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SEEDLINGS OF FULVA 



Figure 5 



Including the single seedling recently grown by Amos Perry, these seedlings with four 

 others not here shown are apparently the first and the only seedlings ever obtained from the 

 fulva variety of day lily. These are all hybrids with fulva as a seed parent. The two at 

 the rear have for their pollen parent a wild plant from China somewhat resembling the 

 true fulva. The three in the middle row have as the pollen parent the well known 

 H. Thnmbergii, which has flowers of a lemon yellow color. The two at the front are from 

 pollen of the rather recently introduced species, H. citrina. 



but I have never yet found a single pod, 

 and fairly persistent inquiries have failed 

 to bring to light an instance of its seeding. 



Evidently many similar efforts to se- 

 cure seed of fulva have failed for 

 there appears to be no successes re- 

 ported previous to those recorded by 

 the writer 1 ' 2 . The first of these seeds 

 obtained from fulva were from the 

 pollen of H. Thunbergii and they did 

 not germinate. Efforts to obtain cap- 

 sules with viable seeds were continued 

 with such success that at this date 

 plants of the true fulva have matured 

 23 capsules containing a total of TO 

 seeds apparently fully mature and from 

 this seed eleven seedlings are now being 

 grown. Only two other authentic rec- 

 ords of seed produced by the fulva 

 variety have been found by the writer, 

 either in printed records or through 

 a rather extended correspondence. In a 



letter dated Nov. 18, 1925, Mr. Amos 

 Perry, well known nurseryman of En- 

 field, England, lists a variety "Maggie 

 Perry" as derived from the cross 

 fulva X fulva var. Cypriana. In a let- 

 ter dated Jan. 22, 1926, Dr. J. R. Mc- 

 Leland, of Pleasanton, Kansas, writes 

 as follows : 



I have never been able to cross Hemero- 

 callis fulva with anything that would do 

 more than make it set empty seed pods, 

 with two exceptions when I used pollen of 

 H. citrina I got two pods with one seed 

 each but neither germinated. 



Among the various persons who 

 have undertaken to breed day lilies 

 there may be others who have obtained 

 seed and even seedlings of fulva but 

 of whom the writer has not heard. 



But plants of the fulva do not read- 

 ily yield seed to cross-pollination with 

 the other species and varieties of da; 



