JOURNAL 



OF 



The New York Botanical Garden 



Vol. XXXIII January, 1932 No. 385 



THE BIJOU DAYLILY. OF A NEW SMALL-FLOWERED 



RACE 



The Bijou Daylily is a selection from many seedlings of a new 

 horticultural race of small-flowered daylilies developed by hy- 

 bridizations with the wild species Hemerocallis multi flora. This 

 species 1 has small flowers and the scapes are slender and much 

 branched, bearing numerous blossoms. These characteristics are 

 decidedly in evidence in all of the F 1 hybrids having H. multi- 

 flora for a parent that have thus far been obtained. In regard to 

 flower colors, a rather wide range of types of species and hybrids 

 were hybridized with the H. multiflora, including some with ful- 

 vous and with red shades, and as a result yellow, orange, and ful- 

 vous red colors are all obtained in the various hybrids. 



The progenies of the various hybridizations involving H. multi- 

 flora now comprise several hundred seedlings. These provide 

 excellent material for further selective breeding, especially in the 

 efforts to obtain plants with still smaller flowers of greater num- 

 ber per scape, and such breeding is now in progress. But several 

 of the most attractive seedlings already obtained seem worthy of 

 general culture and these are now being propagated. One of 

 these has been given the horticultural name Bijou and this plant 

 is here described in print for the first time. 



The seedling to be propagated as the clon Bijou Daylily is now 

 only two years old and it has thus far been grown on rather poor 

 soil. It has shown a noteworthy vigor in the rapid spread of root- 

 stocks in the crown, which makes for rapid propagation. The 

 scapes have reached a height of about two feet, which is consider- 



1 The species Hemerocallis multiflora was first described and illustrated 

 with a colored plate in Addisonia (14 : fl. 464 J. 1929.) Later this species 

 was discussed and illustrated by photographs in the Journal of The New 

 York Botanical Garden 31 : 34-39. 



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