DAYLILIES g pe A. 8. Stow 
Distinctive 
Qualities 
of Stout 
Daylilies 
A Question 
About Prices 
The Answer 
They Won’t 
Sell Them 
The Story Behind 
and About Them 
EFORE the first World War, Dr. A. B. Stout, then a young man be- 
ginning research in botany, became interested in the possibilities of the 
Daylily. . 
He envisioned new colors and combinations of color; new and longer 
seasons of bloom; larger and smaller blooms; improvements in bloom and 
plant habits. 
He realized that such improvements in Daylilies, hardiest and most 
vigorous of perennials, would increase garden beauty and decrease garden 
labor. 
During thirty years, therefore, Dr. Stout has obtained wild and varied 
species of Daylilies, new to science, from China, Mongolia, Siberia, Man- 
churia, Korea, and Japan; also from various Botanical Gardens of Europe. 
For thirty years he has scientifically hybridized the species and followed 
this by several generations of selective breeding. With him, we have ob- 
served, recorded, evaluated and selected, slowly and painstakingly from 
approximately 150,000 selectively bred seedlings. 
In this study thousands of seedlings have been discarded and destroyed. 
A new color merely means much further and selective breeding for the 
qualities that make a Stout Daylily—the qualities that are listed below, the 
qualities that you can expect in your garden. 
Pleasing variety and diversity in color patterns, in colors, in habits of 
growth, in season of bloom, in size of flowers. 
Blooms that do not bleach, curl or wilt prematurely. 
Blooms that ‘‘clean’”’ themselves, i.e. the wilted flowers drop quickly 
and do not long remain to detract from their successors. 
Plants that bloom freely and dependably for a long season. 
Plants that are not tender to cold winters. 
‘ Stems that are neither too heavy nor too light for the type of blooms they 
ear. 
Healthy and lush foliage to beautify the garden continuously. 
Blooms that are not hidden in, or too far above, the foliage. 
Blooms that remain open until after sunset. 
It is our privilege to offer in this catalog the rare survivors, less than one in 
2000, of the tests for these qualities. Every one of the varieties listed is 
worthy of choice space in your garden. 
‘‘Your Stout Daylilies, I think, have no superiors. I am amazed at your 
low three-dollar charge. Look at other catalogs running up to $10.00 to 
$15.00. Why don’t you?””—DR. HENRY D. WATSON, 151 Front St., Bing- 
hamton, N. Y., August 8, 1946. 
The exclusive privilege of introducing Dr. Stout’s selections was granted 
to the Farr Nursery Co. because Mr. Farr collaborated with Dr. Stout al- 
most thirty years ago, when few others believed in the possibility of new 
colors in Daylilies. It was agreed that no introduction of these Daylilies 
would ever be priced at more than $3.00 per plant. 
The result has been fixed, staple value for Stout Daylilies. Instead of a 
high introductory price, followed by a collapse in value, many Stout Day- 
lilies continue to be recurrently sold out, ten and more years after intro- 
duction, at $3.00 each. 
Some time ago we wrote to 100 Farr customers in an effort to replenish 
our supply of various Stout Hybrid Daylilies on which we were oversold. 
We offered $2.00 per division, which, due to growth since purchase, would 
have enabled these people to receive from three to six times their original 
investment of $3.00 per plant. 
Of the hundred written to, less than a half dozen were willing to disturb 
their plants and to part with the increase that had developed. 
FARR NURSERY CO., BERKS COUNTY, 
