HEMEROCALLIS 



(From the Greek hemera, a day, and kalos, beautiful) 

 Lilxaciee 



74. Hemerocallis Middendorfii 

 English Name: Yellow day lily. 



AMUR REGION 



JUNE TO MID-JULY 



VERY fragrant, bright yellow, lilylike flowers, two to three inches 

 long, borne in clusters of two to four flowers on long upright stems 

 one and one half to three feet high. Leaves six to nine inches long 

 broadly grasslike and 

 curving, bright green. 

 Excellent in clumps in the 

 herbaceous border or rock 

 garden, or for naturalizing 

 by the water side. Good 

 also for cutting. The 

 individual flowers are 

 short-lived, but are borne 

 in good succes^i^. One 

 of the prettiest species 

 of Hemerocallis and par- 

 ticularly useful for its 

 early season, coming into 

 bloom about a month 

 before //. aurantiaca. 



A perfectly hardy 

 perennial of easiest cul- 

 ture in any garden soil, 

 in sun or shade, but does 

 best in moist, rich soil 

 and partial shade. 



Propagate by division. 



