*’ NORTON GARDENS 
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To™see all kinds of daylilies in bloom, the Garden 
must be visited every month from April to October; 
but here on paper we will take you in a few minutes 
through the whole season in our Garden, which is in 
Hyattsville, near Washington, D. C. Although there 
are over a thousand other kinds of ornamental plants 
on the place, including 300 unnamed kinds of Jap- 
anese iris blooming in June, and many variations of 
the wild Turkscap lily, blooming in July, in the wet- 
ter ground, this survey will be limited to hemero- 
callis (daylilies, to distinguish them from lilies which 
belong to a different family). 
The breeding areas contain hundreds of unnamed 
clones that have not yet been discarded, and the 
show and stock gardens have over 300 named kinds, 
with great variety and beauty of form, size, and 
color of flowers. The early ones are mostly from one 
to two feet high when in bloom, the summer bloom- 
ers three to four feet, or a few higher. Beside these 
listed below in order of the time they usually begin 
to bloom, many new and rare creations from other 
daylily producers’ gardens may be seen. 
In early May or even in April the dwarf orange 
DR. REGEL and the unusually long-stemmed yellow 
ELIZABETH bloom, as well as the grass-leaved 
lemon GRACILIS. A little later are SOVEREIGN, 
buff, GOLDDUST, yellow, and TANGERINE, orange. 
With them, a fine light yellow, “APRICOT,” needs 
the correct name. A four-inch buff with six faint 
bright spots near the throat is yet to be named. 
BUCKEYE begins here, with large brown patches 
on the three petals. Some of the flowers of MRS. 
JONES have 7-12 segments. 
Late in May we have the star-like AUREOLE with 
black anthers, the small brown-flowered BRUNETTE 
and the old lemonlily with long-lasting pale yellow 
flowers. 
The thousands of early flowers are almost gone 
by the last of May or first part of June. SEMPER- 
FLORENS of medium height, with good yellow 
flowers on well-branched scapes, well fills this gap. 
Other good yellows here are GLORIANNA and 
QUEEN OF MAY. AJAX and SUNGOLD are 
orange. Superb newer ones will soon fill this period. 
The great variety of forms and colors gradually 
increases through June and July. So many excellent 
new seedlings fill the breeding garden then that one 
is at a loss which to select; but we have just named 
one SISTER SALLIE, blooming through June with 
large cream outer segments, and pale pastel pinkish 
petals. In early June the large pale vellow GAIETY 
and the better formed MODESTY are fine old 
Betscher originations. Here begins BIJOU, with 
small orange and dark red flowers, and the pale 
orange IRIS PERRY. Soon comes the old EUROPA, 
still good, even if wild all over the world. Our old 
bi-color, WOODRIDGE, yellow and dark red, open 
26 hours, may bloom in mid-June or various other 
times. Others in mid-June are: HANNAH DUSTIN, 
small, fine formed, light yellow flowers: J. A. CRAW- 
FORD and SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, with large 
yellow flowers; MAF, a new apple red; GLOAMING, 
light brown and yellow; LIDICE, orange brown: 
ANTARFE'S, red brown; CRAEMORE HENNA; 
CRAEMORE RUBY; VULCAN, dark red; DUCH- 
ESS OF WINDSOR, one of the best of ‘all, with 
round tipped petals of light orange and a touch of 
other colors; and the dark red MAHARAJAH. 
FRANCES is low with light orange-brown and buff 
wide open flowers; DR. HUGHES is similar. MI- 
