. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. BAJHASA FAMILY ' dahlia, And a plantation once established need not be lost. If one wi^hes|o make experiments, it is necessary only to sow the seeds, and the seedlings may be Wonders. The blossom is marvellously irregular. We are accustomed to double flowers like the rose and the water-lily. We know that now and then in a flower the corolla disappears and the calyx comes forth, brave in seeming and lovely of color, as in the larkspurs; but we are not quite prepared to
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. BAJHASA FAMILY ' dahlia, And a plantation once established need not be lost. If one wi^hes|o make experiments, it is necessary only to sow the seeds, and the seedlings may be Wonders. The blossom is marvellously irregular. We are accustomed to double flowers like the rose and the water-lily. We know that now and then in a flower the corolla disappears and the calyx comes forth, brave in seeming and lovely of color, as in the larkspurs; but we are not quite prepared to have the filaments of the stamens broaden into appar- ent petals and produce the beauty and the glory of the flower, and yet this is pre- cisely what the Canna does. The history of the garden race is well known and few flowers have shown more re- markable development in recent years. At the present time- the Crozy Cannas, so named from Crozy, of Lyons, France, who introduced the greater number of them, are most popular. This type is often called the French Dwarf, or the Flowering Canna, and is marked by a comparatively low stat- ure and very large and showy flowers in many colors; whereas the Cannas of a few years ago were very tall plants, with small, late, dull-red, narrow flowers, and were grown exclusively for their foliage effects. How has this transformation come about? In the first place, it should be said that there are many species, and about half a dozen of these were well known to gardeners by 1800. About 1830 they began to attract much attention from cultivators, and the original species were soon variously hybridized. Crossed seeds and seeds from the successive gen- erations of hybrids introduced a host of new and variable forms. 98 Canna, Cdwna h^brida aaab, petal-like bodies representing the stamens, cajied staminodia; b, is the staminodia that forms the lip of the flower; /, is the anther clinglnteto the side of the fifth staminodia; e, is ap style; c cc, the pe
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