The McCann nursery is releasing a strain of mixed double types which is 
striking and remarkable, and the named variety HELEN HULL this season and we 
feel that Lakemont Gardens is deeply privileged to be one of the first bulb specialists 
to offer these notable Florida creations of the Amaryllis hybridizer’s art, which were 
originally described by the late Capt. McCann in the 1937 Herbertia, Vol. IV, page 
185, with Plate No. 65. 
At that time, Capt. McCann wrote that the McCann double hybrid Amaryllis 
originated with him at his nursery on the lower Florida West Coast as the result of 
crossing the small double flowered form of Amaryllis Alberti (usually considered a 
double form of Amaryllis Belladonna, Linn., the former Hippeastrum equestre) with 
the Nehrling strain of Hybrid Amaryllis. 
The double Amaryllis Alberti is an interesting orange-colored variety, found 
cecasionally in gardens over South Florida, but not of vigorous constitution in 
cultivation. Capt McCann’s hybrids have brought the double form of flower to the 
vigorous large flowered hybrids with a bewildering variety of forms and color 
variations in the mixture. 
The double Amaryllis Alberti produces a few stamens with anthers and _ this 
pollen is used on single types to produce the double hybrids. E. J. McCann, the 
present proprietor of the McCann Nursery, has given his careful attention to develop- 
ment of the strain since his father’s death in 1944. He has produced marvelous new 
shapes and color forms of the McCann doubles as we can vouch for personally, 
having seen both the bulbs in bloom and Kodachromes of the latest novelties. 
McCANN DOUBLE AMARYLLIS—blooming size bulbs in choice assortment, 
at $1.25 each. 
NAMED VARIETY—HELEN HULL -attractive ruffled orange and white, full 
petalage, very unusual and an excellent introduction to the new double Amaryllis— 
$2.00 each. 


Leon Page Photo 
Panel of close-ups of three of the Ludwig “separate shades” Amaryllis in rose- 
pink, as we bloomed them at Lakemont Gardens last season. 
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