The Cinnabar Daylily 



The special charm of the Cinnabar Daylily (Figure i) is in 

 the rich fulvous coloring of its flowers. The plant has an excel- 

 lent and semi-robust habit of growth. In New York it blooms 

 during July, and its flowers are of good size, widely open, and 

 numerous. 



The throat of the flower is a clear cadmium-yellow ; the outer 

 half of the petals is covered, or at times somewhat streaked, with 

 a vinaceous-rufous shade of red, and the sepals are somewhat 

 more solidly of this color. Both the sepals and the petals are 



Figure i. Flowers of the Cinnabar Daylily, showing face and side 

 view, about one-half natural size. Some indication is given of the deli- 

 cate coating of vinaceous-rufous coloring that covers the cadmium- 

 yellow in the outer half of the face of the open flower. 



strongly gold-glistening in sunlight. The flowers are, therefore, 

 of a rich but delicate shade of brownish red. 



At present there is no other variety in the trade that closely 

 resembles the Cinnabar Daylily. It is judged to be the best for its 

 particular grade of coloring among the many seedlings with ful- 

 vous colors now at hand for selection. Wider petals and fuller 



