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BEST PLANTS FOR GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 



New Large Flowering Dwarf French Cannas. 



The Host Desirable Bedding Plant for the American Garden. 



The popularity with which this 

 class of plants has met is something 

 marvellous, beginning with a few 

 varieties introduced by Mens. Crozy 

 about eight or nine years since, of which 

 we then sold not over three hundred 

 plants in a season ; but even the small 

 improvement that was shown in these 

 few varieties was quickly appreciated 

 and since then a really phenomenal 

 advancement has been made, so that at 

 this time they stand pre-eminently above 

 all other flowering plants for the 

 American garden, our sales last 

 spring alone amounting to nearly fifty 

 thousand plants. 



}Ve again offer this season a set of 

 novelties which show a great advance 

 and which we feel sure will be appre- 

 ciated. In making up the various sets 

 of Cannas here offered it has been our 

 aim to select only the very best and 

 finest types, and to present a list from 

 which our customers can select any 

 one variety with the certainty of it 

 being a plant worthy of a place in any 

 garden. 



In the novelties oftered for the first 

 time this season we imported all that 

 came to our notice, and after thoroughly 

 testing them we have selected seven 

 varieties which we consider the cream 

 of this year's introduction, discarding all others, many of which 

 were purchased at high prices. 



New Gilt=Edged German Canna, 

 "Queen Charlotte." 



We offered this grand variety in a limited quantity last season 

 at a high price ; it is of German origin and will no doubt be the 

 most popular of the new varieties this season and is considered by 

 many who saw the different varieties of this gilt-edged type in flower on our grounds the past summer to be the finest of this class 

 yet introduced. The plant attains a height of about three feet and is furnished with heavy bluish-green foliage ; the enormous 

 flower spikes, towering grandly above the foliage, bear a beautiful bouquet of large flowers of perfect form, with petals of a 

 velvetv grenade blood red, broadly banded with bright canary yellow. 

 Price .$1.00 each; $10.00 per dozen ; JTo.OO per 100. 



New Qilt=Edged French Canna, "Souvenir de Antoine Crozy.'* 



This is a perfect gem and in our estimation the finest gilt-edged variety yet introduced ; the flowers are large, with well rounded 

 petals, which are of the most intense scarlet crimson, rich and dazzling, and are bordered with a broad rich golden yellow border, 

 and does not fade or scorch in the most intense hot and dry weather, which proves to be the fault with some of the very high- 

 colored varieties, notably Paul Sigrist, a variety that we thought highlv of last spring, but which failed badly the past dry summer, 

 while Souv. de Antoine Crozy and Queen Charlotte retained their rich colors planted side by side with this variety and under 

 precisely the same conditions. In habit the plant is all that could be desired, being of strong, vigorous but dwarf habit, forming 

 symmetrical compact plants about 3 ft. high. 



Price 82 50 each ; stock limited. 



New Yellow Spotted Canna, " Comte de Bouchaud." 



This ',-ariety is identical in color with that fine variety, Florence Vaughan, from which it differs only in the size of the flowers, 

 which are fully one-sixth larger ; color, rich bright golden yellow, spotted with bright red ; this is undoubtedly the finest dark 

 yellow spotted variety yet introduced ; grows about ii feet high. 



Price §1.00 each. 



New Light Yellow Spotted Canna, "Madame Montefiore." 



This is another grand variety on the same style as Florence Vaughan. but of a much lighter shade of yellow, more on the 

 style of Capt. Suzzoni. This variety when planted in masses will give, even at a short distance, a clear yellow effect, while 

 Florence Vaughan and Comte de Bouchaud, on account of the deep yellow color and heavy spots, under the same conditions have 

 more of an orange appearance. The flowers, which are of a fine clear light yellow spotted with red, are fully as large as Comte 

 de Bouchaud, while its habit of growth is also similar to that variety. This is undoubtedly the finest Canna yet introd^iced for 

 planting where a yellow effect is desired and for this purpose is almost as valuable as a yellow without a spot would be. 



Price $1.00 each. 



QUEKN ChAKLOTTE. 



