. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). CANNA THE BULB BOOK CANNA have played a part, ^nd as the origLnal are no longer used, their progeny has become thoroughly mixed and blended in garden forms. The result has been a new race with flowers of every shade of colour, among them being red, scarlet, yellow, orange, bronze, and inter- mediate shades, many of
. The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes (orchids excluded). Bulbs (Plants). CANNA THE BULB BOOK CANNA have played a part, ^nd as the origLnal are no longer used, their progeny has become thoroughly mixed and blended in garden forms. The result has been a new race with flowers of every shade of colour, among them being red, scarlet, yellow, orange, bronze, and inter- mediate shades, many of them distinctly washed and blotched with other ;. FiQ. 92.—Canna, hybrid. Q.) The Cannas—that is, the natural species — are chiefly natives of Tropical and subtropical America as well as the East Indies. Notwith- standing this fact, there are probably no other plants from the same regions that can be grown so easily in our climate as the numerous forms that have been raised by the gardener during the past sixty years. Cannas are highly ornamental, whether grown as pot plants in the greenhouse or conservatory, or for massing in beds and borders in the open air during the summer months. 134 Indeed, they are as easily grown as Dahlias ; and they possess the great advantage of having fine leaves, not only graceful and decorative in them- selves, but also in having curiously shaped blossoms that are brilliantly coloured and marked, and somewhat puzzling in structure to the amateur botanist. Although so free and vigorous in growth, Cannas will not stand the frost. Consequently they can only be grown in the open air in the British Islands from the early summer till about the end of autumn, during just that period of the year when we may hope to be fairly free from frost. There are many ways in which Cannas can be made effective in the open garden. It must be remembered first of all that there are tall, dwarf, and medium growing kinds. These groups may be again divid
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