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A Group of Cannas. 
Everyone who uses bedding plants 
likes the Cannas; they are very showy, 
very easily grown, and especially desir¬ 
able in a sunny place where a noticeable 
effect is desired, as along a driveway. 
The taller ones form an effective screen 
near a wood pile or poultry run. 
Among varieties having green foliage 
and red flowers the following are all 
good: Louisiana, very vigorous, growing 
to a height of seven feet, glossy green 
foliage and vivid scarlet flowers; Charles 
Henderson, green foliage and bright 
crimson flowers; height four feet; Pres¬ 
ident Cleveland, large orange scarlet 
flowers, height three feet; Pillar of Fire, 
height six to seven feet, large erect 
spikes of deep scarlet flowers, very free 
bloomer. Varieties with dark foliage 
are very effective. Brandywine is a 
fine variety growing four to five feet 
tall, foliage deep bronze, flowers bright 
red; Egandale is an old favorite, with 
flowers of an unusual currant red, pur¬ 
plish bronze leaves, height four feet; 
King Humbert, foliage coppery bronze, 
very large flowers, orange scarlet marked 
with red, height four feet. This is an 
exceptionally beautiful Catina. 
Among yellow sorts our old friend 
Florence Vaughan is still a favorite, flow¬ 
ers yellow spotted crimson, height five 
feet. Mme. Crozy, vermilion with gold 
border, height 5 y 2 .feet, is another good 
old sort, while the little Queen Char¬ 
lotte, height Zy 2 feet, orange scarlet with 
a gold band around each petal, still holds 
public favor. Among pure yellow But¬ 
tercup, height Zy 2 feet, and Golden King, 
height five feet, are both good. 
The section described as Orchid-flow¬ 
ering Cannas is remarkable for the 
large size and exotic beauty of the blos¬ 
soms. In our experience they have not 
flowered as freely as the ordinary type, 
and the large, heavy trusses of bloom 
are often badly battered by Summer 
storms, but their tropic beauty makes 
them always interesting. The following 
are standard sorts: Italia, height \y 2 
feet, foliage green, flowers red bordered 
yellow; Austria, pure canary yellow, 
height five feet; Allemania, green foli¬ 
age, scarlet and yellow flowers, height 
four to five feet; Philadelphia, rich red 
flowers, height five feet; Indiana, golden 
orange marked red, the flower spikes 
rising about two feet above the compact 
green foliage, which is three to four 
feet high. 
Cannas require just about the same 
soil and treatment as corn; warm, rich, 
moist and well-worked soil. They are 
injured by frost, and should not be set 
out until the weather is settled. For 
mass effects set the plants one foot apart 
each way, but give more room to single 
specimens. Pick off the flowers as soon 
as they wilt, to prevent seed formation, 
which lessens blooming. In a light soil 
we have seen very good results from 
occasional doses of liquid manure. 
When raising Cannas from seed, the 
hard outer shell should be cut or filed, 
or else softened by long soaking in warm 
water; without this precaution the seed 
may not germinate, as this armor plating 
is too horny for the germ to break¬ 
through. 
A Few Hardy Chrysanthemums. 
Any flower lover who visits a chrysan¬ 
themum show in one of the great cities 
takes away recollections of mammoth 
blooms and pot plants that form real 
bouquets, but these are not the most in¬ 
structive feature of the exhibition to the 
outdoor gardener. The wman who has 
no glass structure may have looked with 
admiration upon the prize winners at the 
New York show last Fall, but for real 
instruction she went to the tables of cut 
blooms, where hardy Pompons appeared 
in infinite variety. The prize pot plants, 
the largest the writer has ever seen were 
circular, 10 feet across, and trained to 
exact symmetry, a wire form like an 
umbrella frame being set in place over 
the pot, and the shoots trained over this, 
so that every flower was in place, like 
the regular rows of a formal bouquet. 
Dean Reynolds Hole refers, in one of 
his books, to an enthusiastic gardener 
who “would sit up all night with a sick 
cactus,” and we really think that the man 
who .developed those wonderful plants 
must have coddled them like a cherished 
child. But their beauty is not for us; 
we want Chrysanthemums that will stay 
in the garden year after year, and bid 
defiance to early frosts, like the “arti- 
mishals” of our grandmothers, so we 
turn away reluctantly from the big mop- ' 
headed Japanese sorts, and content our- I 
selves with the Pompons. 
^ We plant our Chrysanthemums in the ' 
Spring; as they are pot-grown green¬ 
house plants we wait until danger of 
frost is over. Good garden soil, and 
such general treatment as we would give 
roses, will meet their requirements, for 
these sturdy varieties out of doors are 
rarely troubled by the afflictions that be¬ 
fall pampered greenhouse plants. A lo¬ 
cation sufficiently sheltered to avoid the 
full sweep of the wind should be chosen, 
as we want their flowers to continue 
after everything else in the garden is 
blackened by frost. 
Among Pompon varieties that have 
proved hardy with us are the following: 
Baby Margaret, tiny white buttons, very 
freely produced; Rhoda, clear pink; 
Soeur Melanie, white, larger; Victor, 
rosy crimson; Dundee, maroon shaded 
brighter red; Ida, bright golden yellow; 
Little George, purplish red; Excelsior, 
orange yellow, large; Klondike, bright 
yellow; Nydia, pure white, with a high 
round form; Ada Williams, white 
shaded blush; Julia Lagravere, garnet; 
Baby, tiny lemon yellow; Golden Pheas¬ 
ant, rich yellow. 
Single Chrysanthemums after the type 
of the original Chusan daisy, are charm¬ 
ing. One of the loveliest we know is 
Mary Richardson, reddish salmon or 
terra cctta, a very unusual shade; other 
good ones are Belle of Weybridge, red¬ 
dish chestnut; Ladysmith, dwarf, clear 
pink; Winnie Sherring, apricot; Earls- 
.wood Beauty, primrose; Hilda, orange 
terra cotta. 
Very interesting are the Anemone 
Pompons, which have a quilled center 
and daisy-like ray florets, giving an ar¬ 
tistic irregularity of form not found in 
the true Pompons, -nnong these Bessie 
Tlight is a delicate blush; Rose Mar¬ 
guerite, pink; Astarte, bright brassy 
amber. 
If we had a little glass lean-to we 
should grow some of the large Japanese 
Chrysanthemums, growing out of doors 
in pots all Summer, and bringing them 
into shelter in the Fall, but without 
some glass structure this does not seem 
practicable, excepting a few very early 
sorts. Our Pompons are helped by a 
mulch of manure every Fall, which is 
lightly forked into the ground in Spring; 
this is not so much for protection as for 
keeping up fertility and avoiding heav¬ 
ing. The mulch must be withdrawn 
from the crowns very early, as they 
soon start into growth. These Pompon 
Chrysanthemums are a very desirable 
feature in a border of hardy herbaceous 
plants. 
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