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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 19, 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The Yellow Day Lilies. —An old and 
well-known but none too common hardy 
flowering plant is the Lemon lily, He- 
merocallis flava, native of temperate 
Asia, and in garden cultivation since the 
beginning of the seventeenth century. It 
is long-lived, free from disease and trou¬ 
blesome insects, endures the sharpest 
frosts without harm, grows in any soil 
not too wet, and has a neat, tufted habit, 
sending up its grassy foliage and numer¬ 
ous flower scapes to a height of two feet 
by tbc middle of June. The blossoms are 
large, lily-like in form, and are very 
pleasantly scented. They last but for a 
day, but are so promptly replaced by 
newly opening buds that there is- a con¬ 
tinuous display for several weeks. The 
stems are excellent for cutting, as the 
buds open well for days when kept in 
water. The foliage droops gracefully, 
and retains its good effect until late in 
the season. About 20 years ago this 
very desirable species was strenuously 
boomed by mail order seedsmen, and 
doubtless found its way into thousands 
of gardens that had not previously known 
it. In favorable situations it lias es¬ 
caped from cultivation, and may be seen 
growing contentedly in meadows or by 
the roadside, but it has hot become nat¬ 
uralized to anything like the extent of 
the double copper day lily, II. fulva, var. 
Kwanso, which may be seen growing al¬ 
most by the acre in southern meadows. 
This is a tall-growing and late-blooming 
variety with large double tawny orange 
blossoms. It is useful in the herbaceous 
border and in shrubberies, but is so 
prone to spread out of bounds as occa¬ 
sionally to become a nuisance. Although 
this double variety of H. fulva was intro¬ 
duced to European cultivation before the 
year 1700, the type species has only lately 
found its way out of Asia, and the first 
hybrids with other kinds have just been 
produced by an Italian grower. Kwanso 
apparently does not produce seeds, but 
the type appears to seed freely and to 
cross readily with other species. There 
are several very pretty varieties of H. 
fulva aside from Kwanso, the best known 
probably being var. disticha flore-pleno, 
from North India, bearing large semi¬ 
double orange-yellow flowers with crim¬ 
son reverse. Another form has foliage 
handsomely striped with white. The 
- blooms of H. fulva have little or no 
perfume. 
Other Handsome Species, freely of¬ 
fered in this country, are H. Thunbergii, 
H. Middendorfii, and H. minor or gram- 
inea. All have fragrant blossoms, developed 
in July. Those of Middendorfii are 
pale orange in color, while those 
of Minor and Thunbergii are clear 
yellow. H. minor is quite dwarf, grow¬ 
ing scarcely more than a foot high. 
It is bright and pretty, but appears 
rather scarce in cultivation. H. Durnor- 
tierii is also dwarf in stature, and has 
rich orange blossoms that come as early 
as the first week of June. 
The Giant Yellow Day Lily. —The 
largest flowered of all yellow day lilies 
is undoubtedly H. aurantiaca major, 
which came from Japan as recently as 
1895. It is an extremely vigorous plant, 
ciuite hardy when established, and bears 
a long succession of rich reddish-orange 
blooms six inches across, beginning in 
late July. It has met a warm reception 
from lovers of fine herbaceous plants, 
and is being freely planted by those who 
know it best. Plants that will bloom 
the first year are offered for 50 cents, 
double the cost of the older kinds, and 
may be had from most hardy plant 
dealers. 
Hybrid Day Lilies. —Hybrids between 
the various species of Hemorocallis were 
practically unknown until the advent of 
H. aurantiaca, which was promptly seized 
upon by plant breeders and liberally 
crossed with the older kinds. Many hy¬ 
brid seedlings are now in trade, some of 
which have been tried on the Rural 
Grounds and found to be quite desirable. 
Others have been planted, but did not 
bloom last season. One of the best ap¬ 
pears to be Florham, a hybrid of Au¬ 
rantiaca major, raised by a New Jersey 
gardener. It is an exceedingly vigorous 
grower, and produces a great profusion 
of immense golden-yellow, sweet scented 
flowers from June until August. It is 
claimed to be the finest of all yellow day 
files. Gold Dust is quite similar, but 
blooms later, and has not shown the same 
vigor with us. It and all the following 
are of European or Oriental origin. Apri¬ 
cot is a result of crossing H. flava and 
H. Middendorfii. The plant is dwarf 
arid the blooms, which come early, are 
of a warm shade of reddish orange, well 
indicated by the name. Aureole is evi¬ 
dently a Japanese hybrid, dwarf and 
blanching in habit, with very profuse 
bright orange flowers, with reddish 
markings on the reverse of the petals. 
Estmere was produced in Germany and is 
described as a hybrid between Flava and 
Dumortierii, with early deep-yellow 
blooms on long stems. Flamid is similar, 
but has fighter colored flowers. The 
name is made up of. syllables from its 
parent Flava and Middendorfii. Luteola 
was raised in an English nursery from 
seeds of Aurantiaca major, pollenized 
with Thunbergii, and combining the free¬ 
dom of bloom of the latter with the 
great size and vigor of Aurantiaca major. 
Ii has a particularly graceful habit, grow¬ 
ing nearly four feet high, the golden yel¬ 
low flowers being six inches across. It 
certainly is a worthy rival of Florham. 
Citrina is a recent acquisition from China 
and may be a real species instead of a 
garden variety. It grows four feet high, 
with much recurved foliage, and bears 
soft citron-colored flowers that open in 
the evening, lasting 24 hours, so that it 
may be used as an evening decoration. 
The tint is said to be very pleasing under 
artificial light. The variety is strongly 
recommended as a cut flower. Oilier new 
kinds are Orangeman, slender in growth, 
with clear orange flowers in June; Dr. 
Regel, late, dark yellow; F rances, early, 
small, bright-yellow flowers, and Sover¬ 
eign, very large yellow flowers in July, 
with broad petals, bronze-red on the out¬ 
side. 
Easy to Grow.— It will be seen there 
is sufficient variety in season, color and 
habit to make a border or corner in the 
garden devoted to llemerocallis a very 
interesting place. The species and var¬ 
ieties all grow well in ordinary soil, but 
highly appreciate liberal feeding. When 
planting, the soil should be deeply dug 
and well enriched with yard manure. 
Plants should be set two or three feet 
apart, spreading the thong-like roots and 
placing the crowns just even with the sur¬ 
face. More flowers are secured if the 
clumps are divided every three years, 
which may be done in early Fall or 
Spring. For permanent effect and nat¬ 
uralization they may be left undisturbed 
for many years, but should then have an 
occasional top-dressing of old manure. 
Varieties may be multiplied to almost 
any extent by division of the clump, and 
new kinds, that may or may not have 
merit enough io pay for the trouble, can 
be laised from seeds that would best be 
sown as soon as ripe and grown under 
glass tbe first Winter. We have had 
poor success in keeping over seeds to be 
sown in Spring. Little or no Winter 
protection is needed for established plants, 
bin Fall-set divisions need some cover¬ 
ing; to prevent heaving by frost. Flor¬ 
ham, Gold Dust and most of the species 
are offered in American catalogues, but 
tbe other hybrids and novelties men¬ 
tioned are at present only procurable 
from European dealers. w. v. f. 
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Can sow more grain 
with a Gaboon hand 
— broadcast seed sower 
. than six men can sow by , 
hand. 5 acres per hour is a 
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of time. 
The Cahoon Hand 
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Is a practical machine for any size farm- 
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A THRIFTY GARDEN 
whether large or small, needs proper tools for 
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It is different. Every point of dif¬ 
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It is as much better than the old 
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3 to 
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4 
DESTROY 
SAN JOSE 
SCALE 
before it destroys your trees. The 
one absolutely sure way to eradicate 
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The original 
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I 
more 
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'' >tli out Inj ury to the Trees. Samples, Priees and Endorsement of .Experiment Stations on Application. 
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