DAYLILIES BY A. B. STOUT 
LINDA. 3 ft. July, Aug. Large flower with MONARCH. 3 ft. July. Much and firmly 
crinkled petals; base golden yellow with branched, with many blooms on each 
cinnamon fleck and red eye in sharp con- branch, Full, crisp, large, star-like, light 
trast to the bright and clear yellow sepals; cadmium-yellow blooms with a delicate 
practically a bicolor with pastel shaded halo of fulyous orange in mid-zone. Good 
eye-zone. Unusually long bloom season. evenings. See picture. $2.00 each. 
See picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 80 cts. MULTIFLORA., 2 ft. Aug. to Oct. A su- 
MIDAS. 314 ft. July. Medium-large, full perb finale to the Daylily season, usually 
and well spread; clear glowing orange. Very continuing beyond first frosts at Weiser 
tall, strong and erect scapes; excellent for Park. The scapes are upstanding and 
background. Tallest orange-yellow. Good much branched. Flowers clear orange and 
evenings. See picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 80cts. smallest of the Daylily species. Grassy 
MIKADO. 3 ft. June to Aug. Mikado has __ foliage. $2.50 each. 
placed first three times and second once in MULTIFLORA SUMMER HYBRIDS. 214 
four annual polls of Hemerocallis spe- ft. Late June to late Aug. Extremely long 
cialists, including 321 varieties of Daylilies. bloom season. Numerous small (2 to 3”), 
Flowers of striking color; the large spot of clear orange flowers on_ heavily branched 
mahogany-red in each petal contrasts scapes. Fragrant. See picture. $1.00 each; 
sharply with the rich orange of the rest of 5 @ 80 cts. 
the flower. Many spreading branches. See PATRICIA. 2% ft. July, Aug. Second 
picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 80 cts. choice in ballot of 321 varieties. Rated 
93.7, or .08 below Mikado. Pale yellow 
with tinge of Iemon-chrome and throat of 
flower greenish; petals and sepals of uni- 
form tone, broad and recurving like a stately 
lily. Large (5”), shapely, full flowers. Pro- 
nounced fragrance. Exceptionally good in 
hot sun andevenings. See picture. $1.50 each. 













Rodents Shun Daylilies 
“The collection purchased in 1944 has been most 
satisfactory not only for its blooms but the field mice 
and moles do not seem to relish their flavor. So I 
have decided to enlarge my Daylily bed and stop fur- 
nishing expensive food tc rodents.’’—IlsABEL BOYLE, 
Shorebam,-L.T., N. Y. 
