Daylilies wy a. 8. stout 
LINDA. 3 ft. July, Aug. Large flower with 
crinkled petals; base golden yellow with 
cinnamon fleck and red eye in sharp con- 
trast to the bright and clear yellow sepals; 
practically a bicolor with pastel shaded 
eye-zone. Unusually long bloom season. 
See picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 80 cts. 
MIDAS. 314 ft. July. Medium-large, full 
and well spread; clear glowing orange. Very 
tall, strong and erect scapes; excellent for 
background. Tallest orange-yellow. Good 
evenings. See picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 
80 cts. 
MIKADO. 3 ft. June to Aug. Mikado was 
placed first three times and second once in 
four annual polls of Hemerocallis spe- 
cialists, including 321 varieties of Daylilies. 
Flowers of striking color; the large spot of 
mahogany-red in each petal contrasts 
sharply with the rich orange of the rest of 
the flower. Many spreading branches. See 
picture. $1.00 each; 5 @ 80 cts. 














MONARCH. 3 ft. July. Much and firmly 
branched, with many blooms on each 
branch. Full, crisp, large, star-like, light 
cadmium-yellow blooms with a delicate 
halo of fulvous orange in mid-zone. Good 
evenings. See picture. $2.00 each. 
MULTIFLORA., 2 ft. Aug. to Oct. A su- 
perb finale to the Daylily season, usually 
continuing beyond first frosts at Weiser 
Park. The scapes are upstanding and 
much branched. Flowers clear orange and 
smallest of the Daylily species. Grassy 
foliage. $2.50 each. 
MULTIFLORA SUMMER HYBRIDS. 2). 
ft. Late June to late Aug. Extremely long 
bloom season. Numerous small (2 to 3”), 
clear orange flowers on heavily branched 
scapes. Fragrant. See picture. $1.00 each; 
5 @ 80 cts. 
PATRICIA. 216 ft. July, Aug. Second 
choice in ballot of 321 varieties. Rated 
93.7, or .08 below Mikado. Pale yellow 
with tinge of lemon-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 and evenings. 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 to rodents.’-—IsaBEL BOYLE, 
Shoreham, L.I.,. N.Y. 
