Daylilies. The Wild Species and Garden Clones, Both Old and New, of the Genus Hemerocallis. Introduction and Updating by Darrel Apps. Foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas. 2nd ed. 1986. 36 black & white plates. 11 colour plates. 1 portr. XXXII,145 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Hemerocallis means the "beauty of a day"-the plant or flower of light.It is extraordinary that daylilies which have been known to Westerncivilization for so many centuries, and which are such reliable gardenplants, remained in obscurity for so long; only the few principal species were grown and no hybrids were recorded until 1892. Hybridistshave today been able to give us all colours in the spectrum save blue and its immediate tints. Ever green and white are within grasp. Beforeand after flowering the clumps of arching leaves are good to look uponif their spent flowering stems be removed. To add to all these assetsmany daylilies have fragrance and all are tough, hardy garden plantsthriving almost anywhere if their few needs are provided.