrive. 



Mention should here be made of American 

 Canna-Hybridizers who have taken up the work 

 in a whole-hearted and enthusiastic manner and 

 who have been been careful to introduce distinct 

 varieties only, so that fewer synonyms appear in 

 Cannas than in almost any other flower showing 

 such a wide range of types and colors. 



