The daylilies themselves have been selected with 
great care. Many top-nmamed ones have been weeded 
out as doubtful performers while other varieties have 
proved their fine stamina and been so increased that 
they may be offered reasonably. My first two intro- 
ductions at SHREWSBURY GARDENS, TIGER EYE 
and TOWN HILL, are of sturdy strain and fully wor- 
thy of being the initial offerings in what will be, I 
hope, an important series of daylilies to which a care- 
fully culled small number of worthy originations will 
be added year by year. 
TIGER EYE has famous forebears such as BUCK- 
EYE, the tender JUBILEE and strong MIKADO as 
well as the sturdy seedlings of Vermont in its an- 
cestry. It arrives as a hardy deciduous plant with firm 
slim foliage to set off the well-spaced blooms of deep 
chrome with a brilliant chimney-red eye-zone. Here 
is a plant which stays compact, is hardy as an oak on 
the side-heights of the Green Mountains and which, 
upon establishment, goes to work to make its corner 
or piece of the border a challenging accent in mid- 
summer. It deserves to stand alone. 
TOWN HILL is a softer and more pliant flower, 
of delicate nasturtium red shading down through 
aureolin yellow to a rich chartreuse throat. Here is 
a flower to be loved, carefully placed so its soft rich- 
ness is not washed down by more strident neighbors. 
As a focal center for the good yellow and gold varie- 
ties it is superb. 
So, herewith, my list for 1949, headed by my own 
first two introductions which are followed by a group 
of named varieties of daylilies, each and every one 
of which is worthy of a place in any sort of garden 
from the simplest dooryard to the most extensive es- 
tate. I shall hope that you will be interested in mak- 
ing some of these hardy Vermont plants your own 
this year and that as they establish themselves for 
you they will make you look forward to other fine 
things to come in other years such as the dark and 
handsome CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT and the soft flush- 
ed loveliness of SALT ASH. But there, I’m getting 
ahead of myself! 
RICHARD JOHNSON 
Jutioductions for TDAD ee, 
TIGER EYE (Johnson 1949), As the name suggests 
this is a brilliantly eyed daylily; a deep chrome re- 
curved flower with a handsome chimney-red eye- 
zone. It is well-branched and floriferous. Tiger Eye 
is exceptional in that, in full-day sun, it has an al- 
most chameleon quality of lightening to a chamois 
buff while the texture of the petals remains as crisp 
as when first opening in the morning. 36 in. July- 
August. . $5.00 
