introduces three outstanding Hemeroeallis this year, MALAGA, OX- 
HEART and SALT ASH, each of them highly individual, certain of 
uniqueness in form and color, never to be confused with any other 
named variety. Rock-hardy throughout the country they are ready to 
add their distinctive beauty to your homes and gardens. 
In this year of tense anxiety and added responsibility for each of 
us one’s garden is a boon, for within its beauty is found the very best 
release and relaxation from the problems and alarms of the day. Gar- 
dening is not an “escape” in the dreary sense of self-indulgence to no 
purpose; out of the earth one gains the valuable return of truly fresh 
vegetables for the family and neighborhood exchange, stocking the 
balance in freezer and jar for good eating throughout the span of 
winter. In the flower garden, too, one creates a design of beauty to 
be enjoyed and shared, an example to the world, of what. order and 
well-being might come to mean for the whole of it. 
Speaking personally of my own home [ find rich rewards in inter- 
planting the perennial crops of the eating garden with those hardy 
flowering perennials which give beauty so freely with little or no at- 
tention. To match or complement the colors of various berries and the 
red of rhubarb with flowers is a challenge and a pleasure. For this 
purpose there is no better plant than the daylily. 
As in the past all plants are dug to order. My own personal ex- 
perience with perennials held in storage has made it definite policy to 
mail stock on the day of digging. I do wish to make it clear that this 
does not mean that visitors to Shrewsbury Gardens may have stock 
dug to carry with them, an individual operation which takes more 
time than may be allotted. Orders are combined in a Tuesday and Sat- 
urday digging and mailed out the same day. Time is always happily 
made for your visit to Shrewsbury Gardens to study the many named 
varieties and seedlings in the field, taking leisure afterwards in the 
house or on the terrace facing the loveliness of the wide view of Ver- 
mont itself. Many of you have come, and from surprising distances. 
I hope to see all of these return and trust that mary more will pay an 
initial visit this year. 2 
Again I wish to suggest to all daylily enthusiasts that they join 
THE HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY. The handsome and informative 
Yearbook and the quarterly Newsletter which go to each member will 
keep you up to date on the amazing progress and development of this 
great perennial. Cheeks or money orders made out for $3.00 to THE 
HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY enclosed with your order will be for- 
warded and also bring you a token daylily from me. If you are not 
buying plants this year, send your dues directly to George E. Lening- 
ton, Secretary, Box 139, Kansas City 10, Missouri. 
May it be a rewarding year for each of you in your garden, I shall 
look forward to hearing from many of you and I extend to all of you 
an invitation to eall., Pie ee ne ta 3 Bei . 
. RICHARD JOHNSON 
