June 23—Cannas are now brightening our gardens with their showy' flowers and orna mental foliage: this plant, popularly known as "Indian Shot," is one of our most useful Summer flowering subjects, it produces a succession of blooms until the Autumn. The popular name was derived from the hard shotlike seeds. Over one hundred species are known but these could easily be reduced to less than fifteen distinct ones. Years ago, cannas were grown only for their foliage as they produced small printer ing flowers: masses of plants were to be seen in out-of-the-way-places. One of the original species was Canna nepalensis; this plant grows very high, sometimes over 10 feet and at the end of the stems appears a few very mediocre flowers, There are' still quite a
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