The reds have become one of the gorgeous creations of the 
plant world. Ella Winchester, a beautiful velvety red of 
unusually fine form is constantly growing in favor. Garden 
Magic, new last year and one we were proud to offer, is, we 
think, the best red we have seen, notwithstanding the 
idiosyncrasies of rating judges. Red Douglas, a darker red, 
has been widely praised. The late Mr. Thomas of Salt Lake 
City gave us a fine red in Piute, a self, similar in form to 
Numa Roumestan, but much richer, a clear deep red. 
Junaluska, a soft toned red, makes instant friends. Burning 
Bronze, so aptly named, is the best of the dusky reds. 
The whites are striking examples of the great development 
in irises. Gudrun is one of the whites that causes arguments. 
We grow it well and it is greatly admired. Easter Morn and 
Venus de Milo, wonderful whites, are now low in price and 
there are none better. Every garden needs them. Purissima 
is ideal where it grows well. It flourishes with us and in 
other midwest gardens and its early reputation for tender¬ 
ness has not been altogether born out. When it consents to 
flourish, it is the ideal white. 
Snow King is a magnificent iris and well named. Crystal 
Beauty, even whiter, is also descriptively named. Of different 
form but equally fine is Our Lady of the Snows which we 
are introducing for Dr. A. E. Waller of Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity. 
For years hybridists have been trying to breed the purple 
tints out of the so-called blue irises and they are making a 
fine approach to clear blues. Sierra Blue, 1935 Dykes 
medalist, and Shining Waters, are two of the best, the 
latter of exquisite tone. Missouri stands out as the best all- 
around medium toned velvety blue. It's a beauty. Blue 
Triumph, on the lighter side of the color range, is a mag¬ 
nificent flower on widely branched stalks with blooms of 
very heavy texture. Narain and Dymia are burning dark 
shades of the tones used by the old masters. They are 
splendid and needed additions to the dark side of the blues 
with fine height and branching. Television Blue, of the 
lovely old Corrida coloring, is being introduced this year. 
Wasatch and Seduction are striking examples of the 
plicata type, Rosy Wings a lovely rose-colored flower, and 
Siegfried, the new peach-toned plicata introduced by Hans 
P. Sass last year, is perhaps the most outstanding iris of 
the past decade. 
The iris that caused the most comment in our garden last 
year because of its unusual coloring was a fascinating pink 
blend with dainty pink standards. We have named it 
Morocco Rose. The color plate hardly does it justice, but it 
is extremely difficult to reproduce the subtle gradations of 
color in these delicate blends. This came from the garden of 
Dr. P. A. Loomis, who consents all too seldom to the intro¬ 
duction of his beautiful seedlings 
We wish to call attention at this time to the remarkable 
and beautiful developments in an old time garden favorite, 
the hemerocallis, commonly known as lemon lilly, corn 
1 illy, yellow day lilly. 
This plant has been the subject of vast improvement at 
the hands of the hybridists quite similar to the strides made 
in irises for several years past. In the other days we knew 
only two species, the old lemon lilly, Hemerocallis flava, 
blooming in mid-May, and the tawny day lilly, the reddish 
one that blooms in July and August, spreads mightily and 
lustily, and has escaped and naturalized along roadsides. 
The color range now, thanks to wedding the tawny day 
lilly with yellow species ranges from creamy pale yellow tO' 
brilliant reds. Where formerly there w r ere only the two 
commonly known, we now have scores of varieties with a 
blooming season ranging from May until September The 
yellows in great varieties are particularly fine companions 
for the iris and there are a number of them bloom with the 
iris. The newer varieties do not spread by underground 
stolons as do the old lemon and tawny day lillies. They stay 
w'here they are put, the clumps merely enlarging. They are 
remarkably free bloomers. 
The day lillies are the hardiest kind of perennials, do well 
in any soil, even dry, sandy soil, thrive in sun or shade, 
range in height from 2 to 4 feet. The foliage is curving, 
ornamental and always fresh and green. 
The plant is known as a day lilly because each bloom 
endures for only a day, but the stems bear a great many 
buds which open successively, so there is always a display. 
Among the later season varieties are some that are evening 
bloomers and particularly effective at the close of sultry 
afternoons. Most of the varieties have a delightful fragrance. 
We believe that you will find new beauty and garden 
pleasure in planting hemerocallis with your irises, and by 
selection according to their season, have a continuous display 
of them all summer. Later they are fine specimens with the 
globe thistles, delphiniums, hardy salvias and other blue 
perennials. Once planted, you needn't bother more with 
them for a number of years; a most convenient and beau¬ 
tiful plant. 
The Freeport Iris Show will be held this year on June 5th 
and 6th, unless it is necessary to change the dates because 
of weather conditions. We shall have on display in Quality 
Gardens some fine American seedlings. You are invited to 
visit our gardens to see them and the many other fine 
varieties on display. 
We are particularly thrilled at the prospect of seeing in 
bloom the seedlings exhibited by Mr. Howard Glutzbeck, 
of Lynbook, New York, at Rockefeller Center Horticultural 
Hall last season, one of which, a huge and colorful variegata, 
won the silver medal Mr. Glutzbeck has complimented us 
by sending them here for our judgment and for that of the 
many judges who come here to see the newest things. We 
have a fine set of seedlings from Mr. Sam Graham, of Rome, 
Ga., whose good taste in iris is unquestioned. Mr. Cahoon. 
of Birmingham, Ala., has also sent us some to judge. We 
have a splendid lot from the gardens of Mr. Hans P. Sass, 
of Elkhorn, Neb., and Mr. Jacob Sass, of Benson Station, 
Neb. We also have the new yellow iris exhibited by Mr. 
Pilkington at Chelsea last year, and highly commended by 
the English Iris Society Bulletin. We have single plants lrom 
many hybridizers all eager to try their luck with the judges. 
Visit Quality Qardens at Iris time. 
Mrs. Douglas Pattison 
Quality Garden s 
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