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measure five inches across. This is the only one that needs protection, 

 although we have found it hardy in the open with no mulching. This 

 variety flowers in July and August. 



Dumorterii. — This is of dwarfish habit, growing about two feet tall 

 with fine narrow foliage. This has clusters of lily-like fiowers, the 

 interior soft dainty yellow, the outer petals bronzy lemon. This is rather 

 an early bloomer. 



Florham. — This one has large golden, sweet scented flowers, blooming 

 in June and July. 



Flava (Yellow Day lily) is a prolific bloomer, producing large, highly 

 perfumed flowers in July and August. 



Fulva (Tawny Day lily) gives bronzy tinted yellow blooms late in 

 the season. 



Flora Plena is a type of the above with double flowers. 



Gold Dust has large yellow flowers late in the season. 



Middendorfi is a beautiful deep yellow variety. 



Thunbergii is the latest of all, bringing up the rear. So with this 

 charming family you have blooms from June until September. 



In propagating pull the clumps apart and you find individual plants 

 which you plant. 



Hibiscus (Rose Mallow). 



These are very robust plants which kill to the ground like peony tops 

 every winter and come up strong again in the spring. The plants are 

 strong growing, from three to five feet tall. The tops should be cut 

 down and removed or the next year the plants will have a ragged ap- 

 pearance. The flowers are very large, often five inches across. Their 

 place is in the background. If planted in front of ornamental shrubbery, 

 they are very effective. 



Golden Bowl, though classed as a perennial, is really an annual an<J 

 should be treated as such. We have raised them, but they have been dis- 

 carded. Sow early and they bloom profusely, but the first hard frost 

 kills them, root and all. If dug before frost, they can be carefully stored 

 and they will live over. 



Crimson Eye has a snowy white, large beautiful flower, very effective. 

 The center is deep crimson, which contrasts beautifully with the pure 

 white. 



Palustris is evidently a sport or variation of the same flower. It is a 

 soft refined pink with a crimson eye. We are claiming this as our own 

 but it is probably a variation of the old favorite. 



Moscheutos (Swamp Rose Mallow). — This is a strong growing plant, 

 growing wild on the borders of our marshes. I think this is a variety 

 growing on the Elkhorn river in Nebraska. The flower is large unitorm 

 pink, with no deeper color in the center. 



Militaris is the rankest grower of all, making a strong bushy plant 

 laden with large pink flowers with a very deep red center. 



An Eastern firm has been making especial efforts to improve these 

 flowers and now have various striking colors called Mallow Marvels. 



