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The Florists^ Review 



Afbil 23, 1914. 



QUE^N HELEN 



THE GREATEST CANNA NOVELTY 

 ^^ OF THE DECADE 



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^QUEEN 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 best novelty evor produced. 



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— Dear 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 glad to assist you in its introduction, etc. 



Yours truly, L. H. Read & Co. 



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



Deer Park, Ala.. Oct. 26, 1918. 

 Henry Emunds— Dear Sir: Your box of Queen Helen duly received, 

 and I should have written you sooner. • • ♦ There is no question but you 

 have one of the greatest novelties ever produced, and we should like to 

 know all the particulars regarding same. We have the largest and most 

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

 varieties, etc. We remain, Yours truly, 



L. H, Read & Co, 



[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.] 



Address All Orders and Correspondence: 



OrigiMtor and 

 Introducer 



HENRY EMUNDS 



The Ulaatratlon shows a plant of Oanna Queen Helen dug from oar field 

 last fall. The plant Is 24 in. across and shows 9 flower spikes cut. 



West End Horal Park, BELLEVILLE, ILL. 



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 Nurserymen have grown the udo under 

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 paratively unknown. On rich soil it 

 grows to a height of ten feet or more, 

 producing an ornamental mass of large 

 green leaves and, in the late summer, 

 long loose flower clusters, sometimes 

 three feet in length. 



The blanched shoots of the udo have 

 a characteristic flavor. Properly pre- 

 pared, they are delicious — or so the 

 author of Bulletin No. 84, just pub- 

 lished by the U. S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture, under the title of "Experi- 

 ments with Udo, the New Japanese 

 Vegetable," has found them. The plant 

 requires little care and with the same 

 space devoted to it, yields approximate- 

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 at about the same time in the spring. 

 After the first frost it dies down each 

 autumn, to come up again in the spring, 

 much as asparagus and rhubarb do. A 

 patch of it can be forced each spring 

 for at least six years, and probably 

 much longer. The flowers attract bees 

 and flies in such numbers that a field 

 of it is usually humming with insects. 

 As a honey plant, therefore, the udo 

 deserves the attention of beekeepers. 



Where greenhouses or coldframes are 

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