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with delight as another break in color, but it was 

 soon superceded by Mont Blanc, which held the 

 field undisputed for 10 years. The latest and 

 greatest white is Blanche Wintzer, which a repre- 

 sentative of the Florists Exchange says "is the 

 finest white, undoubtedly, the world has ever seen." 



Wonderful strides have been made in the 

 Bronze-leaved section and the most magnificent 

 foliaged Canna ever produced is "Black Beauty," 

 which was introduced by our own Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, D. C, and dissem- 

 inated about 18 years ago. Its flowers are insig- 

 nificant but the foliage is dark, shining purple 

 and the edges are waved and crimped in exquisite 

 fashion. This Canna was used as a type and a 

 great many of the large-flowered Bronze-leaved 

 kinds have been produced from it as one parent. 

 These recent crosses are especially valuable on 

 plants which were formerly practically flowerless, 

 for we now have the combination of bronze foliage 

 with large flowers of enchanting loveliness. 



Such contrasts as are obtained in the delicate 

 blush-white of Minnehaha, the exquisite chrome 

 yellow of Juanita, and the intense reds of Wm. 

 Saunders, Conowingo and Mrs. George A. Strohlein, 

 show what has been accomplished with the Bronze- 

 leaved Cannas and these are only a few in this 

 excellent class. 



The Canna lover has now almost unlimited 

 material from which to draw and new developments 

 are appearing which prove even more startling 

 than those mentioned above. For instance, a 

 Double Canna has been produced by The Conard 

 & Jones Co.* 



*F6r photo and description see Florists Exchange, issue of 

 September 28th, 1912. 



