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Title: "The finest cannas in the world."
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Conard & Jones Co. (West Grove, Pa.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: West Grove, Pa. : Conard & Jones Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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cover) or inlarge beds. Its exquisite salmon pink flowersare of largest size in erect and abundantly fur-nished heads so freely produced as to keep asuperb showing for months. ^MRS. CARL KELSEY. (6 to 7 ft.)—Green foliagewith a narrow edge of purple. Erect, full heads ofenormous flowers, orange-scarlet, flaked andstriped with golden yellow; petals wavy edged.We know of no other canna so marvelously marked—an ornament to any garden. Orchid-flowering. MRS GEORGE A. STROHLEIN. (6 ft.)—Bronze foli-age. Flowers are large and of unusual color, be-ing a bright shade of amaranth-red. Good formassing. WEST GROVE, PENNA. 25 MRS. KATE GRAY. (5 ft.)—Green foliage. Flowersrigh orange scarlet finely flaked and streaked witligolden yellow tints. Large orchid-flowering va-riety. MXJSAFOLIA. (8 ft.)—Bronze-green foliage. Grownfor foliage only, which is attractive on account ofits enormous Musa-like leaves, 3x5 feet, and thegreat height to which it grows. Symmetrical atevery stage of growth.
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Olympic—Note immense spread of petals ^NEW YORK. (5 ft.)—Rich purple-plum colored foli-age. Flowers of great size produced freely andwell above the foliage. Color is almost scarlet.Very choice. ^NIAGARA. (3 ft.)—Green foliage. Flowers richdeep crimson with a wide, irregular border of deepgolden yellow; the most popular variety for bor-dering beds of other Cannas. ^OLYMPIC. (5 ft.)—Green foliage. The co-or effectpresented by Olympic is new in Cannas andmost fascinating. It is a distinctly new departure,being a most captivating shade of rich orient-redwith center flamed a lighter shade and dappled 26 THE CONARD & JONES CO. carmine. Individual blossoms are of the largestsize, and the huge twenty-flowered clusters makeheads that are simply immense. (See cut page 25.) ^OTTAWA. (6 ft.)—Green foliage. Flowers, 5 to 6inches across, are carmine with tints of old roseand deep coral, add to this the silken sheen andyou can imagine the effect a few plants will pro-duce. ^PANAMA. (3

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