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DEFINITIONS OF ABBREVIATIONS USED 
H. M. is Honorable Mention by The Hemerocallis 
Society, and the year after it means the year the 
award was given. 
A. M. is Award of Merit by The Hemerocallis Society. 
J. C. is Junior Citation Award by The Hemerocallis 
Society. 
A. M., R. H. S. is Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural 
Society (of England). 
THREE TRH FER 
ARLINE (House) M 36” 2.00 
A fine, well-branched orange of beautiful form. 
Very dependable and prolific blooming. 
ATEN (Kraus) LM 34” 4.00 
Large, glistening, widely-flowering nasturtium 
orange. A massive flower with extremely heavy sub- 
stance. Strong, well-branched growth habit. 
ATHLONE (Russell) LM 36” Ev. A.M., 1952 1.50 
A large bicolor of satiny buff and rosy - chestnut. 
Interesting form with broad petals that twist and 
curl. 
ATLAS (Kraus) M 34” 15.00 
A gigantic and beautiful flower of light yellow, 
heavily creped and ruffled. 
AUGUST PIONEER (Stout) L 36” 75 
Minature flowers lavishly set on slender, strong, 
well-branched scapes. Chrome orange lightly tinted 
red. 
AU REVOIR (McDade) L 24” 1.00 
Exquisite little flowers of buff dusted Burmese gold. 
Most desirable for its lateness and profuse blooming. 
AUTUMN RED (Nesmith) M 32” 75 
Open velvety red flowers with large wide throat of 
yellow. Very showy and desirable. 
BACCHUS (Wheeler) E 32” 2.00 
Medium-sized, very round, full flower of pinkish 
raspberry violet, with greenish canary throat. 
BAGGETTE (Russell) M 30” A.M., 1953 1.50 
An exquisite wide-petaled bicolor with ruffled 
petals of palest lemon deeply shaded old rose, and 
sepals of pale lemon. A profuse bloomer and vigorous 
grower. 
BALLET DANCER (Nesmith) M 36” Ev. 2.00 
Dainty and charming flowers of buff pink and gren- 
adine. Smoothly finished and lustrous. 
BEN HUR (Richards) M 42” 3.00 
Wide-petaled, deep velvety garnet of heavy sub- 
stance. Fadeless and completely weather resistant. 
BERTRAND FARR (Stout) M 30” Ev., A.M., 1951 1.00 
A fine large, broad-petaled rosy-peach. Flowers 
are full and of heavy substance. 
BESS ROSS (Claar) 25.00 
Many visitors to Mr. Claar’s garden may remember 
this as Seedling No. 50-02. A large, wide-open, 
brilliant red, this is the most vivid red I've ever seen in 
a daylily. The wide petals and sepals are beautifully 
formed and recurved - slightly frilled. The vivid red 
coloring is very even over the entire flower extending 
into the throat of brilliant yellow, with a chartreuse 
green cup at the base of the bloom. Bold and striking 
really a knockout! 
BESS VESTAL (House) EM 36” H. M. 1952 3.00 
Large, broad-petaled flowers of bright red. 
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