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Flamingo! 



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OUR PEERLESS PEDIGREE CANNA, 



Originated and for sale only by The Dingee & Conard Co. 



HOSE of our customers who are readers of SUCCESS WITH FLOWERS, and their 

 names are legion, are familiar with the remarkably successful contest for a suitable 

 name for our magnificent new hybrid Canna "No. 1900," inaugurated in April, 1894. 

 From the thousands of names sent m by contestants, the committee appointed to decide 

 the matter selected the name " FLAMINGO " as the most suggestive and available 



among the number, and consequently the Cash Prize of $100.00 was equally divided among the six 



contestants who were fortunate enough to suggest that name. 



CANNA FLAMINGO needs no praise ; wherever seen it will sell itself. It is justly regarded 



as one of the horticultural triumphs of the century, and will remain a landmark in the development 



of these beautiful decorative plants. 



1K«flf/M»tt m I FLAMINGO is an indirect descendant of the well-known dwarf 



IDisHOly. * • • • • American Canna "Star of '91," crossed with a vigorous seed- 



' ling, now lost, and again hybridized with Canna Noutonii, 



which is a hybrid descendant of the Peruvian species, Canna iridiflora. It is the triumphant result 

 of careful thought and skillful, scientific hybridization. 



Description. 



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FLAMINGO is sturdy and vigorous, carrying its broad, massive 

 dark-green foliage in symmetrical form. It has never exceeded 

 four feet in height under the highest cultivation, and usually 

 begins to show bud when only six or eight inches from the ground. The immense trusses of bloom 

 are borne aloft on strong, tapering stems, in a firm, erect and yet most graceful manner. The ex- 

 panded truss forms an almost perfect oval, approaching a foot in length and seven or eight inches in 

 diameter. Two or more side spikes are usually provided, which replace, in succession, the main 

 truss as soon as its bloom has faded. 



The individual florets are uniformly more than four inches* in diameter, and are of the most 

 refined circular form, evenly reflexed and arranged about the stem with the grace and finish of the 

 most perfect Hyacinth. Of the color it need only be said that it is an intense, glowing crimson, 

 without spot or blemish of any kind. A well-established plant of Flamingo will develop at once 

 from three to six of these splendid spikes of bloom, thus presenting an array of gorgeous color un- 

 equaled by any other plant now known. Its rugged constitution allows 'it to" produce bloom in 

 constant succession, whether grown in the border or house, and its compact, dwarf habit especially 

 fits it for culture in the latter. In conclusion, it maybe truthfully said that this Canna has a mission, 

 and that mission is to produce grace, beauty and glowing color under all reasonable circumstances. 



Gbe Tllse ano IMue 

 of jflamingo. 



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No bedding plant whatever can produce the brilliant, yet re- 

 fined and pleasing color effects characteristic of a group of 

 Canna Flamingo. From early June until the killing frosts of 

 October, it is constantly surmounted by a glowing crown of 

 perfect blooms, gracefully relieved by the green and luxuriant 

 foliage. The familiar bedding Geranium, even in its best and most highly improved varieties, looks 

 cheap and tawdry beside it. For pot culture, none of the myriads of costly exotic plants can surpass 

 it, if beauty and richness of color, grace of outline, vigor of constitution, "ease of management, and 

 earliness, profusion and certainty of bloom are factors in making a choice. We predict for this choice 

 plant a great and increasing use, in company with the Palm and Lily, for refined decorative use. 



An Conclusion. 



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New Uses, that cannot be anticipated now, will be found for a 



plant combining so many points of sterling excellence, and we 



1 can assure those who secure their plants of Flamingo now that 



they will not only enjoy the pleasure of witnessing the development of this floral gem during the 



coining Summer, but will possess in the increase of stock during the coming season an article of 



standard and growing value. 



PRICE.— Strong, well-rooted blooming plants, postpaid by Mail, $1.50 each. 



THE DINGEE & CONARD COMPANY, Rose Growers, West Grove, Pa. 



