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Asbury Park Home Nurseries

Asbury Park, New Jersey

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p.5-1 ^ MAY 8-1916

Our New Lily-Cannas

Bloom from June Until Frost

A FLORAL FEAST O

F ALL the summer bedding plants there is none that will
give such a brilliant display of color, such a rich, semi-
tropical effect in foliage, and such a bold, massive, dignified
richness of form and size as our superior strain of Cannas —
or, as they are more familiarly known in some places, Indian
Shot plants. Their foliage is of noble proportions, making a full, compact
mass which serves to conceal the ground or background, and is of itself
attractive in rich shades of green, bronze, red, pink and chocolate. The
surmounting flower-trusses are uniformly large and free, brilliant, with
all imaginable shades of yellow and crimson, some of them being pure
white and others beautifully marked and splotched, rivaling the most
exquisite orchids.

In size of flower, the Canna has been wonderfully improved of late,
as well as the trusses in which they are carried, until now the Canna flaunts
its large, gorgeous banners of flowers in bewildering beauty.

During the past season our block of all the standard Cannas, and

many novelties which
are being tried out,
furnished our visitors
with the most gor-
geous color display
ever witnessed on our
grounds, and was an
inspiration and delight
to the hundreds of
travelers who viewed
them from June until
frost. The sight was
a revelation to many
of them, for they, like
many others, had
never realized the
wonderful advance
made in the propaga-
tion of Cannas during
late years.

Asbury Park

WILLIA
1504 Bangs Avenue

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SECTION OF NOMENCLATURE,

MAY 8-1916

NEW LILY-CANNAS

One of the easiest of all summer-flowering bulbous plants to grow,
the Ganna responds most generously to good soil and proper treatment.
In preparing the Ganna bed the soil should be spaded to at least i8 inches
in depth — the deeper the better. If not naturally rich, add a good quan-
tity of fertilizer (there are a number of prepared manures excellent for
the purpose), and if it is inclined to be sticky or clayey, add sand or finely
sifted coal-ashes to make it loose and friable. Inverted sod or a few inches
of dead leaves placed in the bottom of the bed will be valuable for adding
humus to the soil.

Do not plant Gannas too close together; at least i8 inches apart
each way is a good distance. In making a circular bed 4 feet in diameter,
use 7 plants; in a 7-foot bed, 19 plants; in a lo-foot bed, 37 plants, and in
a 16-foot bed, 91 plants.

It is not always necessary to plant Gannas in beds to bring out their
beauty. They are particularly valuable as single specimens in beds of
mixed annuals, or when set in the background of the hardy border. If the
shrubbery is not too
rank in growth, the
Ganna will find a
congenial home when
grown in front of tall-
growing bushes, where
it will get plenty of
sun, and the hand-
some foliage and bril-
liant flowers have an
effective background.

Our Gannas are the
largest and best ob-
tainable in the world,
and every lawn and
park should have a
bed of these stately
beauties. Try a bed
on your lawn and be a
Ganna booster.

O’HAGAN

SBURY PARK, N. J.

Loveliness

V

GROWERS OF THE

Finest Lily -Gannas

IN THE WORLD

1. California
4. Beacon

2. Venus

3. Mont Blanc

5. Halley’s Comet

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