LARGE FLOWERING CANNAS. 



The Canna is the King of Summer decorative plants, and its sovereignty is now 

 acknowledged by all well informed horticulturists and florists. Nothing rivals the improved 

 varieties of the Canna for bedding or massing upon the lawn or grouping about buildings 

 and as single specimens in the border; their tropical luxuriance of foliage and great wealth 

 of enormous heads of bloom, dazzling in brilliancy and constantly produced throughout the 

 summer and autumn renders it of value not to be compared with any other plant. The 

 newer varieties of this royal genus are so superior to the type or original species C. Indica 

 in habit, size, brilliancy and profusion of bloom, foliage and general adaptability as scarcely 

 to be recognized as descending from it. Following our established practice v/e have again dis- 

 carded a number of varieties the past summer; retaining only those of pronounced merit 

 and of distinct individual characteristics. Every variety offered has been fully and 

 thoroughly tested upon our own grounds, all of which are grown in large quantities, some of 

 the more popular sorts by the acre, in order to meet the demand for good, well grown and 

 well developed roots and plants; and to enable us to sell them at the prices we do. 



The descriptions can in all cases be relied upon as entirely accurate — never overdrawn. 



The illustrations are from nature — those of plants 

 being in every instance drawn from photographs 

 of typical specimens of the re- 

 spective varieties^z//</ are engrav- 

 ed one half inch io the foot. Much 

 care and labor have been be- 

 stowed upon these pictures, in 

 order to have them accurate and 

 to illustrate so far as possible 

 upon so small a scale, the char- 

 acteristics of each variety. 

 The German Gilt-edged Canna 



QUEEN CHARLOTTE. 



This beautiful variety has quite fully 

 sustained the high claims made for it 

 and is a most valuable addition to the 

 QUEEN CHARLOTTE. Reduced one-half. list. It is decidedly the finest of the 



