Dreer's garden book 1917 (1917) Dreer's garden book 1917 dreersgardenbook1917henr Year: 1917 126 urn. [pUBKrADRBR GARDtMREEMIOUSE'PLANE - â -:.-'<â No other bedding plant will give the same uniform good results in our varied and trying climate. They do well in all sections of the country and stand pre-eminently at the head of the list, succeeding in any sunny position in any kind of soil, but responding quickly to liberal treatment. For best results the beds should be spaded two feet deep and a generous amount of well-decayed manure of any kind thoroughly incorporated, and at all times sup
Dreer's garden book 1917 (1917) Dreer's garden book 1917 dreersgardenbook1917henr Year: 1917 126 urn. [pUBKrADRBR GARDtMREEMIOUSE'PLANE - â -:.-'<â No other bedding plant will give the same uniform good results in our varied and trying climate. They do well in all sections of the country and stand pre-eminently at the head of the list, succeeding in any sunny position in any kind of soil, but responding quickly to liberal treatment. For best results the beds should be spaded two feet deep and a generous amount of well-decayed manure of any kind thoroughly incorporated, and at all times supplying water freely. For best effect plant in large masses of one color, setting out the plants 2 feet apart. To find the number of plants required for any bed from 3 to 20 feet in diameter see planting table o:i page 119. All have green foliage unless otherwise specified. CANNAS OF RECENT INTRODUCTION. We secure for trial all promising new varieties of Cannas that are offered by European and American specialists, and but few of those tried out the past season are of sufficient merit to displace the varieties offered in 1916. These few, however, offered below are worthy of special commendation: Queen Helen ( Yellow King Humbert). Nature's whims and fancies create won- derful variations in unusual and unexpected ways. The hybridizer, with all his skill, science and patience, can only suggest. Natural variations frequently dis- count the work of a lifetime. In this case there was found on a plant of the bronze-leaved, red-flowered King Humbert a single branch or shoot with green leaves and yellow flowers. Upon being separated from the parent plant it continued to grow and retained the new colors. Thus we have practically a new variety possessing the vigor, freedom and size of bloom which make King Humbert so valuable, but with bright green foli- age, surmounted by great masses of yellow flowers dotted with red. A fascinating diversion is an occasional tendency to revert to the
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