Recently while visiting the Luther Burbank home in a town nearby where I live, I took some photos of the Canna plantings there. Burbank introduced a few Cannas, and the garden at his home contains many plants that he hybridized or introduced and many plants related to his work. While photographing some of the plants a tour came through, and I was amused to hear the docent declare that 'Yellow King Humbert' was a Burbank introduction. (Nowhere in the extensive volumes published posthumously on his plant introductions and breeding, is this to be found as a Burbank plant.) What was labeled Yellow King Humbert was what I think is Richard Wallace (Ian Cooke says that Yellow Humbert is 'a confusing name often used and attatched to various cultivars' including 'Richard Wallace'.)

I include here a picture of that Canna, an overview of the Burbank garden planting of Cannas, and a few others which are either mislabled (I think) or lack labels. Can anyone help me to identify these.

Particularly noteworthy is the large clump of what purports to be Rosamond Coles and which looks to me like it might be Cleopatre (the French cultivar, not Cleopatra), but I have never seen Cleopatre except in photos.

Thanks,

Gregg

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