Now Everybody Can Afford 
These Lovely New Jewels 
Concerning Our Prices 
and Varieties 
While we are growing fourteen solid acres of 
Daylilies, it must be understood that not all of 
them are good varieties; in fact, a great part of 
our entire fields we consider strictly trash—just 
as you will find in any breeder’s field. We plowed 
under many thousand hybrids this season as not 
worthy garden subjects. We grow thousands of 
our own under number, as well as hundreds of 
varieties from other breeders for comparison 
and only when a plant has proved its worth and 
produces more than 300 blooms in its. third 
season’s growth do we ever introduce it. 
Daylilies are not bulbs but are hardy her- 
baceous roots and really can be considered the 
least expensive flower on earth, for they will 
give you more in return for less care than 
any flower you could possibly grow, and at the 
same time increase in beauty from year to year. 
I would not think of dividing and separating 
my plants until they have been growing five or 
six years or even more, because you'll get 
far more bloom from one established clump 
than you will from many small plants. When 
you consider the thousands of plants we destroy 
in order to select one good variety that will live 
on and on, the price we ask is, after all, very small. 
Weare happy to be the first large grower in Amer- 
ica to give you these modest prices, but then 
we are here where we get ten months’ growing 
season and enough severe freezes to burst unpro- 
tected water pipes and kill out all tender vege- 
tation and at the same time harden up the Day- 
lilies. We can naturally produce them faster, 
we believe, than anywhere on earth. 
When you have finished this catalog, won't 
you pass it along to a friend, or better still—have 
him or her order one. 
Evergreen and Dormant 
Varieties 
Much comment is being made today as to 
which are evergreen and which are dormant 
Daylilies. In our climate we can readily grow 
both, and I am marking each variety for you. 
We have moving pictures showing our Daylilies 
in the dead of winter, with about half the field 
evergreen and half completely dormant, showing 
ice in the rows where water stood. These movies 
are available to your garden clubs, showing 
millions of blooms. I do not believe it matters 
too much whether a Daylily is evergreen or 
dormant, except, of course, that in the warmer 
sections where you can grow both, it’s well to 
have evergreen, because you can have just as 
lovely blooms and the foliage, too. Many va- 
rieties that are evergreen by nature are dormant 
in the extreme North and are thought by many 
to be of that natural habit. 
Now, my main reason for making this issue 
is that of the four or five hundred varieties of 
other northern and eastern growers’ Daylilies 
that I grow here for observation more than 90 
percent are evergreen here in the South. In 
fact, of all the varieties of Stout’s that I have, 
more than 90 percent are absolutely evergreen 
here, and they were originated in New York City. 
Those that were originated farther up in New 
{ngland are likewise practically all evergreen 
here. As for their blooming and growing quali- 
ties, | would class them along with the others, 
except, of course, that we believe the quality 
of our own varieties surpasses them all. It was 
one of our Daylilies which took highest honors 
for a variety other than yellow in the first poll 
of the Midwest Hemerocallis Society, grown in 
Iowa, and classed as dormant, though in reality 
it is evergreen in most sections. I sincerely 
believe 9916 percent of all Daylilies are hardy 
in the entire four corners of America. 
We are the only nursery in the world that could furnish as many as 
5,000 to 10,000 each of 75 or 100 tov varieties. 
VARIETIES SOLD SHORT 
We have received many letters from competent growers asking us why we 
fail to list certain varieties and our answer is simple: since we’ve been in business, 
we've hardly ever offered a variety that wasn’t completely sold out that season, 
and we had to take it off the market until we worked up enough stock to offer it 
again. Some of these varieties you will find listed here for the first time in several 
seasons, and many of these we're sure won't last the season through. 
OUR SHIPPING SEASON: 
FEB. 15 to OCT. 15 
See Page 9 for 1951 Introductions. 
RUSSELL GARDENS, SPRING, TEXAS 
See Page 21 for Dwarfs 
