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We believe we have selected for introduction this year the most complete color range and surely 
the best-performing garden subjects that have ever been introduced by us or anyone else. After 
visiting most breeders all over the country and comparing theirs with ours, [am now willing to say, 
and stand behind it, that if you don’t love these new varieties I'll have to admit “I’m no Daylily 
breeder.” 
These are selected from thousands that | have been growing under number for years. The only 
way we ever grew enough stock before releasing them was simply to cut off the blooms in the fields 
so the thousands of local visitors could not see them. On visiting some other growers, [ was amazed 
to learn that they were introducing their varieties when they had only two or three clumps. I wouldn’t 
think of introducing any until I had what I thought would be enough stock to go around, and until 
I had had a few years to check thoroughly on their garden behavior, hardiness, etc. The blooming 
season given here is for Texas; a little later season can be expected in the North. 
BORDERTOWN. Evergreen. 
Wide, rounded, four-inch flower of brilliant 
rich raspberry-purple, with ivory veins running 
through the petals. The sepals are ivory overcast 
rose; huge apple-green throat. Ht. 24% ft. June, 
July and again in September. $10.00 each. 
COLLECTOR’S ITEM. Evergreen. 
An extremely wide flower of rich tomato-red. 
Petals slightly ruffled. I would call this a really 
glorified Mrs. Hugh Johnson, much larger, with 
a tiny green throat. May, June. $8.00 each. 
CORAL BEDS. Dormant. 
Wide, coral-pink, 5-inch flower, far superior 
to Pink Charm. Recurved petals with ivory mid- 
rib. Ht. 24% ft. May, June. $8.00 each. 
D. R. McKEITHAN. Semi-Evergreen. 
Another hybrid of Painted Lady, 7 inches 
across, with the widest petals that remind one 
more of a Dutch amaryllis than a Daylily. 
Richest gold, flecked cinnamon overlay. Its 
petals are ruffled and recurved on the tips, with 
the widest green throat. Ht. 244 ft. May, again 
in August and September. $15.00 each. 
FAST COMPANY. Dormant. 
This fine 4-inch flower is the color of a ripe 
cherry, one of the finest reds. Its throat is buff 
shading to green, with ruffled petals, and it seems 
never to quit blooming. Ht. 31% ft. April, May 
and again in August and September. $8.00 each. 
JOE HOUSE. Semi-Evergreen 
This beautiful 6-inch, wide-petaled, lavender- 
pink flower, with deeper veins running through 
its ruffled petals, is the type flower one would 
expect to be named for an old friend, the dis- 
tinguished past President of the Hemerocallis 
Society. Its sepals are slightly lighter and re- 
curved. The throat is a cool deep apple-green. 
An extremely fast multiplier, hence the price. 
Ht. 3% ft. May, June. $15.00 each. 
LIME GROVE. Evergreen. 
A 7-inch, pale lemon-chartreuse, wide-petaled 
flower with as many as fifteen buds on a single 
stem. Ht. 3 ft. April, May. $10.00 each. 
MISS NAN. Semi-Evergreen. 
Here is the giant 7-inch, wide-petaled flower of 
the palest lemon that people raved over at the 
convention in Little Rock. An unusually profuse 
bloomer. Ht. 3 ft. May, June and again in 
September. $15.00 each. 
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MARY RUSSELL. Semi-Evergreen. 
Wide, ruffled, 7-inch flower with recurved 
sepals. Lemon-yellow with a tiny green throat; 
truly a doubly glorified Mrs. B. F. Bonner. A 
fast multiplier and an unusually profuse bloomer. 
May, June, and again in August and September. 
$12.00 each. 
MISTER. Evergreen. 
The flower is actually 8 inches wide, twisted 
and recurved. Pale tan background overcast 
rosy brown, with a deep green throat. A hybrid of 
the Painted Lady class and one that you will 
remember always. Ht. 2144 ft. May, June. 
$15.00 each. 
MRS. H. M. RUSSELL. Semi-Evergreen. 
This is the first gladiolus-flowered Daylily. To 
us here at the nursery, and the many thousands 
of visitors who have seen it, we think it is just 
about the loveliest, nearest perfect Daylily that 
ever came into being. Its buff-yellow flower is 
4 inches across and comes in profusion on a 3-foot, 
stiff, erect stem. It is about the cleanest-looking, 
formal-shaped bloom I have ever seen; and if 
this wasn’t enough, it actually has three distinct 
blooming periods in one year. I have waited 
twenty years to find the Daylily I wanted to 
name Mrs. H. M. Russell. See illustration on 
front cover. $25.00 each. 
PIONEER’S DREAM. Semi-Evergreen. 
A true ivory-yellow, 7-inch flower, slightly 
overcast with a glistening gold dust and with an 
apple-green throat—imagine that! Ht. 3 ft. 
May, June and again in September. $10.00 each. 
SOCIETY FOLKS. Dormant. 
Ever see a rosy purple Daylily? Here is one 
with lighter rose sepals. Its wide flower has a 
tiny golden cup. Ht. 2 ft. May, June and again 
in September. $8.00 each. 
TEXAS SUNRISE. Evergreen. 
A huge, 8-inch, gold flower overlaid with the 
lightest tan and with a deeper rosy tan eye zone. 
The flower is ruffled, with a green throat. Truly 
a Goliath. Ht. 3 ft. May, June and again in 
September. $12.00 each. 
RUSSELL GARDENS, SPRING, TEXAS 
