Shrsusheiy Godtens 
introduces only one origination this year, RED SPIDER. Though it 
had been my intention to offer you CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, OXHEART 
and SALT ASH this season they are being held another year for fur- 
ther study. Here at an altitude of 1700 feet in rich ground, fed by water 
off the higher hillsides, they performed beautifully through last sum- 
mer’s dryness. However, before introducing an origination I must have 
favorable reports from various sections of the country where named 
seedlings will prove their value before being released to you. It was 
a difficult summer last vear for evaluating new selections. Word came 
back from one area that along with proven named varieties these plants 
did not appear in top form. All reports stated them excellent ‘‘consid- 
ering.” I am happier to await report on them in what we hope will be 
a summer of good growing weather. Meantime this means that stock 
may be multiphed and so released to you at a lower figure next season 
than they could have been this year. 
I have tried in my description of RED SPIDER to make it very 
clear that this is an extremely narrow-petaled flower. In fact that is 
one of its distinctions, for the effect as an adult well-flowered plant is 
open and light. The color is, I think, superlative, and there were no re- 
ports on it which were not enthusiastic. It is an early mid-season bloom- 
er, and as near Vermont as New York City it has been reported as re- 
peating full flowering in the fall. This may have been a freak of the 
long warm stretch of weather last year so I shall not lst it as re- 
montant, though I trust this may be a set characteristic where the sum- 
mer is longer. | 
It was a pleasure to receive your many letters praising TIGER 
EYE and TOWN HILL. There have been no complaints as yet from 
any of the many sections of the country it was sent out to; proving, I 
hope, the soundness of my practice of getting reports back on perform- 
ance in the different weather zones of the country before general 
release. 
The pleasant necessity of dividing and moving all my stock into 
my own fields on my own land last summer is reflected in the prices this 
year and I shall hope to be able to hold to these same bargain figures 
for selected daylilies in the future. I am particularly pleased with the 
Collections I am able to offer this year and feel sure that you will be, 
too. | 
RICHARD JOHNSON 
