Antoine Wintzer 



Original Canna 



Modern 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 country; 

 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 eleven 

 years ago. In the following year (1915), our Cannas won 

 the Grand Prize at both San Diego and San Francisco 

 from the Panama-Pacific h,xposition. 



Mr. Wintzer to this day has continued to produce larger 

 and lovelier Cannas. 



It is the delightfully cool, soft, and pleasing shades (pages 

 71 to 75) of Wintzer's latest productions that have for these 

 Cannas brought forth a new birth of genuine popularity. 



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. 

 Antoine 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 dazzHng fields 

 of this nursery, filled 

 with row upon row of 

 the new, large-flowered, 

 low-growing sorts, giv- 

 ing a stretch of color onfy 

 equaled by the tulips of 

 Holland." (See illustra- 

 tion foot of page 71.) 



WHEN MOTORING NEXT SUMMER 



Come to see our glorious fields of Cannas 



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ROBT. PYLE. Pres. 



