Canna 'Florence Vaughan'
Photo by Dale McDonell at Melbourne Botanical Gardens

Canna 'Florence Vaughan'

syn Zebra Cole

(French Group)(Heritage Group)

Origin CROZY Antoine

Parentage unknown

Height Medium, over 3ft/90cm

Foliage Green

Form Branching

Flower Multi-coloured

Blooming Good bloomer

Flowering Summer to frosts

Tillering Prolific

Available Specialist
Awards Bronze Medal, World's Fair, Chicago, 1893.

Introduced by Pierre Antoine Marie Crozy of Crozy et fil, Lyon , France in 1891, Canna 'Florence Vaughan' is a medium sized cultivar; green foliage, oval shaped, acute apex, branching habit; oval main stems, coloured green; spikes of flowers are open, yellow with red spots, staminodes are medium size, edges regular, fully self-cleaning, good 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 tuber-like groups, coloured white and pink; tillering is prolific.

Canna 'Florence Vaughan' is available from specialist growers.

In the 1990's there was confusion over this heritage cultivar and an Italian Group cultivar with pale yellow background and orange blobs was given this name by over-enthusiastic horticulturalists. The correct name for that cultivar was C. 'Roma'

The name and the correct descriptions appeared in catalogues, gardening books and encyclopedia up until the 1940's.

References

Prof. L.H. Bailey, Garden & Forest 1893

Large yellow flower , thickly and uniformly spotted with brown. Participated in the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Garden & Forest, 1894

Garden and forest. / Volume 7, Issue 326. [May 23, 1894, miscellaneous front pages, i-ii] FLORENCE VAUGHAN.-This is the best yellow spotted Canna introduced up to this time; color, lemon yellow spotted with bright red. The size and form of the flower is by far the best that has been raised to date; it has been claimed for this variety that it was the best yellow in cultivation, but the scarlet markings on the petals detract from the brightness of the yellow, and while it is unquestionably the best mottled sort, it does not equal Capt. P. De Suzzonii as a yellow variety for bedding. It is a strong, robust grower, with flowers ot the largest size with large heads, blooms freely, and for florists' sale will be very, very satisfactory. Bronze Medal awarded for this at World's Fair, Chicago, 1893. Price of the 2 preceding sorts, strong growing plants, not pot grown, 50c, each; $5 per doz.; $30 per 100. Pot grown, very strong, 60c. each; $6 per doz.; $40 per 100.

F.R. Pierson, Garden and Forest Journal, 1894

Florence Vaughan seems to have disappointed some purchasers because it was not a true yellow, as they had supposed, but on the whole it is an exceptionally fine Canna and the best of the spotted type, being a lemon color spotted with bright red. The flower is very large and so is the truss, and it has no superior in habit or in robustness.

Theophilus Hatfield, Garden & Forest, 1896

Canna 'Florence Vaughan' has been a surprise this season as a pot-plant, being the earliest to bloom and the most floriferous of any of the so-called yellow flowered varieties.

Peter Henderson & Co, Catalogue 1897

Deep yellow, mottled rich crimson.

RHS Journal of 1898-9

Conard & Jones Catalogue, 1898

Florence Vaughan. 3 ft.; rich golden yellow, thickly spotted with bright red; one of the finest yellow spotted kinds; constant bloomer. 15 cts. each; 2 for 25 cts ; $1.25 per doz. postpaid.

Railton & Co., Australia, 1900-1903

FLORENCE VAUGHAN. Undoubtedly one of the finest yellow spotted varieties yet sent out; in colour it is of a bright rich golden yellow, spotted with bright red; the flowers, which are of the largest size, of great substance, anf of perfect form, are borne in large heads and in the greatest profusion; the foliage is massive and of a rich green colour; the plants rarely exceed 3.5 to 4 feet in height.

RHS Journal of 1907-8

RHS Journal of 1908-9

Featured in 1908 outdoor trials at Wisley. Gladiolus-flowered, dark foliage and flowers yellow marked with red.

Conard & Jones Catalogue, 1915

Florence Vaughan 3½ feet. Yellow, almost covered with brilliant red dots.

Sonderegger Catalogue, 1929

FLORENCE VAUGHN. 3 ½ feet. Golden yellow, good-sized flower. Blooms very freely. One of the prettiest of the yellow varieties. Price: 20c each; 10 for $1.80, post-paid.

The I.W. Scott Co., Pittsburgh. PA, USA, Catalogue 1939

Flowers yellow with red spots. Leaves light green. Height 3½ feet.

Allen's Nurseries, Ohio, USA. Catalog 1944

Florence Vaughan (Yellow with Red spots)

Claines Canna Collection 2006

Summary: Size: Flower: Foliage: Origin: Raised by Monsieur Antoine Crozy, Lyons, France, EU in 1893. Featured in 1908 outdoor trials at Wisley, without an award.

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