
Lh mee ARVISTA GARDENS 

HEMEROCALLIS 
We have added a considerable number of fine 
new varieties, including Dr. Stout’s nine new in- 
troductions. The 1949 season should show the 
finest display of Daylilies that we have ever had. 
The new Daylilies give us solid colors from soft 
yellow to deep red; two-toned flowers, pastels and 
blended tones. Their habits and character, wide 
color range and varied forms make them perhaps 
the most useful of all perennials. The graceful 
foliage blends well with other foliage, and the 
plants, with little or no care or attention, produce 
their handsome flowers each year. They will trans- 
form many an unsightly view, often in places where 
it is said “nothing will grow.’”’ And the flowers 
are a wonderfully rich addition to materials for 
the finest of flower arrangements. 
“The perennial supreme” that is always a suc- 
cess—no insect pests, no diseases; grows in sun or 
shade, any soil. The different varieties furnish 
bloom from May to October, and even later. Some 
bloom twice, or even three times in a season. They 
frequently bloom the same year they are planted, 
but their beauty increases each season until firmly 
established. 
The Daylily root is “packed with power and en- 
durance; thrives through generations of hot spells, | 
eold spells, and dry spells; surmounts neglect; lib- 
erally rewards attention.” 
Among the Hemerocallis varieties that we have © 
recently added and that we hope will bloom during 
the present season, we would include Armada, | 
August Orange, Blanche Hooker, Comet, Debutante, 
Fantasia, Georgia, Giant Orange, Hannah Dustin, 
Kinyo, Miss Houston, Princess, Queen of Gonzales, | 
Viking, and others, besides hundreds of seedlings, | 
many blooming for the first time, some showing © 
new tones in “pinks” and “‘reds’’, as well as others. | 
We very seldom lose even a single plant of | 
Hemerocallis, evergreen or deciduous, from winter 
killing, whether mulched or not. 
GLOWING GARNET — (Ashley, 1949. 
Our first Daylily introduction. Bloom- 
ing as a seedling N-2 in our garden for 
the past seven or eight years, it has 
excited the enthusiasm of growers and 
other visitors who have strongly urged 
its introduction. In two tones of garnet 
red, between carmine and victoria lake 
of Ridgeway, the 5” to 6” flowers 
have a greater brilliancy than any other 
red Hemerocallis that we ever have 
seen. The gracefully recurved petals 
have a suggestion of a darker eye- 
zone and a few veins of the same 
darker hue, a yellow midline and lightly 
waved edges shown also by the sepals. 
The throat is light orange yellow to 
greenish. July-August; to 52” 

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