Half-hardy perennial== Cannas have ceased to be regarded simply as sub-tropical foliage plants, adapted only for the adornment of beds and borders.
In the mixed border, and also in the sub-tropical garden, Cannas are much valued for the exceeding grace and beauty of their foliage.
As Cannas are gross feeders they must have a rich, porous compost, and an occasional dose of liquid manure will prove beneficial, especially when the pots are full of roots.
Do not shake any more earth from the clumps of cannasand dahlias than is necessary in removing them from the ground.
They can be stored with the dahlias and cannas and are not apt to shrivel, as the bulb is so large and fleshy.
In the middle of each square of lawn a raised circle, edged with stone, was made for the spring hyacinths and tulips (these to be succeeded later with cannas and bright summer flowers).
Funkia Sieboldi also makes a handsome tub, while for summer filling Cannas are admirable and old Geraniums in bush form always acceptable.
Here Geraniums andCannas luxuriate in shelter and full sunshine.
It is well to have theCannas started in boxes in sunny windows, in tool-room or carriage-house, by mid-April.
After a hard frost has killed the tops, the Dahlias, Cannas and Gladioli should be taken up, the tops cut off, the roots well dried, and then stored in a cellar that does not freeze.
The number of Cannas enumerated is so large that it is desirable to make a selection from them.
Illustration: Clumsy mass ofCannas in a London park.
When we remember that the Cannas are amongst the most valuable plants we use for giving grace and verdure to the flower-garden, this surely is a hint worthy of being acted upon, as, of course, they will prove equally hardy with us.
Gladioli, Dahlias, and Hollyhocks, for example--while among Cannas and the like it will prove fine.
The soil for all Cannas should be deep, rich, and light.
The general tendency of most of our flower-garden plants is to assume a flatness and dead level, so to speak; and it is the special quality possessed by the Cannas for counteracting this that makes them so valuable.
Our old-fashioned garden was hidden by a row of firs, while Bee set out beds of cannas and geraniums.
I have a space in connection with some formal stonework of steps, and tank, and paved walks, close to the house, on purpose for the summer placing of large pots of Geranium, with sometimes a few Cannas and Lilies.
Dahlias and Cannas have their places in the mixed border.
It requires two years to raise strong plants of the old-fashioned tall cannasfrom seed.
Formerly they were valued chiefly for their foliage, but since the introduction, in 1884, of the Crozy Dwarf French type with its showy flowers, cannas are grown as much for their bloom as for their foliage effects.
The roots of Cannas must be taken up in the autumn.
Cannas have some height, a delicate splash of colour in the blossom and so work in well.
Vincas trailed over the edges; dwarf cannas were in the back of each box; and red and white geraniums were a glory all summer long.
Plant before the space allotted to this, castor beans, tall cannas or sunflowers.
Lister was sending over his cannas and elephant ears.
The smooth grass was strewn with branches and twigs, the cannas lay flat, gardens were flooded, and at the campus gate a tree lay across the street.
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