Day Lilies or Hemerocallis 
With their lovely foliage of long, slender, drooping leaves, their 
brilliant yellow flowers, and their absolute freedom from mildew 
and rust, these lilies are a delightful addition to any perennial garden 
and most of them have the added virtue of being very hardy. They 
are as impossible to kill as the proverbial cat with nine lives. 
We have specialized with them and have eighteen varieties in 
our garden r so arranged that we have a constant succession of bloom, 
one variety following another from the middle of May untiLearly 
September. (j__ \ 
The first to come in the Spring, about May 15th, is the Dumortierii, J f^^*^ ** 
a rich orange flower, low-growing and not fragrant. This blooms i fO^ r 
cheerily for two weeks or more and is followed by the lovely, tall, 
sweet-scented Flava, the lemon day lily of our grandmother's gar- 
dens. Of this Miss Keeler says that it is so hardy that it may 
any day leap thg garden wall and grow wild like its brother the 
Fulva. /C 
fc ^ When the Flava is nearly done blooming comes on a new and 
1 5-0 /^ very beautiful iiTy^the Sovereign; its buds are brown and when the 
<j/"iO, flower opens there is a brown band on the outside, giving great dis- 
, $ -J tinction to the flower. It is a very graceful lily with a long stem and 
a delicious fragrance. 
After this in rapid succession come the Aureole; the Orangeman; \1aj 
Dr. Regel, a low-growing bright orange; Gold Dust^-very like Dr. sh--t«^ 
Regel but much smaller; Meehan's Hybrid, a large^orange flower but /e: p* 
t in my garden a low-growing plant. 
I§J± ^ ^ Aurantiaca Ma jor is highly commended by Meehan in his catalogues 
W J but w£ Tiave not been able to raise it. Evidently it is not hardy in 
^55 :=r ^MS*latitude . 
^ ^ About July 6th the Fulva makes its great showing. This old 
fashioned tawny lily is found in every cottage garden and grows 
wild by the wayside. It is really a day lily as its Greek name signifies, 
Hemerocallis, beautiful for a day. 
Many of the so-called day lilies stay open over night, as we 
found in making late evening tours in the garden with our electric 
torch. 
About the 15th of July the Thu nberg jrrybeg ins to bloom. It ' ^ 
has a long graceful stalk with mMy flower buds and its fragrance 
is delicious. It was introduced from Japan in 1S90 and is an improve- 
ment on the Flava which it is very like in color. However, it is a foot 
taller and has a much longer period of bloom. All its blossoms when 
