September 3f l8 9 8. 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



577 



, much branched, and the broad-segmented, full flowers are of a 

 ^SS^CAarlotti cannot be omitted, for it is very dwarf in habit, 



^ irregular, vivia diouu-icu ^uuai dica iu /< 

 ^nlm'any persons consider this variety to be too crude] 

 H.inlv the combination is more brilliant than beautiful. 

 fid JJL Qrozy continues to be one of the best of cannas, both by 

 of its dwarf habit and its vivid blood-red flowers. Sometimes 



reason 



but sometimes 



.J segment is shaded or spotted with yellow. 



L E. Bally is particularly telling ; it has pale green leafage, and 



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rows about three and a-half feet high. The spike is good, and the flowers 

 lu d out well upon it ; the segments are moderately broad, clear, and 

 •©ft golden yellow, profusely spotted with dull scarlet. A very fine canna. 



Hokartendirector Lauche is a bold variety with shorter and broader 

 foliage than most ; it is from three to three and a-half feet high' and has 

 tine sturdy spikes of orange-scarlet flowers, these segments being 

 margined with yellow and spotted at the base with yellow ; the latter 

 lour extending to the extreme base of the segment. 

 Hofgartendirector Wendland is a somewhat small-leaved, green 

 Wiaged variety, very free, and of medium height ; the spikes are large, 

 Bid as the centre spike fades, side ones push out so that a display is con- 

 tinued over a long period. The blooms are nearly five inches across, 

 turly substantial, of a brilliant vermilion-scarlet hue with an irregular 

 golden margin, and golden markings at the bases of the segments. 



Tuc i grows about four feet high, and has clear green foliage. The 

 lowerin stem is tall, and carries very large blooms, with drooping and 

 wnewhat flimsy segments, the outer and longer ones being soft primrose- 

 dlow, and the inner ones bright yellow. 



Fi n: Buchner is very gay ; dwarf, and of good habit. Spikes full 

 i flowers, more substantial than in many varieties ; the segments are 

 oad and rounded, rich apricot margined with yellow, yellow at the 

 base, and spotted faintly all over with soft scarlet. 



Antrim Barton is very handsome, its habit of growth being good, 

 while the soft green leaves are margined with very pale green. The 

 spikes are very sturdy, and secondary side spikes are plentiful. The 

 'owers appear quite close together, and are about four inches across ; 

 the segments round and broad, pale yellow at the base, shading to gold 

 it the apex, and freely and regularly marked all over with vermilion. 

 The fourth and elongated segment has larger and deeper spots. - 



Comtesse de Vartoux Florence has an especially good habit, growing 

 Aout two and a-half feet above the pot ; the compact spikes are large, 

 m carry an abundance of very bright and attractive blooms. The 

 pound colour is golden-yellow, but somewhat paler at the base ; the 

 -boeareaofthe segments is very freely spotted with vermilion-scarlet, the 

 WU1 spots often touching each other. This beautiful variety is figured 

 ■ UK ; present issue, the reproduction being from a photograph of one of 



ne tniswick plants, taken specially tor the Gardeners' Magazine. 

 four large spikes were in flower together. 



W"<M' has handsome purple foliage with darker purple veins. It 

 ^ws about three to three and a-half feet high, and bears large branched 

 W of rich rosy-crimson flowers that are extremely effective in the 

 wncu, though not over fine individually. 



v^te £ f™'* 6 "' Ca Z*?' is rather t0 ° tal1 a S rower to become really 



M i h nr nSeS l ° 3 he i ght ° f fiVC feet ' ThC leafa « e iS Ia ^ dufl 



KUeJ, n P f ? C ■ 1 PU1 ft • nbs and margin ' The s P lke is Sood] and 

 •5JTlS2v g00 f d S,ZC falrly subslantial for * canna ; in colour they 

 Dal, ' y / oran & e - scarl et shade all over. \ 



Mooml TrT<* W is d , warf and com P act > w ^h full spikes of large 

 *i centre W? ai ? br0ad and rounded > P^e yellow at base 

 ^la s^otfnf ghtCr * lsewhere J th e whole surface is marked with 

 Y D F / ?range that P roduc e a curious blurry effect 



" "lined wkh purDle° f ffiS? ^ ^ dark * reen folia ^ e 



• . P^rpie. i he flowers are very compact, and more rounded 



any others we have seen. 



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The segments recurve 



««OitredanH n t ■ , c u,UIin ana smallest seg: 

 SEand 1 L ^. nCh S ° ft cri "^on-scarlet shade 



*5>'»b stems a 3 moderat r e S rower w "b neat green foliage and 



' f ^ '--.'rolou,V i , K WCrS <lre ofmedium size fairly substantial ; a 

 Com/eJ, n J I- cnms °n -scarlet. 



andthe \nl ^ 'P** ° f Coirtesse ^ Vartoux Florence, 

 . ?™<Kinsi*TJto ? r °" nd Colour 1S scarc e'y so bright. 

 U ^ewhat small' 18 a T y gay variety > dwarf in h abit, but 

 J^on shaded 5 a \* 5 , the se & ments are intense and vivid 

 ^ »be richer • ee P scarle t and bordered with eold • i 



•*J*U is also ve^ U briIW ed ^ & ^ ° f g ° ld The 



revers 



^ % ixZ' ^l!/\ h u h \ ^ w i th broad green leafage; 



^.apricot ' " d ° f S0ft but dlstinct sh ade of orange-scarlet that 



"*rtr \ir„. f£* >s a verv dwarf -j.t. .... 



in some 

 erse of the 



a rosy suffusion. 



Il*P^e a rs l 1L^l d u 8rower ? with the broad handsome and some- 

 ^••"aren^^ V 1 c,lar actense its set. ~ 



Some of the large outer 

 i^ lca of bright ro S v'cro'r* uruaa ' m ? ^ n , ese ha ve a large irregular 

 wS^^traJ legment'f^ 1 sur , roum ed b > a broad yellow margin. 

 /W^ 0W U i,^ S v ,h? v ' vld / carlet - ed ged and' marked with 



»Zf l* a wonderft.i ,' ' CS ^ fine flowe r s are so fleeting. 



\anna of bold habit and rather 



ment in breadth and length. Each bloom measures about six inches 

 across, the segments being fully two inches across. The three longer 

 segments are pale yel ow, heavily suffused and veined with golden- 

 yellow, and marked in the centre with blood-red. The smaller segments 

 are almost wholly covered with vermilion or blood-red. 



Pandora is a strong grower, and has rich purple foliage and stems. 

 I he spike is large, and the flowers are from five to six inches across, 

 deep rosy-scarlet, with a heavy suffusion of orange-scarlet, this beim? 

 brightest at the margins. The small central segments are marked with 

 dull yellow. 



Bavaria is a tall grower, the topmost flower on a spike being about 

 five feet above the ground. The habit of the plant is very close and 

 erect, leaves and stems pale green. The spike is of fair size, but the 

 flowers are immense, measuring four to five inches across, with fine, 

 well-developed, broad and rounded segments of a rich canary-yellow, 

 heavily marked over the basal half with scarlet. The front segment is 



heavily marked all over with scarlet. 



Its blooms are 



very large, and the outer segments are rich yellow, with the base and 

 centre covered with scarlet and blood-red, the colour looking as though 

 splashed on. The inner and smaller pair of segments are almost wholly 

 of a vivid blood-red colour* 



Canterbury Bells in Pots. 



To produce handsome flowering plants of Canterbury Bells in June and 

 July, one must prepare the previous season, otherwise few plants are 

 grown more simply and look more charming for house or conservatory 

 decoration. Many lovers of hardy plants may not agree with my recom- 

 mending Canterbury Bells as pot plants, but of late years there have been 

 some splendid additions both in colour and form to the sections ; the 

 Calycanthema section is a beautiful one, and well worth pot culture, as few 

 subjects are more showy in their season. For years I have paid special 

 attention to the simple belled forms of Campanula pyramidal is, and 

 these are equally beautiful, and probably more useful, as they last longer 

 than the Canterbury Bells ; but we have room for both for furnishing. I 

 find Canterbury Bells are much admired at the season named, and 

 those who saw the fine group at the Royal Horticultural Society's July 

 meeting, sent by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, know what can be 

 done to make the Canterbury Bells useful as pot plants. Of course, these 

 plants can readily be grown and flowered in one year ; we have done it 

 in less by sowing under glass, but I would advise sowing in April or 

 May for next season's flowering. Many do not grow the specimens in 

 pots until they are a fair size, lifting them from open borders. By this 

 method it is well to give more time, and I have seen specimens grown in 

 the open for two seasons to obtain branching plants before they flowered. 

 Pot culture, however, is more suitable for decorations, and by this method 

 one may obtain more shapely examples. 



We sow seed in May or June to produce flowering plants the next year, 

 but those sown in the open and potted up, say, in August or September, 

 will make shapely plants by next March, and may then be given a shift 

 Some may ask, why not sow in the open and allow the plants to remain 

 till spring, then lift and pot up? This is an excellent mode of culture 

 where labour is scarce, and a large pot is not objected too, for, in lifting 

 at the season named, unless there is a good ball of soil, the plants will 

 lose all their lower leaves, and at times will fail to flower freely. I like 

 pot culture from the start for various reasons, the chief being that we 

 then have compact plants that will stand a good deal of knocking about 

 and flowers earlier, the latter being a gain, as Canterbury Bells when a 

 mass of flower early in the summer are valuable for house decoration. 

 Raised from seed sown in boxes in May, and placed in frames, the plants will 

 be ready to prick out in a few weeks, and it is well to sow thinly, for the 

 seedlings have a tendency to damp badly when sown thickly or given too 

 much moisture. It is also advisable to keep the seedlings near the glass, 

 and to prick off in a small stage ; we place the seedlings in boxes, when 

 large enough to handle, about two inches apart ; they then lift nicely for 

 potting into forty-eight pots at the early part of August, and are then 

 stood close together on a hard coal ash base to keep out worms, and 

 K or plunged up to the nms in ashes through the 



nousea m a £V arP best as the plants do not like much moisture. In 



X^Je shift .h m"n.o se';en.inch P po tS for How^ng, an,, ? .a„d .hem 

 apiiiwe sniiiu prevent the loss of bottom leaves. 



oS^SmUS T*3 make /compact pyramida! growth, and as 



Vw vTv* filled the pots with roots they may be given liquid 

 « frS A 52 sSJe they take large quantities of water, and it 

 fitk^fr if the nlants are plunged after the final potting, but greater 

 saves labowtf ^J* 8 *^ for b a short time at the start. We have, 

 S&n^fi^jSS P^fd up from open borders, but prefer the 



POt l^^^SSiSt^M frames, the plants are placed in their 



A ! n ? nln^s thfs S noted at sowing time. Many beautiful 

 distinct colours this new* hybridizing ; we have some of a 



shades of colou r may be obU y y d . s £ ucer . like corolla . lhis 

 pretty rase .colour which M» £ P types ; the mauve 



formation is a ho common ^ ^ whites . In lhe dder 



°T S HZ L excellent double-flowered varieties, with the same 



section **e«e «cww rose ^ mauye varieties are the most 



colours ai -noted above. I k ^ strongest of all ; 



tender when . m . a ^oung sta^ Attention m tbe seed- 



but every colour may be o ^ ^ ^ ^ a 



hog stage. As "gara* ' ■ u[ and some fine old mortar at 

 portion of bo "^ m t ^ ia tt e r acting in ^woways, as it gives better drainage 

 ^^J^^^^m up a sturdy growth for tbe summer 



flowering. G wythes. 



Svon Gardens. 



