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in these plants of H. m id ti flora may be expected to give somewhat 

 different habits of growth to the offspring from hybridization with 

 other day lilies. 



The species H. multiflora is itself not especially valuable as a 

 garden plant. The flowers are of fair size and rather full with 

 pleasing form and color, but they are scarcely large enough or suf- 

 ficiently numerous on any one day to give a showy display of 

 color in the garden. 



Several plants of Hemerocallis multiflora have already been 

 hybridized with other species, including some of those that bloom 

 earliest in spring. This was accomplished by saving the pollen of 



Figure 5. Typical flowers of Hemerocallis multiflora, about four-fifths 

 natural size, showing the two extremes in orientation which flowers of 

 daylilies may assume. The color is of a shade between chrome and cad- 

 mium-yellow — a grade of orange-yellow — and the surface is gold-glistening. 



the latter. Many seedlings have also been obtained in crosses with 



hybrids and with named horticultural clons, including some that 



have large flowers and some that have flowers with pink and with 



fulvous colors. It is the hope that the desirable characteristics of 



H. multiflora, such as long period of blooming, numerous flowers 



to a scape, and late blooming, will appear among the offspring in 



combinations that give somewhat new types of daylilies for garden 



culture. 



A. B. Stout. 



