OUR 
1945 and 1946 Daylily Introductions 
Yellows and Bicolors 
CAPITOLA 
(1946.) This 414-inch bloom is one of the most striking color combinations. Its wide ruffled 
and crinkled petals are rich rose with a buff-colored mid-rib and a deeper rose eye zone. Its sepals 
are a real buff-yellow and the throat sulphur-green. Slightly recurved and keeps well in the evening 
as a cut flower. This is a Daylily that will be remembered a long time. 3 ft. May, June. $2.00.. 
EDITH RUSSELL : 
(1946.) This is the first Daylily I have ever seen which has sepals darker than its petals. Its 
wide petals completely overlap the sepals and a part of the next petal. The color is a shade of 
yellow I have never before seen—not chrome, cream, nor lemon, but exactly the color of sulphur 
with rose veins, profusely ruffled. The huge open throat is a slightly deeper shade of sulphur. 
Sepals are the deepest rose sprinkled with gold dust, as though a jeweler had taken powdered gold 
and done this work. The flower holds up longer at night than any variety in our field, and can be 
classed as one of the few that we can use as a cut flower. It has a heavy, leathery texture. I had 
no intention of introducing this variety until 1948, but due to the fact that it is a vigorous grower, 
I am able to do so now. Blooms 41% inches. 3 ft. May, June. $5.00. 
FRANCIS RUSSELL 
(1946.) Now after many years, I have decided on the Daylily to name for Mrs. Russell. Its 
wide overlapping petals are palest lemon with a rich overcast of lavender and a wide slightly deeper 
lavender eye zone and a huge yellow throat. Sepals are lemon, with a faint lavender edge. The 
unusual thing about this Daylily is that the buds begin to open in the evening and remain open 
all night and all the next day until long after the next night’s buds have opened, making two 
complete sets of blooms at a time. This variety can well be used as a cut flower. Its huge blooms 
are 6 inches across and its height is only 214 ft. The straight, stiff, erect stems make it a real find 
in Daylilies. May, June. $5.00. 
GOLD MEADOWS 
(1946.) A huge 6-inch flower with stiff firm petals of a leathery texture, lightest canary-lemon, 
slightly ruffled. Unusually tall and stately, and one of the finest huge pale lemons. This variety 
could be used in place of a tall shrub, and I have counted as many as 350 buds on a three-year-old 
plant. 4144 ft. May, June. $2.00. 
MAMIE LAKE 
This lovely variety was named for the past President of the Texas Federation of Garden Clubs 
and is one of the most unusual colors ever found in a Daylily. Its has blooms 6 to 7 inches across 
with lemon sepals and fairly wide rosy petals with deeper rose eye zone. 4 ft. $3.00. 
RUSSELL’S MINUET 
For you who wish a dwarf lily with large 41-inch blooms for your rock garden or the foreground 
of your border, this it it. The wide overlapping petals are rich rose, ruffled, and with a wide yellow 
stripe down the center of each. The sepals are pale canary. The stems stand stiff and erect, and are 
simply enveloped in bloom. 20 to 24 in. May, June. $2.00. 
Rose to Pink 
The fact that we have had to list these particular colors at a very much higher price does not 
necessarily make them any more beautiful than many others. But it must be remembered thats 
rose and pink Daylilies are a novelty, and their newness and scarcity prohibits a lower price at this 
time, though I believe they are well worth the money to those who feel they can afford them. 
Every one we listed last year in this class was completely sold out before the season was one-fourth 
over. Our stock this year is also limited. 
CHALICE : 
(1946.) I shouldn’t list this variety yet, because I know the demand is going to be so great I 
will not be able to meet it. Our stock is very limited, therefore we are not making delivery on this 
variety until the fall of 1947. This I believe to be the pinkest Daylily ever introduced. It is not 
a baby pink, but the loveliest, deepest, softest shade of salmon-pink I have ever seen in a Daylily, 
with a slightly deeper rose-pink eye zone. While this is a very strong, vigorous grower and quite a 
profuse bloomer, it does not multiply as fast as some in its color class, therefore we are forced to 
ask this price. The 414-inch blooms open full, with the loveliest sulphur-yellow throat. Ruffled 
petals, slightly recurved. 4 ft. May, June. Reserve yours now. $25.00. 
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