Childs 9 Grand Flowering Gannas® 
These are now the most popular and most magnificent of all summer blooming plants for brilliant bedding and mass¬ 
ing, and are among the very finest of all pot plants, either for summer or winter blooming. The following named sorts are 
the very best of the new and better known large flowering Dwarf varieties. We have selected these varieties after care¬ 
ful tests of hundreds of sorts, and our customers can rely upon them as being the most magnificent and desirable in every 
respect, combining large flowers of great brilliancy with beautiful foliage, free blooming and easy growing qualities. 
Our new Rainbow is an exquisite foliage plant. 
Best Flowering Garzas. 
Magnificent NeW Gannas. 
Alsalse —A vigorous grower, 4 feet, with large panicles of 
bloom. Spikes full, dense, and produced early and con¬ 
tinuously. Color, lovely creamy white, the nearest to a 
pure white yet seen among Cannas. 
Coronet —Semi-dwarf; bright green foliage and large truss¬ 
es of pure sulphur-yellow flowers. Absolutely a pure 
yellow. Exceedingly fine. 
Alphonse Bouvler —Rich luxuriant foliage and enormous 
S anicles of great wide-petaled flowers, which are of the 
arkest and richest blood vermilion color, 
Paul Marquant —3J4 feet high, fine healthy growers, flowers 
very large and borne in long panicles. Color very pecu¬ 
liar, being sort of a salmon shaded red. 3J4 feet. 
Star of 1S91 —The enormous panicles of flowers which are 
borne continually even on plants only a foot or two in 
height, and in small pots is indeed marvelous, and the 
intense color of the blossoms makes such plants objects 
of the most effective beauty. 
Improved Queen Charlotte— A magnificent variety with 
large scarlet petals widely bordered with gold. In fact 
the flower is about evenly divided between these two 
brilliant colors. No better sort yet introduced. 2 feet. 
Madame Crozy —Fine scarlet with gold band and mark- 
. ings. One of the very best, producing large panicles of 
flowers. Height, 3 feet. 
Fairy Queen—Dwarf; great panicles of bright scarlet blos¬ 
soms, freely spotted and widely bordered with golden 
yellow. An extra fine sort. 3 feet. 
Clant Crimson— Extra fine green foliage; petals 1^4 to2 inch¬ 
es across, dark orange crimson spotted with deeper crim¬ 
son or maroon. Very fine and showy variety. 2 feet. 
Marigold— Flowers very large and of a rich orange color; 
foliage dense, glaucous green; two feet. A new and 
beautiful color. 
Flamingo— Half dwarf; deep blood-crimson. Large fine 
flower and truss; very showy. 
Philadelphia —Flowers gigantic in size, 5 to 6 inches across, 
deep, rich ruby red; by far the finest of all red Cannas. 
Vigorous grower, 2 to 3 feet; luxuriant foliage. Extra. 
Golden Star —Very dwarf like Star of 1891, with large pan¬ 
icles of bright golden color. 2 feet. 
Florence Vaughan— The queen of the fancy spotted vari¬ 
eties. Flowers of enormous size, petals exceedingly 
broad and of perfect shape. Color bright canary yellow 
thickly spotted with vivid scarlet. 4 feet. 
Shemani^i —Its wide Banana-like leaves are grand beyond 
description; its stately weeping habit perfection itself. 
To crown it all it 3 great drooping spikes of trumpet¬ 
shaped Fuchsia-like flowers are a very striking color, 
lovely rosy scarlet. 4 feet. 
Pink Ehemannl -A fine soft pink color, in other respects 
like Ehemanni. 4 feet high. 
Primrose —Fine clear primrose yellow. 3 feet. 
PRIGS of above 17 grand Cannas, 15c. each;any hfor 50c.; the 
17 for $3.00. Any sort at $1.35 per dozen, postpaid. 
BY EXPRESS, Any of the above at $1 per doz.; $6 per 100. 
N^W Foliage Capita, RaipbcnV. 
This is the most magnificent novelty among foliage 
plants. Each leaf is beautifully variegated with pink, scar¬ 
let, orange, grey, green, etc. The colored plate gives a good 
idea of its peculiar beauty. In habit of growth it is superb. 
It hardly reaches the height of 3 feet, and is compact with 
numerous leaves which are wide, wavy and graceful. In 
this respect more charming than any other Canna. Rain¬ 
bow is a seedling of John White, and always comes perfectly 
/‘true even from seed. In fact seedling plants are often more 
highly colored than those grown from roots. Aside from 
its beauty and usefulness as a garden ornament it is still 
grander in pots for the window or porch, and makes a speci¬ 
men plant which nothing, not even Fancy Caladiums, can 
surpass. Fine roots, 25c. each; 3 for 50c ; 7 for $1.00. Seed, 
20 c. per pkt. 
Duke of Marlborough— Dark velvety maroon. Perhaps 
the darkest and richest in color of all Cannas. Petals 
wide, truss compact, erect and very large. Elegant 
foliage of a metallic green color. Height 3 to 4 feet. 
Duchess of Marlborough— Absolutely pure pink. Num¬ 
erous spikes, each with three or four trusses of large 
elegant flowers, each truss bearing from fifty to seventy- 
five blossoms fully five inches across. Four feet high 
Best pure pink variety yet seen. 
Champion— This is perhaps the finest Canna yet introduced 
and might be called the Crimson Austria, as the flower 
is fully as large as that giant variety, of a bright dazzling 
crimson-scarlet, a color not approached in brightness 
and richness by any other variety. It is of vigorous 
growth with bright green foliage; bears four to five 
trusses to a spike, each truss containing fifty or more 
flowers. 4 to 5 feet. 
Klondike— The grandest Canna of its color. A pure gilded 
orange, absolutely without a rival. The color is as rare 
as it is beautiful. Flowers enormous, petals 2 J 4 inches 
wide well rounded and curved. Truss compact and erect 
frequently one foot across. 4 feet high. 
Loraine— Beautiful pink with a wide sulphur-yellow edge 
A charming combination of colors, and entirely new and 
unique. Spikes large. 4 feet. 
t opaz— the finest pure yellow Canna yet introduced. It is 
of large size and ideal form. 3 feet. 
F. F. Hunt-Fine large flower and beautiful compact truss 
Color pure canary-yellow freely striped with scarlet' 
A grand new variety. 3 to 4 feet. y 
Little Duke- A superb pink variety offered now for the 
first time. Large truss composed of beautiful large flow¬ 
ers, of an exquisite pink color usually with a slight 
edging of gold which gives it a thoroughly distinct char¬ 
acteristic. One of the most beautiful varieties. 4 feet. 
Pres. Carnot— A magnificent Canna with dark maroon- 
black foliage. Equalled in darkness, richness and beauty 
, b . y Black Beauty. Added to the magnificence of 
its foliage are its immense trusses, of rich, deep crim¬ 
son-scarlet blossoms, all in all, a most superb and dis¬ 
tinct sort. 4 feet. 
John B. Dutch er-Immense truss of gigantic blossoms. 
Color dark crimson-maroon, rich and velvety. 4 feet. 
PRICE of these 10 grand new Cannas, 35c. each; any S for 50c.; 
the 10 for $1.50. Any sort at $1,50 per dozen, postpaid. 
New G a was. 
.ltaiia ana Austria rorm an entirely new race of Cannas* 
the beauty of which no pen can portray. They are such an 
improvement over the varieties heretofore seen that all are 
left far in the shade. The combination is luxuriant foliage, 
with blossoms more than double the size of any other vari¬ 
ety, and colors which are perfectly fascinating. Leaves 
Musa-like, almost upright, slightly recurving, bright green, 
clean and healthy. Stems rise to the height of 7 feet, well 
above the foliage, and bear monstrous clusters of bloom. 
Individual flowers 5 to 6 inches across, airy, graceful and 
perfect. Colors bright and striking. 
Italia— Flowers very large, each petal 4 to 5 inches and 
beautifully colored. Brightest scarlet with a 
broad yellow border, irregularly blotched and spotted. 
Austria— Enormous flowers, beautiful canary yellow with a 
s^ery hue, inside slightly dotted with red. Both in 
ioiiage ana flower these two Cannas surpass all others. 
PRICE 30c. each; 3 for 30c.; 13 for $1.50; loo for $10.00, postpaid. 
MEW FOLIAGE CANNA, BLACK BEAUTY. 
A tall glower, with luxuriant leaves which are of a 
rich maroon-black color. Very effective as a foliage plant. 
Very scarce, there being but little of the true variety in 
cultivation, most of which we possess. 20 c. each; 3 for 50c. 
HYBRID CANNA SEED. 
Cannas grow readily from seed, and bloom in a few 
months, the seed here offered is hybrids saved from the 
above grand new sorts and will give magnificent results. 
Per pkt. of 25 seeds, 25c. 
For other Canna Seed see page 55 . 
