Admiral Courbet

Canna 'Admiral Courbet'

Canna 'Admiral Courbet'

(French Group)
Origin CROZY Antoine
Parentage unknown
Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm
Foliage Green
Form Spreading
Flower Yellow
Blooming Low bloomer
Flowering Summer to frosts
Tillering Average
Available Specialist

Admiral Courbet

Introduced by Pierre Antoine Marie Crozy of Crozy et fil, Lyon, France in 1888, Canna 'Admiral Courbet' is a medium sized Crozy Group cultivar; green foliage, elliptical shaped, acute apex, spreading habit; round main stems, coloured green; flowers are open, yellow with carmine spots, staminodes are medium size, edges irregular, petals yellow, fully self-cleaning, low bloomer, flowers in summer until frosts, blooms open in the early morning; fertile both ways, not self-pollinating or true to type, capsules globose; rhizomes are thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, coloured white; tillering is average.

Canna 'Admiral Courbet' is available from specialist growers.

Winner of an Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1886. Still being grown in Europe and Australia.

References

RHS First Class Certificate (Cannell 1888)

Garden & Forest, 3 October 1888
Large flowers with bright yellow petals, heavily and profusely blotched and spotted with blood-red.

RHS Journal of 1889

Garden & Forest, 28 August 1889
Citron yellow spotted with scarlet, very showy.

Wilhelm Pfitzer Catalogue, 1890
Medium. Leaves bright green. Flowers fiery, citron-yellow, in the centre carmine streaks.

Garden & Forest, 23 September 1891
Cherry-crimson flowers.

Henry A. Dreer nursery, advert in Garden & Forest, 6 June 1894
No details just listed in advert.

Garden & Forest, 22 August 1894
I could not help observing how well Admiral Courbet, a fine canary-yellow bedder introduced several years ago, holds its own among the newer introductions.

RHS Journal of 1895

Veitch Catalogue 1896
Flowers large yellow spotted with red

Peter Henderson & Co, Catalogue 1897
Light yellow, speckled with orange.

RHS Journal of 1898-9

The English Flower Garden, W. Robinson. 8th Edition, 1900
No decription, just a list of recommended specimens.

Das Geschlecht der Canna, by Árpád Mühle
Admiral Courbet. Sheets easily silver-grey-green, flower basic colour chrome-yellow, with some kastanienbraunen points and marks. Very again conditionable against rain etc.

Claines Canna Collection
Medium height. Green foliage. Canary yellow spotted with blood red.