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Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables, and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_16 (find matches)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit trees
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1913 105
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KOW OF HELIANTI IN BLOOM—AND TUBEKS. Heliapti, A Most S^o\Vy Flow'er aqd Useful Vegetable. FOOD VAI/UE—As a hog or cattle food Helianti is far superior to anything else but as a table vegetable it must rank high, being tender and palatable, more easily digested than potatoes, and remarkably free from starch. Dr. Koch, a well known German food specialist, gives the follwing figures as units of food value :— Helianti 540-5 Turnips 133.0 Green Peas 465-0 Potatoes 126.8 This interesting comparison needs no comment. ORIGIN—The true origin ofHeiianti we do not know. It is said to be a hybrid between Helianthus doronicoides and H. decapetalus. Its taste is difficult to describe. It resembles somewhat the French artichoke and asparagus with a distinct flavor of mushrooms. May be cooked in many ways, like potatoes,, asparagus, cauliflower, oyster plant, squash, etc.. Cut and fried the tubers excel French fried potatoes. The green stalks are fine iood for cattie and may be cut repeatedly during the growing season. Helianti will give great satis- faction both as a flower and vegetable. Thereare two kinds.. Helianti White-Tubered—Tubers long and slender, white, crisp,arti'-hoke llavor,but more delicate and tasty. Flow- ers from Sept. first on. 3 for 15c.: 12 for 50c.: 10O for S3-00. Helianti Pink-Tubered—TVe find this in every way superior to the other sort. Flowers larger and finer, in dense masses fully as showy as Rudbeekia Golden Glow. It begins to bioom just one month earlier (Aug. 1st.) than the White-Tubered. Roots short, thick and rounded at the end, plump, crisp and sweet. One of the finest vegetables and most showy flowers of our garden. Fine tubers. 3 for 15c: 12 for 50c; loo for $3.00. Mks. W. N. Pike, author of "116 Ways of Using the To- mato" and various other Recipes, says: "From the ex- periments I have made with Helianti tubers I am very favorably impressed with their apparent value and possibil- ities as an addition to the list of palatable and nutritious vegetables. They require only 10 to 15 minutes to cook and maybe prepared in a variety of ways; steamed, boiled, baked or fried, and served with cream or butter sauce, etc Es- calloped or niade into a stew they have a decided oyster flavor, and fried in batter or baked in butter they taste re- markably like scallops. The resourceful housewife will find many ways of cooking and serving this new vegetable. A very showy flower and a new winter vegetable,— a complete substitute for fresh Asparagus. j_ Yields hali as.much again as Irish Potatoes. This new hybrid plant is of the Sunflower and Artichoke family, producing showy golden yellow flowers like Cosmos blossoms, in endless profusion and immense quantities of fleshy tubers, that are splendid eating fall, winter and spring. It stands bcth heat and cold and will thrive any- where in any soil or climate, and a5 a flower is very showy in any position. CULTURE-Plant tubers in spring or fall three feet apart each way in rows and hill up the same as Potatoes. Harvest the tubers during fall, winter or spring as needed. The yield is something enormous. Absolutely hardy. AS A FLOWERING PLANT-It is probably more valuable as a flower than as a vegetable. During Aug. and Sept-it is certainly wonderful and hardly excelled by our famous Rudbeekia Golden Glow.

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