HEMEROCALLIS 
(DAYLILIES) 
The Dependable Lily for 
Maximum Enjoyment 
with Minimum Effort 
Ease of Culture. The common Daylily, Europa, has 
distributed and naturalized itself purely by vegetative 
reproduction throughout Europe and North America, 
overcoming weeds, neglect, poor soil, insect pests, and 
drought as it thrived. The selected new varieties retain 
the vigor of their ancestors. The Daylily garden does not 
require an array of sprayers, insecticides, and garden tools, 
or a chart for feeding and cultural requirements. 
Adaptability. No plant as beautiful and desirable as 
the Daylily is as adaptable to varying conditions. Whether the location 
be sheltered or exposed, drained or swampy, sun-baked or partly 
shaded—whether the soil be rich or poor, acid or lime, sand or clay, 
cultivated or weedy—is of little concern to a Daylily. Eurthermore, 
there are heights, colors, seasons, and sizes for practically every gar¬ 
den feature, nook, and mood. 
Four Months of Bloom. Tangerine, Sovereign, Estmere, Gold 
Dust, and others bloom by mid-May in our locality. Scores of good 
varieties follow and overlap throughout June, July, and early August. 
Then begin Hemerocallis multiflora, Boutonniere, and August Pioneer, 
extending until mid-September. 
Summer Bloom. When heat and drought have parched the 
lawns and gardens and when other favorites are out of season, a 
collection of Daylilies will produce an unfailing and unaffected pro¬ 
fusion of bloom display and cut-flowers. The July—August garden 
can be veritably transformed by the liberal addition of Daylilies. 
Fragrance. Daylily fragrance, as it exists in the lighter shades, is 
identical to lily fragrance but not as sweet and overwhelming. It is 
pleasingly pervading, yet unobtrusive as an indoor cut-flower; and 
both elusive and radiant in the garden. 
Foliage Value. Daylily foliage is ornamental, clean, and insect 
free. Foliage in the different clones and species varies in shades of 
green, in height, in width, and in carriage. Many kinds bear foliage 
which is evergreen in the South and green and lush in the North 
until severe freezing temperatures arrive. 
Permanence. Go back to the scenes of your grandparents’ child¬ 
hood and find Daylily plants from which they picked blooms as 
children. The Daylilies you plant can remain for your great¬ 
grandchildren. 
Daylily Use. The semi-dwarf and medium sorts now available 
are especially valuable to the summer rock-garden and for perennial 
foregrounds. Other types are respectively useful in the perennial 
middleground and background, in the shrubs for border foreground, 
as specimens, in beds, borders and masses by themselves, in natural¬ 
ized colonies, and along pools and streams. 
HEMEROCALLIS (Dayl ilies) General List | 
KEY: Bloom, season, and height immediately precede full 
descriptions. " indicates inches bloom spread. 
Apricot. (Yeld.) May, June; 2 ft. Broad, 3", widely open; distinct, 
rich apricot. Early; free-blooming. 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
D. D. Wyman. (Betscher.) July; 3 ft. Golden yellow with tawny 
splash on large 6" petals. 75 cts. each; 5 @ 60 cts. 
Estmere. (Yeld.) May, June; 2]/2 ft. Flowers medium full, 4", 
widely spreading, pale yellowish orange reversed brown. Bloom- 
stems spread and bend gracefully, bringing the flowers into various 
levels around the dome of grassy foliage. Of the very best. $1 each. 
Europa (Roadside Daylily). July; 4 ft. Recorded almost four 
hundred years ago in Europe and brought to this country by 
settlers. Flowers are full, 4}^", overcast fulvous, veined darker, 
w’ith orange throat. Strictly day-blooming; delicate, but sun- 
resistant texture. 35 cts. each; 5 @ 25 cts. 
“Fulva” Clone Maculata (Maculata Daylily). July; 3 ft. Bold, 
outcurving coppery orange, shaded crimson. Larger, 6", and later 
than Europa. $1 each; 5 @ 80 cts. 
Golden Bell. (Wallace.) June, July; 3 ft. Trumpet-shaped, pale 
apricot-orange flowers; very full, 4", and of fine substance. 50 cts. 
each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Gold Dust. May, June; 2 ft. A neat, elegant, low grower. Empire 
yellow, reverse bronze, 4". One of the best early varieties. 50 cts. 
each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Goldeni. (Betscher.) Early July; 3 ft. Deep golden orange; full, 
4". 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Gold Imperial. July, Aug.; 2J4 ft- Rich golden orange, broad 
petals waved and crinkled, reverse darker, 4)^" across. $1 each; 
5 80 cts. 
Gypsy. (Betscher.) Late July; 4 ft. Light orange, full 4" across. 
50 cts. each; 5 (gj, 40 cts. 
Hyperion. (Meade.) July, Aug.; 4 ft. Canary-yellow. Flowers 
large, 5-6"; full, numerous and fragrant. Long bloom season. 
75 cts. each; 5 60 cts. 
A DAYLILY BARGAIN—for Naturalizing 
The Roadside Daylily attests to the unusual properties of the 
race for naturalizing. We offer the following bargain assortments 
accordingly. Keep them weeded for the first year, and little, if any, 
further attention will be required. 
(Named, our selection, packed separately) 
10 Daylilies in 5 varieties for $3.50 
20 Daylilies in 5 varieties for 5.00 
20 Daylilies in 10 varieties for 7.00 
HEMEROCALLIS, General List, continued 
Kwanso fl.-pl. July; 3J4 ft. Large, 5", double, coppery orange 
flower on heavy stems. 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Ophir. (Farr.) Early July to mid-Aug.; 4)/^ ft. Waxy golden yellow 
flowers, 5" across, 6" long; strong stems 4 to 5 feet high. One stem 
usually carries 25 or more successively opening, giant, heavy- 
textured and lasting flower^. Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural 
Society of England. An exceptionally long bloom season and an 
unusually fine Daylily. The Inside of a fresh bloom is a reflected 
haze of deep gold. 75 cts. each; 5 @ 60 cts. 
Queen of May. June; 2)/^ ft. A taller and larger early variety. 
Flowers full, broadly spread to 4". Pale apricot-orange. Almost 
invariably repeats bloom in autumn. 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Royal. July; 3J4 ft. Golden yellow, 4" flowers, Hyperion beauty of 
texture. 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Sir Michael Foster. (Muller.) June, July; 4 ft. Clear apricot- 
yellow; sweet-scented, with extra-long, funnel-shaped throats, 
measuring 5-6" across. 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
Sirius. (Yeld.) June, July; 32 in. Wide and funnel-shaped, rich 
orange with faint red tinge; medium full, 4" spread. Trace of a 
faint brown-red eye. Petals charmingly crinkled and margins 
wavy. $1 each. 
Sovereign. May; 20 in. Semi-dwarf in habit, with pale chrome- 
yellow, 33>^" flowers, shaded brown on outside. Neat foliage. 
Award of Merit, R. H. S., 1931. 75 cts. each; 5 @ 60 cts. 
Tangerine. May; 20 in. Another semi-dwarf, early variety noted 
for its clear, deep shade of orange, with plump buds tinged red. 
Blooms attractively set just above the foliage-tips in full dome 
radius. Award of Merit, R. H. S., 1931. $1 each; 5 @ 80 cts. 
The Gem. (Betscher, 1929.) July, Aug.; 3 ft. Deep orange-yellow 
or apricot, 4^2''■ 50 cts. each; 5 @ 40 cts. 
THE GOLD OF OPHIR 
It was quite appropriate when Bertrand H. Farr recalled the gold 
mines of Solomon and named Hemerocallis “Ophir,” for no other 
plant variety we have ever handled has enjoyed such continued 
demand and such fixed value. Here are entirely unsolicited and 
unexpected letters which confirm the merits of Ophir. 
All last summer I intended writing you about the Hemerocallis you sent. 
They were very splendid. One plant—Ophir—had at one time over a hundred 
blooms. It was the most lovely thing 1 ever saw.— Mrs. Jacques Busbee, 
Steeds, N. C. 
I believe Farr’s Ophir is the most satisfactory. If I could have only one I 
would choose it, as it always does well regardless of our seasons which arc 
pretty hot and dry out here.—L. F. Valentine, Clay Center, Kans. 
We have often wondered why our enduring favorite, Ophir, hasn’t had a 
friend at court who would advertise it to its full worth. To us it is the finest 
and most vigorous and most dependable of fully a hundred sorts.— Port Rose 
Garden, Freeport, Ill. 
I got two clumps of Ophir from you two years ago. They are now in bloom 
and are decidedly the loveliest things of their species that I have ever seen.— 
Dr. Guy Steele, Cambridge, Md. 
The Ophir Daylilies purchased from you started to bloom June 28, ended 
July 24. The temperature was 111° on two days and over 100° nearly every 
day, with no rain.—S. A. Garretson, 3712 Orleans Ave., Sioux City, Iowa. 
WEISER PARK, PENNSyLVANIA 
