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of the interest in its work the following procedure is being con- 

 sidered. An attempt will be made to propagate five of the best 

 of the new seedlings representing several distinct types until 

 there are 25 to 50 plants of each — a matter of three to five years 

 of continuous propagation. Then notice will be sent to all mem- 

 bers and at least one plant will be supplied to any member of 

 The New York Botanical Garden as long as the supply will permit. 

 Thus the members of the Garden will obtain plants which, at that 

 time, can be obtained in no other way. 



Descriptions or mention of newly named seedlings have ap- 

 peared from time to time in certain publications of The New York 

 Botanical Garden* and in other botanical and horticultural publi- 

 cations. Some of these clones, such as Soudan, Vesta, Cinnabar, 

 Mikado, and Wau-Bun, are now in many gardens and also in the 

 hands of various nurserymen. 



Four of the selections which are to be distributed to the trade 

 this autumn for the first time by the Farr Nursery Company are 

 illustrated in the figures accompanying this article. The names 

 given to these are Rajah, Dauntless, Bagdad, and Sonny. The 

 photographs here reproduced with the brief descriptions indicate 

 the outstanding characters of these new daylilies. 



Other daylilies which are to be introduced soon are as follows : 



The Midas Daylily. A robust plant with a clear and rich 

 orange color in the flowers. 



The Patricia Daylily. A plant slightly lower in stature than 

 the Sonny Daylily, and also its flowers are different in shape 

 and in shade of yellow. 



The Serenade Daylily. A robust plant with slender bending 

 scapes and flowers of crinkled and wavy petals and delicate and 

 subdued shades of pale yellow and pale fulvous. 



The Summer Multiflora Hybrids. About fifty almost 

 identical sister seedlings are being propagated as a group to provide 

 for the immediate distribution of a new class of small-flowered 

 orange-colored daylily for midsummer flowering. 



The Chengtu Daylily. This is a fulvous daylily from China. 

 It is less course, more dainty in habit of growth, and more attrac- 

 tive in its flower colors than any other of the fulvous daylilies 

 thus far obtained from the Orient, with the possible exception 

 of the H. fulva rosea, which is quite different in shades of color. 



A. B. Stout, 

 Director of the Laboratories, 

 Tin. New York Botanical Garden. 



August 15, 1935. 



* Set- especially "Notes on New Hybrid Daylilies," in Jour. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 32: 25-33. 1931. "The Bijou Daylily," Jour. N. Y. Bot Gard. 33: 

 1-4. 1932. "The Soudan Daylily," Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 33: 104-105. 

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