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color of the flowers is light cadmium, slightly sprinkled with faint 

 traces of fulvous red, and abundantly gold-glistening. The com- 

 bination of color and form gives flowers of rare charm. The plant 

 is semi-robust ; the scapes are ascending rather than erect ; the 

 period of bloom in New York is July. The Wau-Bun Daylily has 

 for its ancestry the two species H. flava and H. aurantiaca and 

 the Luteola Daylily, but it is very distinct from any of these. The 

 same form of flower has appeared in various other hybrids and 

 some of these, together with Wau-Bun, are being used in further 

 breeding. 



The Vesta Daylily is a sister seedling to Wau-Bun but the two 

 are so different that the relationship would scarcely be suspected. 



Figure 3. A flower of Wau-Bun Daylily, showing the unusual form 

 characterisl ic of this plant. 



