THE DAY-LILY. 



Eemerocallis Jlava. 



f HE day-lily is not in high repute. 

 Nevertheless there are not many 

 plants that can surpass it in use- 

 fulness or beauty. Imprimis, it 

 will grow in any soil, and if the 

 villainous spade chops its unseen 

 roots, it will come through the trial 

 and sprout up again in the way of 

 a mutilated horse-radish. It will 

 thrive under the deep shade of 

 plantations where the ground is as 

 dry as dust all the summer, and 

 pretty well exhausted of all good- 

 ness by the hungry roots of the 

 trees. When in flower a large 

 clump presents a beautiful appear- 

 ance, and when not in flower the 

 fresh cheerful green and the elegant outlines of the sword 

 or sickle-shaped leaves are pleasing features. But there 

 .remains to be told a fact "not generally known," and 

 it is that this beautiful lily may be turned to excellent 

 account to furnish fodder to cattle, and more especially to 

 cows in milk. 



As garden plants the day-lilies deserve much more 



