DWARFS 
Last season we offered for the first time a collection of midgets. The four varieties didn’t last one- 
tenth of the season. They were sold out almost immediately, and it will probably be several years 
before they are back on the market. 
season to place in this group others that are of dwarf habit. 
The demand was so great for them that I have decided this 
While they are not as dwarf as the ones 
that were offered last year, they are nevertheless low growers, and for placing in the foreground of 
your borders, they will certainly prove indispensable. 
ANNETTE. Dormant. 
Mahogany-red, almost a black-red. This 
lovely 6-inch flower has a deep, wide chrome 
throat. Its height is only 20 inches, which is 
quite unusual for a Daylily in this color class. 
April, May and June. $1.00. 
CALCUTTA. Dormant. 
Lovely overlapping petals of truly wine-red 
with a deep velvety sheen and a small golden 
throat. A very profuse bloomer. Truly a honey. 
41s-inch bloom. Ht. 2 ft. May, June, $1.00. 
GUEST STAR. Evergreen. 
Big 7-inch flower with widest petals tapering 
to a twisted point. Opens full and is a solid self 
of an indescribable shade of purest canary-gold. 
The most beautiful yellow sepals are slightly 
recurved. Ht. 2 ft. May. $1.00. 
MY BUDDIE. (1950) Dormant. 
The small 3-inch blooms are of a rich velvety 
mahogany-red, with ruffled petals and a sulphur- 
yellow throat. The petals and sepals are slightly 
recurved. Ht. 2 ft. $1.00. 
OUR PET. Dormant. 
Yes, this is everybody else’s pet too, for its 
height is only about 24 inches and the flowers 
look like little butterflies. Tiny 31-inch bloom 
of rich deep yellow overcast orange-red, with a 
fiery red eye zone. One of the most profuse 
bloomers. April to June. $1.00. 
PRAIRIE GOLD. Evergreen. 
This beautiful canary-yellow with its wide, 
14-inch blooms is another semi-dwarf growing less 
than 2 feet. It can really be considered a fall 
bloomer, for it blooms for us in August and is 
ablaze with bloom when almost all other mid- 
season varieties are gone. Keeps well far into 
the night. $1.00. 
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RUSSELL’S MINUET. Dormant. 
A dwarf Daylily with 41-inch blooms, ideal 
for rock gardens or the foreground of the border. 
The wide, overlapping petals are rich rose, 
ruffled, with a wide yellow stripe down the center 
of each. The sepals are pale canary. A fast 
multiplier. Stems stand stiff and erect and are 
simply enveloped in bloom. Ht. 20 to 24 in. 
May, June. $1.00. 
SPITFIRE. Evergreen. 
Seems never to stop blooming here. I have 
actually seen this variety have four complete 
bloom seasons. The petals are of a fiery red, the 
sepals being slightly lighter and the throat yel- 
low. 31-inch bloom. Ht. 2 ft. A very profuse 
bloomer. April, May, and June. $1.00. 
SPRING PARADE. Dormant. 
The 41-inch bloom has intensely ruffled petals 
of true raspberry color with a deeper eye zone 
and deep veins running through each wide twisted 
petal; huge apple-green throat and rosy brown 
sepals. Ht. 2 ft. April, May. $1.00. 
TAJ MAHAL. Evergreen. 
Rich chrome color with a velvety sheen and a 
wide eye zone of the richest purple-red. The 
fact that it grows only 2 feet high and is a blaze 
of bloom makes it one of the jewels in our fields. 
A bowlful combined with a lemon-colored variety 
is especially pleasing. Multiplies fast. 5-inch 
bloom. Very early. $1.00. 

We could literally offer thousands of letters of 
testimony, with many more from such far-away 
places as South Africa and Hawati, but space does 
not allow it. We are grateful for them all, and while 
they were accompanied by a few complaining letters 
too, most of the complaints were about minor faults 
of our own that were readily adjusted. 

RUSSELL GARDENS, SPRING, TEXAS 
