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Antoine Wintzer Original Canna 
THE EVOLUTION OF THE CANNA 
‘To have doubled, and more, the size of a flower; 
To have trebled the variety of colors; 
To have increased the endurance of the bloom; 
To have given bronze foliage to flowers that before had 
only green; 
After nineteen years of faithful, enthusiastic hybridizing is 
the record of our Vice-President, Antoine Wintzer, 
America’s Canna Wizard. 
To have won for these improved flowers leading awards at 
the great expositions in America; 
To have won for America the majority of the awards 
against all competing nations of Europe in a two-year 
international competitive test by the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society of England; 
To have the superiority of C. & J. Cannas recognized and 
to have them used by the leading parks of our ccuntry; 
Is evidence conclusive that C. & J. Improved Lily-Cannas 
are superior to all other existing sorts, and that they 
have, by merit alone, won the title of ‘‘The Finest 
Cannas in the World. ” 
The above words were published in our Catalog twelve 
years ago. In the following year (1915), our Cannas won 
the Grand Prize at both San Diego and San Francisco 
from the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 
Antome Wintzer’s work among his Cannas Is finished. 
Early in 1925 he left us for the higher life. His contribution 
to mankind was certainly an ‘‘added beauty to the earth.”’ 
For the delightfully cool, soft, and pleasing shades which 
all our visitors so much admire, see pages 71 to 75. 
WHEN MOTORING NEXT SUMMER 
Come to see our glorious fields of Cannas 
3 ~ Modern Canna 
The Garden Club 
of America 
in their Bulletin of No- 
vember, 1922, published 
the following from Mrs. 
Francis B. Crownin- 
shield 
“This metamorpho- 
sis of the Canna was 
produced by Mr. 
Antome Wintzer, of the 
firm of Conard & Jones, 
West Grove, Pa., who 
has spent his life chang- 
ing one of our public 
scourges into one of the 
most beautiful flowers. 
“Perhaps some of the 
Bulletin readers in 
motoring from Wash- 
ington to Philadelphia 
have suddenly come 
upon the dazzling fields 
of this nursery, filled 
with row upon row of 
the new, large-flowered, 
low-growing sorts, giv- 
ing astretch of color only 
equaled by the tulips of 
Holland.” (See ilustra- 
tion foot of page 71.) 
The Conard-Pyle @. 
ROBT. PYLE, Pres. 
