April '9, 1014. 



The Florists' Review 



76 



THE GREAtJ^t GaInn'A NOVELTY 

 ^^ OF THE DECADE 



QUEEN HELEN 



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3-i--inch pot plants, $3.00 each ; per dozen, $30.00 



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14 dozen at sam* rate as par dozan. Plants raady 

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^QUECN HELEN is a green-leaved sport of King Humbert, 

 ^ retaining all the good qualities that have made Humbert the 

 best Canna heretofore introduced — and Queen Helen has several 

 points of superiority over Humbert. Same orchid-like flowers, 

 golden yellow color, evenly spotted with red; stronger grower, 

 producing more than twice as many shoots per plant; flower 

 clusters larger; green-leaved, foliage large and glossy. Queen 

 Helen is a variety that in years to come will be grown more 

 generally than any other one canna. One large canna grower 

 says it is the bast novalty avar produeatf. 



This Canna originated at our place in the year 1910 and 

 the first time it was mentioned in The Florists' Review was 

 June 15, 1911, under the St. Louis items, where I had shown a 

 plant at one of our club meetings. 



Deer Park, Ala., Oct. 12, 1913. 

 Henry Emunds— De^r Sir: We note your picture of Queen Helen Canna 

 in The Review and would like to have you write us fully regarding it. 

 • * * According to the picture, this Canna must have special merits, and 

 we would be gl§id to a^ist youin its introduction, etc. 



" ■ : Yburs truly. L. H. Rkad & C<». 



I answered this Tetter by sending Mr. Read a box of flowers of Queen Helen 



Deer Park, Ala., Oct. 25, 191S. 



Henry EMUNOS-Dear Sir: Your box of Queen Helen duly received, 

 and I should have written you sooner. • • * There is no qu'-stion but you 

 have one of the gr^atg|t -qovelties ever produced, and we should like to 

 know all the partioulan losarding same. We have the largest and most 

 complete collection of Cannas in America, consisting of 170 choice named 

 varieties, etc. We >t||aiAp Yours truly, 



L. H. Reap & C<>. 



[The above testimonials are, as you note, from a gentleman who grows 

 over 150 varieties of Cannas. and who is also well known in the trade.] 



Addraas All Ordars and Cot 



indanca : 



HENRY EMUNDS 



Originator and 

 Ifltrodscer 



The IlluBtratlOD shows a plant of Canna Queen Helen dag fromonr field 

 laat fall. The plant is 24 In. acroBS and ahows 9 flower spikea cut. 



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Vincas, October rooted cut- 

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Chrysanthemums, leading va- 

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Salvias, 2^4-inch. from cut- 

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Salvias, 2-inch, from seed 2.00 



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JOHN W^tSH YOUNG 



Upsal Station, P. R. R. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



New Rose, Killarney Brilliant 



Tlie-MOST VALUABLE ROSE INTRODUCED IN MANY YEARS. 



We consider this new rose — a sport from the original pink Killarney 

 — the most valuable rose that has been introduced in many years. It 

 is well named Killarney Brilliant, on account of its brilliant color. 



It is a great improvement on the original pink Killarney; first, because 

 of its much more brilliant color, it being almost crimson in bright 

 weather, while in midwinter — in dull, cloudy and foggy weather, — when 

 the original pink Killarney loses its brilliancy and becomes badly faded, 

 Killarney Brilliant is as bright and deep a pink as the original variety 

 at its best. In addition to its great superiority in color, the flower is 

 almost twice as large, having from twenty-five to forty full-sized petals. 



It has the same desirable color that Killarney Queen possesses, but 

 has double the number of petals, making it a very double and a fuller 

 flower; and .it is also very much more productive, having the same 

 habit of growth and the same freedom of bloom as its parent. 



We have watched Killarney Brilliant growing during the past win- 

 ter, planted in the same house with the original and the double pink 

 Killarney, and when those varieties faded so as to be almost unmarket- 

 able, Killarney Brilliant was superb. Wc are thoroughly convinced that 

 it will immediately supplant the original Killarney as the standard mar- 

 ket variety, and that every up-to-date grower will be compelled to plant 

 it, on account of its great superiority. A prominent rose grower, who 

 has seen it growing, says it is the only rose he has ever seen that needs 

 no advertising; it sells itself. 



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