NOTEWORTHY PERENNIALS 



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Le/^ Lemon Lily, with charming fragrance and grace; right, Kansas Gay Feather 

 or Liatris, an unusual flower of Summer. 



(Hemerocallis fulva) has a gaudy orange yellow color. The plants 

 grow from 3 feet to 5 feet high, have narrow, drooping, grass-like 

 leaves which are very graceful, and the trumpet-shaped flowers are 

 produced on spikes of from six to twelve blooms. Each flower lasts 

 only a very short time, hut new ones bloom every day. The blooming 

 period extends from early June through July for all the varieties. 

 The Lemon Day Lily (H. flava) has clear lemon or canary-yellow col- 

 ored flowers and is the better one of the two to grow in the gardens. 

 It is only 2 feet or 3 feet high and is deh'ghtfully fragrant. H. Mid- 

 dendoj'ffii is a dwarf sort with rich, golden yellow flowers. H. 

 Dumoriieri begins blooming in May and has very showy flowers of 

 a bronze yeUow on the outside and a rich yeUow inside of the petals. 

 There are many new hybrids of the Day Lilies, many of which are 

 superior in color and produce more blooms to the spike. H. Florhami 

 has deep, golden yeUow blooms with Indian-yeUow markings. The 

 petals are beautifully frilled. H. citrina has pale lemon-yellow flow- 

 ers and is a tall grower. H. Kwanso is a double form of the Orange 

 Day Lily. H. Thunbergii, a species from Japan, may be described 

 as a late-blooming Lemon Lily. 



