Pages - AHS Region 2

American Hemerocallis Society 

Spring/Summer 2000 

Region 2/Great Lakes 

Newsletter

AHS Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter 

National President 

Kay Day 

7003 Woodridge Drive 

Flower Mound, TX 75028-5873 

Kay.Day@wwflightservices.com 

American Hemerocallis Society National Officer 

icers 

Executiv 

ecutive e Secretar 

ary 

Pat Mercer 

P.O. Box 10 

Dexter, GA 31019 

gmercer@nlamerica.com 

Editor or of The Daylily ylily Journal 

James R. Brennan 

37 Maple Avenue 

Bridgewater, MA 02324 

508-697-4802 

jrbjgb@rcn.com 

AHS Region 2 Director 

Martha Seaman 

8875 Fawn Meadow Lane 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 

(513) 791-5183 

elfcat@earthlink.net 

Regional Treasurer 

Gene Dewey 

2125 Fox Avenue 

Madison, Wisconsin 53711-1920 

(608) 255-0858 

gldewey@facstaff.wisc.edu 

Regional Honors s & Awards Chair 

Philipp Brockington 

573 E. 600 North 

Valparaiso, Indiana 46363 

(219) 462-4288 

Philipp.Brockington@valpo.edu 

The American 

Hemerocallis 

Society 

Membership Rates 

Individual (1 year) ................ $18.00 

Individual (3 years) .............. $50.00 

Family (1 year) ..................... $22.00 

Family (3 years) ................... $60.00 

Sustaining ........................... $65.00 

Life .................................... $300.00 

Youth ..................................... $8.00 

Dues are to be paid by 

January 1 of each year. 

Make checks payable to the AHS. 

Mail to: Pat Mercer 

P.O. Box 10 

Dexter, GA 31019 

gmercer@nlamerica.com 

Page 2 Spring/Summer 2000 

1999-2000 Region 2 Officer 

icers and Liaisons 

Regional Vice President 

Mary M. Milanowski 

452 Collindale N.W. 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504 

(616) 453-3769 

LilyGal@aol.com 

Regional Editor 

Gisela Meckstroth 

6488 Red Coach Lane 

Reynoldburg, Ohio 43068-1661 

(614) 864-0132 (Fax: same number) 

gisela-meckstroth@worldnet.att.net 

AHS Honors & Awar 

ards 

ds Region 

2 Liaisons 

Drs. Jerry and Caroline Benser 

2407 Vine Street 

LaCrosse, Wisconsin 54601-3864 

(608) 782-4417 

sonotenore@aol.com 

Regional Youth Liaison Co-chairs 

Cynthia Blanchard 

3256 S. Honeytown Road 

Apple Creek, Ohio 44606-9047 

(330) 698-3091 

and 

Carol Hauenstein 

15409 Barrs Road SW 

Dalton, Ohio 44618 

(330) 833-7004 

Regional Ways & Means 

Lea Ann and Don Williams 

12246 Spurgeon Road 

Lynnville, Indiana 47619-8065 

(812) 922-5288 

drw@dynasty.net 

Regional Archiv 

hives 

Joanne Larson 

49 Woodland Drive 

Barrington, Illinois 60010-1912 

(847) 381-1484 

Regional Publicity Director 

Ed Myers 

5157 Bixford Avenue 

Canal Winchester, Ohio 43110-8606 

(614) 836-5456 

EdVamyers@aol.com 

Regional Secretar 

ary 

Virginia Myers 

5157 Bixford Avenue 

Canal Winchester, OH 43110-8606 

(614) 836-5456 

EdVamyers@aol.com 

Regional Exhibition Judges Liaison 

Richard Ford 

Box 55 

Petersburg, Illinois 62675 

(217) 632-3791 

ford@fgi.net 

Regional Garden den Judges Liaison 

Phyllis Cantini 

3140 Elder Road North 

Orchard Lake, Michigan 48324-2416 

(248) 363-2352 

jamescantini@cs.com 

Editorial Policy 

The American Hemerocallis Society 

Region 2/Great Lakes Newsletter is 

published for the benefit of American 

Hemerocallis Society members residing 

in Region 2. As such, the editorial 

focus of the publication centers on: 

• Hemerocallis. 

• AHS and Region 2 events. 

• Region 2 members and hybridizers. 

Submissions are encouraged. The 

editor reserves the right to edit for 

space, grammar, and focus on the 

three criteria cited above.



Spring/Summer 2000 

Table of Contents 

Page 

Director’s Report ................................................................................. 2 

National Convention Calendar ........................................................... 2 

RVP’s Message .................................................................................... 3 

RPD’s Notes......................................................................................... 4 

Editor’s Message ................................................................................. 4 

Financial Statement ........................................................................... 5 

Youth Liaisons’ Message..................................................................... 6 

•Youth Activities for Region 2 Summer Meeting 2000 ............ 6 

Features 

•1999 Fall Midwest Hybridizers’ Meeting ................................. 7 

•Region 2 Hybridizer: Bob Bearce .........................................8-9 

•A Dream Comes True: Hybridizers Showcase Daylily Garden 

10 

•A Collection of Tributes to R. William Munson, Jr. 12-14 

•Region 2 Symposium Auction Recap ............................ 15 

•Iconoclast's Corner ................................................... 16-17 

Region 2 Symposium 2000 ...........................................................18-31 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 

•Agenda, Registration Information, Lodging, etc. .................... 32 

•Registration Form and Meet Keynote Speaker Bob Ellison .. 33 

•Region 2 Slide and Auction Plants Request ............................ 35 

•Preview of Tour Gardens ....................................................36-39 

This and That from AHS to Region 2 News ..................................... 40 

•Region 2 Calendar .................................................................... 40 

•Future Region 2 Meetings/Englerth Award Information ....... 40 

•Electing a Regional Vice President: It’s YOUR Responsibility! 

•Regional Vice President Election Ballot .......................... 41 

•Exhibition Judges Listing ........................................................ 45 

•Garden Judges Listing ............................................................. 46 

•Garden Judges (Workshops) Information ............................... 46 

•AHS Personal Awards, Regional, and Local Awards Information 43 

Club Information and Events Calendar ......................................47-50 

New Members ..............................................................................51-52 

Advertisements ............................................... 7, 11, 15, 17, 28, 30, 34 

Note: Since PDF numbers pages beginning with the front cover, the page 

numbers in this PDF version do not correspond to those in the printed 

version. Add 2 to respective page numbers; for example, advertisements 

would be found on pages 9, 13, 17, etc. 

Front Cover: 

The Garden of Elizabeth Raz of Palos Heights, Illinois. 

Photo by Rosemary Balazs 

Photos on inside pages: Unless otherwise indicated, all photos are by RPD Ed 

Myers and Editor Gisela Meckstroth. 

THE AMERICAN 

HEMEROCALLIS 

SOCIETY 

Region 2/Great Lakes 

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Daylily Newsle 

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Deadlines 

Spring/Summer Issue: 

March 1 

Fall/Winter Issue: 

September 1 

Out-of Region 

Subscriptions 

$10.00 per year 

Make checks payable to 

AHS Region 2 and send 

to: 

AHS Region 2 Treasurer 

(see address on inside 

front cover) 

Display Adv 

dver 

ertising 

Rates for Inside Pages 

Full Page .................. $70.00 

Half Page .................. $45.00 

Quarter Page ............ $30.00 

Make checks payable to AHS 

Region 2 and send it with your 

request to the editor. 

(please note the deadlines above) 

Spring/Summer 2000 Page 3


A Letter from our Director 

by Martha Seaman 

shape–not wealthy, but comfortable. 

However, because Life Memberships 

have been a “losing” proposition 

for AHS for years, the Board 

passed a motion to raise the Life 

Membership dues to $500 (from 

“But to me, the best 

thing about the AHS is 

the friends made within 

the organization. 

A true bargain!” 

Martha Seaman 

the required changes in the AHS 

Constitution will be voted on by the 

membership at the AHS Annual 

Business Meeting in July. 

Membership in the AHS is one of 

the best bargains in the plant world. 

AHS has a large and enthusiastic 

membership–now nearly 12,000; it 

produces a wonderful magazine and 

many special publications; it sponsors 

scientific research about our 

favorite plant, and it is the agent 

for registering new cultivars. 

But to me, the best thing about the 

AHS is the friends made within the 

organization. A true Bargain! 

Martha Seaman 

The question I'm asked most 

often is, “Will the AHS 

raise its annual dues” 

And the answer is “Not in the near 

future!” 

At its last meeting, the AHS Board 

voted NOT to raise the annual dues 

even though the AHS has the lowest 

dues of all the major plant societies. 

This means your national organization 

is in good financial 

$300) and to create a Dual Life 

Membership (two persons at the 

same address) for $750. The Life Associate 

membership, which has 

been confusing to many people, will 

be eliminated, but the Board has 

recommended a small fee ($50) for 

those who wish to convert their current 

Life Associate status to Dual 

Life Membership. All this was reported 

in the Spring 2000 issue of 

The Daylily Journal (Does anyone 

read the AHS Board minutes), and 

Have you seen the new 

An Illustrated Guide to 

DAYLILIES 

It is a 1999 publication of The 

American Hemerocallis Society, 

edited by Frances Gatlin, and with 

illustrations by Cheryl Postlewait 

and Elizabeth Schreiner. 

If you would like to order a copy, 

refer to the AHS Publication Order 

Form in the back of each issue of 

The Daylily Journal. 

Looking ahead at the 

National Convention Calendar 

2000 ........... Delaware Valley Daylily Society, Philadelphia, PA .................. July 12-15 ............... 2000 

2001 ........... New England Daylily Society, Boston, MA ............................ July 18-21 ............... 2001 

2002 ........... Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society, Troy, MI ................. July 16-20 ............... 2002 

2003 ........... Mid-Carolina Daylily Society, Charlotte, NC .......................... June 18-21 .............. 2003 

2004 ........... The Greater St. Louis Hemerocallis Society, St. Louis, MO ............. June 30-July 3 .......... 2004 

2005 ........... Pensacola Hemerocallis Society, Pensacola, FL ....................... May 18-21 .............. 2005 

Page 4 Spring/Summer 2000


RVP Message 

Region Two Growth – let's all 

welcome all three of these new 

clubs formed in 1999: 

! Bay Area Daylily Buds in 

northern Wisconsin, 

! Daylily Society of Southern 

Indiana located in the southeastern 

corner of southern 

Indiana, 

! Hoosier Daylily Society located 

in central Indiana 

! And, just in case you can’t find 

the Southwestern Illinois 

Hemerocallis Society of Granite 

City in the Region Two Club Listings 

on the inside back cover of 

this newsletter, it is because the 

club members changed its name 

to Madison County Daylily 

Society. 

After completing three years now as 

your RVP, if I were to compile an 

RVP Wish List for the benefit of future 

RVP’s and for the AHS, this is 

what it might look like: 

1) That a small committee of AHS 

members within each club work to 

sponsor a Garden Judge Workshop 

I & II and to promote old and 

new garden judges. You could call 

this committee the “AHS Continuing 

Education Committee of (your 

club name).” This committee could 

even sponsor an Exhibition Judges 

Clinic I. 

In Region Two we have 

dropped down below 50% 

of our allotted 15% of 

Garden Judge slots. 

by Mary Milanowski 

2) More participation in the AHS 

Popularity Poll. 

3) What a wonderful Region it 

would be if each and every one 

of the 25 Region Two local clubs 

would either send a letter asking 

when they could sponsor 

the next Region Two annual 

summer meeting or sponsor an 

annual meeting “partnering” 

with another local club that is 

fairly close by. In the last 15 

years, the annual summer 

meeting has been hosted by 10 

clubs. Obviously, some have 

done double duty. 

4) Your club send a letter to the 

club hosting the next annual 

summer meeting asking what 

you can do in the way of making 

the auction a success. 

5) Hybridizers, backyard and 

commercial, please participate 

by sending your seedlings to 

the next Englerth bed location. 

Have you ever noticed how 

popular the candidates in the 

Englerth bed are each year 

This is a fun event where everyone 

gets to participate and 

finds out the results the same 

day! Just ask Dan Bachman, 

winner of the 1999 Englerth 

Award. 

In short, you might say that I am 

asking each of you to support 

your Region. 

Many of you already lend support, 

and to you I say Thank 

You, as you are always there, 

conducting clinics, sending in 

your Popularity Poll ballots, returning 

surveys, hosting annual 

meetings, and donating plants for 

annual summer meeting plant 

sales and auctions. 

The next regional annual summer 

meeting hosted by the Chicagoland 

Daylily Society, July 21-23, 2000, 

needs your help with plants–both, 

sale table and auction. Let them 

know what you can donate to the 

event. 

Next year, it will be Cincinnati’s 

turn. This summer would be a 

“Blue Daylilies” 

RVP Mary Milanowski 

good time to set aside some plant 

divisions for them. 

Have you sent your seedling(s) for 

the Englerth bed And to those hybridizers 

who have introductions on 

the AHS Honors and Awards Ballot: 

Have you made plans to guest 

your introductions in a tour-garden 

bed In 2002, the Southern Michigan 

Hemerocallis Society will be 

hosting the National Convention in 

the Troy area Are you “guesting” 

your introductions for all to see 

Time is now to make those plans, 

or will you let the South rise again 

Mark your Calendars 

for Events in 2000: 

♦July 12-15 National Convention, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

♦July 21, 22, 23 Regional Meeting, 

Chicago, Illinois 



RPD Notes 

As this edition of the 

Region 2 Newsletter 

goes to the printers, there are 

signs of spring everywhere in 

the garden. 

Spring flowers are forming 

buds and a few of the daylilies 

are breaking through the 

mulch (much too soon for 

their own good). 

After attending the Region 2 

Symposium 2000 last week, 

Ed Myers listening to the speakers, and 

seeing some of the future 

introductions, I can hardy wait for another bloom 

season to begin. 

Everyone who did not get a chance to attend this 

Symposium 2000 certainly missed a great program of 

speakers that Curt Hanson assembled. 

Again it is my job to remind all Region 2 members to 

send in their Popularity Poll ballots before September 

1st of this year 2000. 

Last year 195 ballots were received, which was an 

increase from previous years. I am sure our members of 

Region 2 can do better this year, if we can just remind 

all members to send in their ballots. 

This year as an incentive for members to vote in the 

Popularity Poll, voting members' names will be placed 

in a drawing for one of 3 daylilies, COPPER ROYAL 

(Carr), STREET URCHIN (Kirchhoff) and LADY 

ARABELLA (Salter). 

These daylilies have been donated by Richard Norris of 

Ashwood Gardens, Glouster, Ohio. 

And to make it easier to vote this year, you may send me 

your vote by E-mail at edvamyers@aol.com before 

September 1, 2000. 

Region 2 Popularity Poll 

oll 

in the Year ear 2000 

You ou ou ou Be Be Bet Be 

Your our Vote 

will Count! 

Vote e in in in in in 

2000! 2000! 2000! 2000! 2000! 

Editor’s Message 

s a retiree, it is wonderful 

to be able to 

work–without considering 

pay per job or pay per 

hour. A certain age brings 

valued benefits (xy@ >>:” [+] 

pwy!...whupps... and goodness 

gracious...is that age 

65+). 

I hope you, along with me, 

have noticed that changes 

come more frequently and 

Gisela Meckstroth more quickly as time goes 

by. Not even the cost of 

printing this newsletter stands still! And, since you 

Region 2 members work so hard to raise the money 

for printing it, its costs should be held down, right 

The printer and editor are testing some cost-saving 

methods on inside-pages that we may use in this or the 

next issue. We also considered adding 4 inside pages of 

color (perhaps for advertisers) for an additional cost of 

$700 to $800 and another $1200 to $1500 for higher 

quality, coated paper (which would be necessary to print 

good color). Needless to say, because of its high cost, 

the topic of “color on inside pages” has moved itself to 

the very end of the priorities list . 

Again, my sincere thanks to all who have given feedback 

about this newsletter, and a big Thank You to 

all you willing members who have written articles 

about our hybridizers, about our interesting regional 

daylily topics, about the presentations at our–oh, so 

wonderful–regional symposium in Cleveland, and 

about your local club events. Region 2 has 25 local 

clubs now, almost twice as many as it had about 6 

years ago. 

I do hope that all of you, who were not able to be at 

the symposium, can read the articles in this issue 

(even though–to get them all on 52 pages–a few are 

in such small print) and feel that you were there with 

us in spirit and that reading about the symposium 

activities and the interaction between guest speakers 

and daylily devotees will 

make you want to reserve 

that time slot next year! 

Gisela 

Don’t miss the Summer Meeting 

or the next Symposium. 

Photo above was taken by: 

MCDS Member Bill Johannes 

Thank You 

For sharing information 

within our region. 



Stat 

tatement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements 

sements 

American Hemerocallis Society – Region 2 

For the Period January 1, 1999 through December 31, 1999 

BALANCE FROM PRIOR REPORT 12-31-98 

Checking Account $ 495.38 

Business Money Market Account 7,623.61 

Certificates of Deposit 10,500.69 

RECEIPTS: 

Mail Auction 2,169.79 

99 Regional Meeting Auction 3,912.31 

99 Regional Meeting Plant Sale 1,256.50 

Publication Sales 100.00 

Contributions 1,550.00 

Newsletter: 

Subscriptions 92.00 

Advertising 400.00 

Label Reimbursement 932.25 

Interest 819.93 

Symposium ’99: Registrations 9,345.00 

Symposium ’99: Silent Auction 2,777.50 

Symposium 2000: Registrations 1,610.00 

TOTAL RECEIPTS 24,965.28 

$18,619.68 

TOTAL OF BALANCE FORWARDED & RECEIPTS: 43,584.96 

DISBURSEMENTS: 

Mail Auction Bid Refunds 815.28 

Mail Auction Expenses 79.40 

Newsletter Printing 11,524.00 * 

Postage 1,613.18 * 

Miscellaneous 584.24 

Symposium ‘99 9,534.10 

Symposium 2000 571.31 

Office Supplies 179.57 

Printing & Postage 457.92 

Regional Director Expense 500.00 

Telephone 491.96 

AHS Liability Insurance 424.00 

RVP, RPD, and Editor Nat’l Convention 250.00 

Contributions 392.90 

Miscellaneous 102.45 

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS 27,520.31 

BALANCE ON HAND 12-31-99 $16,064.65 

Checking Account 3,108.61 

Business Money Market Account 1,671.26 

Certificates of Deposit 11,284.78 

*Note: These lines include $3,392 for printing and $400.76 for postage for the 

Fall 98/Winter 99 issue; these costs were incurred in the 1998 fiscal year, but 

were not invoiced until 1999. Henceforth, we expect to maintain payment for 

two newsletter issues each fiscal year. 

$16,064.65 

Gene L. Dewey, Treasurer – Region 2 



Another First for Region 2: 

Nick Lucius, First Youth to Receiv 

eceive e AHS Display Garden Status 

by Cynthia Blanchard 

aving one’s garden accepted as a Display 

Garden, is an honor for any gardener. Accomplishing 

this when you are 17 years old 

becomes a newsworthy feat. Nicholas Lucius, a member 

of the Metropolitan Columbus Daylily Society, has 

recently become the first youth member to apply for 

and to receive A.H.S. Display Garden Status. Bravo, 

Nick! 

A high school junior, Nick lives in Gahanna, Ohio, with 

his parents and three younger siblings. Those of you 

attending last summer’s Region 2 Meeting in Columbus 

will remember touring the beautiful, manicured 

Lucius Garden. Everyone in the family is involved in 

gardening but Nick and his father, Charles, do much 

of the manual labor. Charles has grown daylilies, along 

with other perennials, for a long time. About five years 

ago Nick became interested in hemerocallis, and their 

daylily collection began enlarging. At the present time, 

the family’s 3/4 acre property grows approximately 550 

different cultivars. According to Nick, their wish list is 

also rapidly expanding! 

Some of Nick’s favorite daylilies include the Stamile 

“Candy Series” and LAVENDER RAINBOW. Although 

he enjoys collecting daylilies, Nick also likes the challenge 

of hybridizing. He bloomed 75 seedlings in the 

garden this past summer and expects several hundred 

Special Youth Activities During 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 2000 

The Chicagoland Daylily Society, the host club, is offering a 

special registration rate of $65 to youth members. If you 

have never participated in a Region 2 Meeting, we encourage 

you to attend. The tour gardens are spectacular, the 

food is great, you’ll meet interesting people dedicated to 

the improvement of genus hemerocallis, and you’re sure to 

come home with new plants for your garden! The youth will 

be gathering together at least twice during the weekend 

meeting, with the first meeting scheduled for Friday at 5 

pm. We will be contacting youth registrants in June about 

the activities we have planned. 

Hope to see you in Burr Ridge, , Illinois! 

Nick Lucius receiving a commemorative plaque 

from MCDS President Pete Mondron. 

Photo: Gisela Meckstroth 

to bloom this coming summer. Hoping to see results 

more quickly, he now has seedlings growing under 

lights in the basement of his family’s home. His hybridizing 

program focuses on eyed daylilies and on 

purple daylilies with white edges. 

Those who know Nick comment on his willingness to 

help, his strong work ethic, and his enthusiasm for 

daylilies. What impressive acclaim for a gardener of 

any age. It is heartening to see these qualities in one 

of our Region 2 youth members. In the future, Nick 

hopes to earn a college degree in business management 

and, eventually, operate his own landscaping business. 

We wish him well in his dreams and aspirations, and 

we look forward to hearing more about him in the daylily 

future. 

Congratulations Nick, on your A.H.S. Display 

Garden Status. Well done! 

Did you know... 

that an AHS Youth 

membership costs only 

$8 per year 

See inside front cover for details. 


1999 Fall Midwest Hybridizers’ Meeting 

The 1999 Fall Midwest Hybridizers’ Meeting was held 

at the Wegerzyn Horticultural Center in Dayton, Ohio, 

on November 13, 1999. Both established and aspiring 

hybridizers were in attendance. Dan Bachman, whose 

BEN BACHMAN won the 1999 Englerth award, 

showed his many hued spider and unusual-form creations. 

Dan noted that his program really got established 

after picking a small number of cultivars with 

good plant habits for breeding purposes. Judging from 

the parentage of some of the slides of his older seedlings, 

these cultivars included SPIDER MIRACLE, COBURG 

FRIGHT WIG, and WILSON SPIDER. Dan indicated 

that his own seedlings are now involved in most of his 

crosses. Among the many slides he showed was one displaying 

a very prominent eye out of MARKED BY 

LYDIA. Dan added that MBL is both pod fertile and 

hardy. Dan has also been doing some tetraploid crosses, 

and he showed slides of offspring involving HIGH- 

LAND PINCHED FINGERS and TET SPINDAZZLE. 

Jamie Gossard concluded the morning session’s slide 

presentation with an eclectic selection of spider- and 

unusual-form seedlings. While Jamie uses much converted 

tetraploid material, he is not one to stick to existing 

spider stock for breeding purposes, as evidenced 

Bret S. Clement, Indiana 


by slides of spidery seedlings involving MOONLIT 

MASQUERADE, ROYAL BRAID, STARTLE, RASP- 

BERRY CANDY, and SPACECOAST STARDUST, 

among others. While Jamie concentrates on the spidery 

forms, he showed a few slides of more conventional forms 

Some of the Fall 1999 Midwest Hybridizers 

(Photo by Bret Clement) 

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Region 2 Hybridizer: Bob Bearce 

by Rosemary Balazs and Bill Sevetson 

Bob Bearce in his Garden 

Bob was born in Chicago, he spent his working career 

in export management, and he retired in 1985. 

He’s been interested in gardening most of his life, as 

both of his grandmothers were avid flower gardeners. 

Bob grew vegetables as well as flowers in his younger 

days. While in his teens, a high school course in botany 

sparked his interest in hybridizing as well as in growing 

daylilies from seed. However, his initial hybridizing 

efforts dealt with gladiolas. His interest was put 

aside for a few years when he moved from home and 

lived in an apartment on Chicago’s near north side. 

In the 50’s, Bob bought a house with a small 25-foot lot 

that had lots of crabgrass, which he removed clump by 

BURLING BELLE 

clump. The garden began slowly with borders around 

trees and planted with perennials and some annuals. 

Fortunately, while scanning a magazine, Bob saw an 

ad for daylilies featuring Wild and Russell cultivars 

(SHIRLEY WILD, Bechthold 52, and CRESTWOOD 

ANN, Fay-Griesbach 61, were very special). His interest 

led him to meeting Brother Charles Reckamp and to 

seeing all his work. That meeting led him to Orville 

Fay, a half mile away from Reckamp. Both were very 

generous in sharing their knowledge (and pollen). 

Brother Charles even potted up plants for Bob, but Fay 

washed the roots clean on those plants he gave to Bob. 

They were his mentors, and he learned from Fay: “If 

you are going to do any hybridizing, always start with 

the best things available.” 

While Bob was also very interested in painting in the 

late 50’s and early 60’s, hybridizing became his No. 1 

hobby, and he pretty much put aside his brushes until 

his retirement 14 years ago. 

Bob purchased his first seeds from Howard Hite; this 

was a “five seeds of this, and five seeds of that” kind of 

purchase. He started them indoors. 

In the early 70’s, Bob attended the Chicagoland (CDS) 

flower show at McCormick Place. He went to the 

Chicagoland Daylily Society booth and met Walter 

Jablonski who invited him to join CDS. He joined in 

1972. 

Bob registered his first daylily, GRAPE JELLY, in 

1976. Another seven years passed before he registered 

LUSTY LITTLE LULU in 1983. In the mid 80’s, Jack 

Romine of California introduced SMALL FAVORS from 

seeds that Bob had sent him. All of his registrations 

are tetraploids. He doesn’t have any diploids in his 

garden. 

Then, in 1990, Bob introduced SWEET BUTTER 

CREAM, TAHITIAN SUNRISE, DESERT MIRAGE, 

MARDI GRAS DRAGON, MINILITO, RASPBERRY 

TRUFFLES, TANGOR, and WEST SIDE STORY. 

SWEET BUTTER CREAM, a tall late yellow, and TA- 

HITIAN SUNRISE, a very late red, proved to be the 

most popular of the group. Bob discovered the keen 

interest that many daylily lovers have in late-blooming 

cultivars. However, their lateness tends to make it 

more difficult to work with them. There are very few 

shows for late bloomers to win awards. Bob is still interested 

in one of his 1980’s goals: Miniature tetraploids, 

that is, blossoms under 3 inches. However, he 

believes results are easier to achieve in the small 3- to 

4-inch category. 



Bob had lived on Burling Street in Chicago for a number 

of years before he moved to his present home in 

Park Ridge, Illinois, in the early 80’s. In 1994, he introduced 

the first of his “Burling” series of daylilies. 

At that time, he was sending seeds to Al Rogers at 

Caprice Farm Nursery in Sherwood, Oregon. Al germinated 

BURLING STREET, and it was jointly registered 

by Bob and Al. BURLING STREET has been 

highly regarded by many guests in the Sevetson garden, 

and it is currently sold by Caprice Farm Nursery. 

It blooms over a long mid to late season. It is 24 inches 

tall, has a 4-inch flower, and it is dormant. Its color is 

pale cream-pink with a dark pink halo, a yellow throat, 

a green heart, and it has nicely ruffled, gold petal edges. 

It tends to average four-way branching with 25 or more 

buds. It is a very attractive garden flower. 

Bob then introduced BURLING BARON and BURLING 

DAWN in 1998, followed by BURLING BELLE in 1999. 

BURLING BARON (30/6/MLa/DOR) is a creamy blend, 

and it has a dusty rose eye and edge with a green throat. 

BURLING DAWN (24/5/MLa/DOR) is warm peachpink, 

ruffled with golden filigree edges and a small 

green throat. BURLING BELLE (24/4-1/2/MLa/DOR) 

is a strong, shocking pink with a heavily ruffled gold 

edge. All Bearce registrations are known for bud count 

and branching. You will be able to see 9 of Bob’s registrations, 

including the “Burlings” mentioned above, at 

the Sevetson garden during the Region 2 Summer 

Meeting 2000 hosted by CDS. 

Bob has been active in AHS events as well as in those 

of CDS. He was the AHS Round Robin Chairman from 

1977 to 1981, and he was International Secretary from 

1981 to 1990. He also served as Corresponding Secretary 

of CDS for about 6 years. 

Bob’s registrations are now being handled by Dale 

Thomas of Thomas Gardens, 507 Race Horse Road, 

Hanover, PA 17331-8849. In Dale’s 1999 catalog, he 

discussed his late breeding program and pointed out 

that he used LUSTY LITTLE LULY very heavily in 

that program. His catalog lists all of the “Burlings” 

except BURLING STREET. 

SWEET BUTTER CREAM 

BURLING STREET 

Bob currently divides his time between his two primary 

loves, daylilies and painting. Keep watching for 

new “Burling” registrations. We are sure you will be 

pleased with them. He is one of the few hybridizers 

who breed for northern gardens. 

Editor’s note: 

Photos are by Bill Sevetson. Bill Sevetson writes that this article had originally been written by Rosemary Balazs for the 

Chicagoland DS Bulletin some time ago. Bill used Rosemary’s article (with her permission) as a starting point for this 

Region 2 Newsletter article. 

DID YOU KNOW ... 

The American Hemerocallis Society can be found on the World Wide Web. 

Surf the Net and learn more about daylilies! 

The URL is: http://www.daylilies.org/daylilies.html 



A Dream Comes True 

rue 

by Phyllis Cantini 

Garden Park in Holly, Michigan 

(1999 Photo by Joan Kepf) 

he Hybridizers Showcase Daylily Garden, an 

official AHS Display Garden, located within the 

Garden Park in Holly, Michigan, is the work of 

daylily visionary Joan Kepf and her two supporters, 

Linda Boyd and Mary Coakley, who caught the spirit 

of Joan’s dream. Joan’s dream was to have a garden 

that would contain the lifetime work of hybridizer Bill 

Munson Jr. and other hybridizers. The Garden Park, 

consisting of 77 acres, is a country setting in Holly, 

Michigan, and it can be accessed easily from I-75. The 

Park is the dream of the Hilty family who wanted to 

create a series of specialty gardens: Butterfly Garden, 

Japanese Garden, Rose Garden, etc. 

The Hybridizers Showcase Daylily Garden developed 

with the help of Loren Hilty and the use of his heavyduty 

equipment to sculpt the garden area by moving 

boulders, trees, and shrubs, and by bringing in top soil, 

mulches, and watering systems. The area was designed 

and planted by Joan, Linda, and Mary, who with determination 

and dedication worked through mud, rain, cold, backaches, and endless hours to accomplish the 

dream. Joan secured donations of perennials, trees and shrubs that dress up the gardens to achieve continuous 

bloom throughout the growing season. 

Joan searched the country for plants representative of each of the years covering each hybridizer’s lifetime 

work. Visitors will see daylilies showcased from hybridizers such as: 

" Anderson 

" Applegate 

" Apps 

" Benz 

" Carpenter 

" The Couturiers 

" Dickerson 

" The Doughertys 

" Elliott 

" Gates 

" Ra Hansen 

" Curt Hanson 

" Henry 

" Hite 

" The Joiners 

" Kamensky 

" Kirchhoff 

" Lambertson 

" Moldovan 

" Morss 

" Munson 

" Pickles 

" Reed 

" The Reinkes 

" Rice 

" TheSalters 

" Sharp 

" Sikes 

" Trimmer 

The uniqueness of this garden is that each hybridizer’s cultivars are planted together in individual sections. This 

gives the viewer an overall look of the hybridizers' progress and their particular “mark” or special goals they were 

trying to achieve in their breeding programs. Munson’s cultivars are laid out according to the year of registration 

beginning with 1956 and continuing to the present. Each hybridizer’s section has a marker with his or her name, 

but a specially engraved stone marks Munson’s section (Bill was working on the design of this stone at the time 

of his death.) A separate area is devoted to the winners of the Region 2 Howard Hite Award for Hybridizing 

Excellence (Note: No Hite Award was awarded in 1991). This Award Garden is laid out according to the year in 

which the award was won, and with a sampling of cultivars representative of each winner’s work from its inception: 

" Dr. Charles Branch, 1990 " Steve Moldovan, 1994 " Dennis Anderson, 1997 

" Bryant Millikan, 1992 " Howard Hite, 1995 " Curt Hanson, 1998 

" Brother Charles Reckamp, 1993 " Dr. Robert Griesbach, 1996 " Marge Soules, 1999 

Since this is still an evolving garden, there is plenty of room for future winners. Joan, Linda, Mary, and Loren 

have turned this virgin land into a showcase for all to see and enjoy. They stand proud of this unique and, 

perhaps, only garden of its kind in the U.S.A. that honors the beauty of each hybridizer's daylilies. They invite 

you to visit the Hybridizers Showcase Daylily Garden. For information about hours, maps, and directions, please 

contact Joan Kepf at 248-363-9627 or write to her at 6100 Carroll Lake Road, Commerce Township, MI 48382- 

3616. 

"Hand in hand come walk awhile 

Our finished dream will make you smile” 

by Joan Kepf 


Twin Beech Gardens 


5846 Beecher Road, S.W. • Granville OH 43023 • 740-927-9275 

Available in 2000 

• Supply Very Limited 

JACK SPRAT (Warrell 99) 29" EM Dor Ext Fragrant Dip 

An 8-1/2" Spider Variant (4.0:1 ratio) orchid purple self with light orchid 

watermark above a gold-green throat. Four branches, 20 buds. 

(STARSEARCH x SATIN BIRD). ....................................................... $75 

ORCHID MAJESTY (Warrell 99) 25" EM Dor Ext Dip 

A 9" Crispate orchid rose blend with slight eyezone blending to a yellow 

throat with a small green heart. Multi-branching, 15 buds (MONSTER x 

SATIN BIRD) ........................................................................................ $75 

CHIEF BLACK HAND (Warrell 99) 36" MLa Dor Ext Dip 

A 6-1/2" Spatulate which is a smooth satiny black-red self with a yellowgreen 

throat. Multiple branching with 23 buds (HOLLY DANCER x 

BLACK PLUSH). ................................................................................. $90 

MIGHTY THOR (Warrell 99) 34" M Dor Ext Tet 

A 9" red-orange self with yellow halo shading to small green throat. A 

very tailored widespread beacon. Four branches, 19 buds (MONSTER x 

ROYAL ORANGE) ................................................................................ $60 

Previous Introductions 

STARSEARCH 96 • A 7-1/2" very pale yellow star-shaped Dor Dip ........... $60 

LITTLE LIMELIGHT 96 • 3-1/4" yellow, intense green throat Dor Dip .... $35 

RINGS AND THINGS 95 • 6" curly pink Dor dip ......................................... $30 

GRASS ROOTS 95 • 8-1/2 lemon yellow widespread Dip dor ...................... $20 

PEACH FLOAT 94 • 7-1/2 spidery melon Dor Dip ....................................... $15 

HOLLY DANCER 88 • 7" spidery bright red with green throat Dor Dip .... $15 

Postage for orders: 

$ 6.00 

plus 

$25 cents per plant. 

Please visit http://www.primenet.com/~tjfehr/daylily.html 

From this link, click on Daylily Image Archive, and there you will find a folder of Dorothy Warrell's registered 

cultivars and of her seedlings. It is not a complete listing of all of Warrell's creations but it represents what was 

blooming last summer (All web-site photos courtesy Juli Hyatt. With permission from Tim Fehr.) 



A Collection of Tribut 

ributes to R. William Munson, Jr. 

After a message telling of the passing of one of greatest and most well-known daylily hybridizers came across the 

computer screens of our AHS E-mail Robin members on October 3, 1999, a great outpouring of feelings began. Within 

minutes and hours, over one thousand AHS members read about this irreversible event, and daylily devotees from all 

parts of North America and many parts of the world shared their thoughts and memories of this great man so freely 

over the next few days. Here, with each writer's permission and with only a slight bit of editing, are some of their 

spontaneous feelings put into words. 

AHS E-mail Robin Member Gisela Meckstroth 

From: Pam Erikson 

To: DAYLILY@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU 

Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 8:24 PM 

Subject: Mr. Munson 

Hi all: 

It was with great sadness that I read about Bill Munson tonight. 

For as long as I can remember, HIS was the name first and 

foremost in my mind whenever anyone asked me about the 

truly important steps made in hybridizing. His contributions to 

the daylily world will live on forever in all of our gardens, and 

his cultivars will be used in many more generations of daylilies 

yet to come. My deepest sympathies to all his family and 

friends who are mourning this tragic loss. 

Pam Erikson, B.C. Canada - Region 8, zone 7 

To all, 

From: Bob Roycroft 


Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 12:31 AM 

Subject: Bill Munson 

Thank you all for the posts concerning Bill Munson. I have only 

met him through what I have read and heard and through some 

of his fabulous daylilies—we currently grow 22 of his introductions 

and all of these reportedly grow well over a wide range of 

climate zone; no wimps in these 22! We and our staff routinely 

make a blanket statement to our cold-climate, walk-in customers 

that the 20 Munson evergreens we currently offer should do 

well for them. This blanket statement concerning evergreens is 

made only for Bill Munson’s evergreens—not for any other 

hybridizer’s. I’ve heard stories about how this great Florida hybridizer 

approached breeding for cold hardiness but it is second 

and third hand info. Could some knowledgeable person share the 

true story with the Robin and also mention those who were instrumental 

in assisting him in accomplishing this cold hardiness 

with so many of his evergreens 

I stood in our garden on yesterday’s October morning and had 

some quiet time just looking at a clump of Bill Munson’s famous 

OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON (1974) in a display bed with 

three blooming scapes and four new scapes emerging. It is special 

to see such performance so late in the year; visiting with 

one of his intros, in its full glory, was extra special. (I also recalled 

that it was Ra Hansen who first recommended OLIVE 

BAILEY LANGDON to me for its showy very early bloom, and, 

then for its showy very late bloom.) 

My absolute favorite Munson cultivar is AFRICAN GRAPE—a 

1991 registration. I am amazed that Eureka lists only six growers 

who offer it. AFRICAN GRAPE is robust with the most beautiful 

foliage imaginable; a good increaser; great branching and 

bud count on its sturdy 28" tall scapes; a cold-hardy evergreen; 

and, the 6" rich claret purple blooms are sunfast! This daylily 

has “Stout” written all over it, in my opinion, and to my knowledge 

has not had the necessary distribution and exposure to even 

win a lesser award. (Someone please correct me if I am mistaken.) 

The lack of recognition is probably largely due to the fact that its 

first (of several) scapes start blooming in late mid-season—approximately 

7-10 days after most Regionals and the National (as 

is the case with many “unknown” greats). 

Clarence and Beth Crochet visited our nursery in July. Clarence 

was so impressed with AFRICAN GRAPE that he left with three 

multiple-fan three-gallon pots of it! So, soon Eureka will have 

another grower who offers it. Great! I’m sure that Clarence and 

Beth will do a fantastic job in helping to promote and spread this 

wonderful introduction of Bill’s to many. Maybe it will soon be 

universally recognized for the great daylily it is! (We shortly plan 

to have AFRICAN GRAPE as the “Featured Cultivar of the Week” 

on our new web site which came on line last Sunday. 

Bill Munson, your presence will be felt each summer for decades 

to come in all of our gardens whether we had the pleasure of personally 

meeting you or not. Thanks for the pleasure you give us! 

Sincerely, 

Bob Roycroft, Roycroft Daylily Nursery 

Georgetown, SC (lower zone 8) 

Nursery e-mail: rdn@sccoast.net 

http://www.roycroftdaylilies.com 

From: Jeanne Norris 

 


Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:11 PM 

Subject: Bill Munson, we will miss you. 

If you never had the opportunity to meet Bill Munson, you may 

still be the recipient of his God given talents in hybridizing 

daylilies. He was a master of his “trade”. Munson cultivars are 

grown in all sections of the world. 

The first time I heard his name was in the early 1960’s. When I 

would make my yearly pilgrimages to Ophelia Taylor’s garden, 

just outside of Silver Springs. She always had such high praise 

for Bill Munson. Bill, she explained, was a young man in 

Gainesville who was doing great things in his hybridizing program 

with daylilies. She also spoke very highly of his mother, 

Ida. We were growing TOVARICH (1965), a beautiful dark red 

daylily, hybridized by R. Munson. Ophelia was quick to correct 

me and told me, he was the Senior and Bill was the Junior. We 

were friends with another hybridizer who lived in DeLand, named 

Connie Fleishel. Connie was a protegee of both, Bill and Ophelia. 

We would be visiting her garden, and sometimes, she would have 

to leave to meet the Greyhound bus. Bill had telephoned earlier 

that day and said he was sending her some special pollen. She 

had to rush to meet the bus, pick it up her priceless package, and 

put in the refrigerator to use for the next days crosses. Bill named 

a special cultivar for her, ALENE CONSTANCE FLEISHEL 

(1968). 

Our first trip to the Munson garden was at their home across the 

“tracks” from Shands Hospital. Bill & I invited Ed & Mary Helen 

(continued next page) 



Tributes to R. William Munson, Jr. (continued) 

Kirchhoff (David’s parents) to drive up to Gainesville with us one 

Sunday afternoon. Ida had placed the garden chairs in front of a 

bed of the most beautiful rose pink daylilies that we had ever 

seen. BRIGHT CLOUDS (1969) was in full bloom. BC had not 

been introduced, but after much raving over its beauty, Ed worked 

his charm on Ida. He went home with a prized fan. BRIDAL 

SATIN (1969) was one of the first of Bill Munson cultivars that 

we grew. If you can find it in a garden today, you would still be 

enchanted by its beauty. ANTE BELLUM (1961) and “Bridal 

Satin” were used extensively by many of the earlier hybridizers 

in their programs. 

Bill and his family moved to their new home, Wimberlyway (WW) 

in 1968. My Mother and I had to live in a motel, in Gainesville, 

for three months while my Father was a patient at Shands Hospital. 

To break the monotony of being at the hospital all day, I 

would drive Mother out to WW for a short visit with Ida and Bill. 

They were always so gracious to us. I wish I could have taken her 

there during bloom season, but this was September through November. 

There are several of us who live in this area, that were privileged 

to be invited to their home for Ida’s January birthday celebrations. 

It was like a second Christmas party. Bloom season was 

always another excuse for many of us to steal away and head for 

WW for the weekend. As we drove into the driveway, we would 

be greeted by a sea of daylilies as far as we could see. The array 

of colors was breathtaking. The next day, Sunday, we were up 

with the sun, leave our motels and head for Wimberly Way. There 

would be breakfast in the gardens. Bill, Ida, Betty, and Elizabeth 

Ann would be chasing around with all of us, weaving in and out 

of the numerous daylily beds. They would be pointing out the 

newest seedlings and introductions. I remember one day when 

were at lunch (eating those delicious home grown tomatoes Ida 

always grew), I asked Bill, “How did you get those dainty gold 

edges on PORCELAIN WREN (1980) With a very serious look 

on his face, he answered, “Well, Jean, when all of you are asleep, 

I take a little pot of gold paint and go out and paint each bloom 

before any of you arrive.” Then he threw his head back and laughed 

and laughed. Bill had a wonderful sense of humor. 

The last time we saw Bill was this past May. We were on our way 

to the Region 12 Spring Regional in Lake City. Bill & I stopped at 

WW to visit Betty and her husband Joe. Betty knew that we had 

been having trouble coming up with a good definition for a “Patterned 

Daylily.”. She suggested that Sunday, on our way home, 

that we stop by. If Bill felt like it, we could visit with him and 

discuss the definition. That is what we did. Bill’s voice was very 

low, but the enthusiasm and love for the daylilies was evident. 

Betty ran out to the garden a couple of times to bring him blooms 

of his STRAWBERRY CUPCAKE (1992) and several seedlings. 

He cupped each one in his hands and with his long fingers, gently 

pointed out the pattern in each one. Just watching Bill, as he 

held each flower in his hands, was like watching someone holding 

a precious treasure, being very careful not to crush it. I still 

have a very warm feeling in my heart when I think about that 

day. 

Bill was very touched that the members of Region 12 voted to 

honor him with an award in his name. It was his wish that the 

award be for a patterned daylily. 

We are so thankful that he knew how much the people in Region 

12 “treasured” him. We have been working to establish a R.W. 

Munson, Jr. Award for a “Patterned Daylily” on the Awards and 

Honors Ballots. Our prayer is that it will become a fact and not 

just a dream. 

Many have written about Bill Munson being a legend, and being 

the steering force in the hybridizing of the tetraploid daylily, 

and about his generosity in sharing his knowledge about daylilies, 

but “my” Bill & I will always remember him as a very special 

man that we were privileged to call our friend. Bill's cultivars 

are classics and will always be considered so, as long as 

daylilies are in existence. We will miss him, but we can sing his 

praises over and over, every time we see a “Munson” daylily. 

Jean Norris, AHS Region 12 Director, Sanford, FL 

From: Patricia Loveland 


Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 6:31 AM 

Subject: Remembering Bill Munson 

Dear Robins, This is Pat Loveland, from Western Oregon, Reg. 

8. I was but a newbie a few years ago (1994) when I consulted 

Bill Munson’s HEMEROCALLIS, The Daylily for advice on choosing 

some of my first daylilies. I remember one, in particular, 

FRED HAM, which was described as being “Very Special”. This 

summer, I was reminded of those words when my piece of FRED 

HAM bloomed those huge voluptuous blooms nonstop for much 

of my bloom period. Other classic daylilies described in that book, 

and that have made a statement in my garden this season are 

COURT MAGICIAN and MALAYSIAN MONARCH, both with 

that famous watermark or “chalky” eye. The hybridizer of these 

plants, Bill Munson, was something special himself, so I learned 

from the article by Ted Petit that appeared in the Spring 1995 

issue of The Daylily Journal. Before the 1997 AHS convention 

in Jacksonville FL, Diane Taylor, Diana Grenfell, Roger Grounds 

and I were traveling together touring gardens. Ted Petit suggested 

that we stop by Wimberlyway Gardens. How glad I am 

we took his advice, and how I treasured those moments when 

Bill Munson came out and chatted with us, and answered Diana’s 

many questions as she gathered information for her book. 

Mr. Munson’s memory will live on in the many beautiful daylilies 

that have descended from the products of his dedication and 

persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. 

Pat Loveland, Corvallis, in Western Oregon AHS Region 8, USDA 

Zone 8 

From: Boyd Farar, Corpus Christi, Texas 

Befarar@AOL.COM> 


Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:28 PM 

Subject: Tribute to Bill Munson 

Boyd Farar Corpus Christi, TX AHS Reg. 6 USDA Zone 9 

Not many people who were raised in Arizona and other arid 

states know about daylilies and other assorted perennials. I was 

one of those. I knew I could grow flowers and plants but I did not 

really know until I moved to Florida in 1979. I was living in 

Gainesville, Florida and had a friend who was studying landscape 

architecture at the University of Florida (Yea, GO 

GATORS!). Anyway, my friend said lets go visit this garden, 

you’ll like it. Well, to keep this message short, we went to 

Wimberlyway Gardens. I did not know daylilies nor do I remember 

ever seeing any. It would not surprise any of you to know 

that I was hook from that first visit. I especially enjoyed walking 

the wide avenues between very large rows with large hedges 




Tribut 

ributes es to R. William Munson, Jr.(cont.) 

at the backs of each one. It was wonderful looking at all the daylilies 

from Bill, Betty, Ida and Elizabeth. I started collecting as 

many of Bill’s as I could find. The inexpensive ones, of course. I 

visited Wimberlyway several times each Spring until I moved to 

Texas in 1990. 

I did not meet Bill but have had a couple conversations with Betty 

Hudson. When I would order from Wimberlyway, I would always 

write Go Gators! on the envelopes and Betty would always write 

Go Gators! on the receipts! I have fond memories of Wimberlyway. 

I have had many cultivars of Bill’s and will always have as many 

as I can keep. I like the larger flowers and all those big bold eyes; 

I like tea stained eyes and clear colorful daylilies. My favorites 

include: PALACE LANTERN, CHEYENNE SKIES, OLIVE 

BAILEY LANGDON, DEVIL’S MAGIC, SILVER ICE, SILVER 

MIST, IDA’S MAGIC (Ida’s), BORGIA QUEEN, GRAND OPERA, 

KATE CARPENTER (the closest one to getting the Stout), RUS- 

SIAN RHAPSODY, CAROLYN HENDRIX...Oh, I must stop! The 

daylily world will not be the same and will miss Bill’s contributions. 

Thank you for all you’ve done, Bill! And, thank you to all 

who have written other messages. Go in peace! 

From: TAHIR 

NADEEM 



Subject: BILL MUNSON 

Dear Daylily Friends 

All daylily lovers in PAKISTAN are saddened on the sad 

demise of Bill Munson. He will certainly live through his 

beautiful creations of color and form in our gardens. God 

may bless his soul to live in peace for ever. 

Tahir Nadeem, From Islamabad, Pakistan. 

From: Timothy J. Fehr 



Subject: Tributes 

Gentle Robins: 

I have been touched by many of the tributes to Bill 

Munson. He touched so many of our lives through his 

writing, his flowers and in person. 

His book, Hemerocallis: The Daylily was the spark that 

started my infatuation with daylilies. 

Tim Fehr Eau Claire, WI USDA Zone 3-4 AHS Region 2 

Editor’s note: 

Many of the October 3 email messages had been printed in 

the Fall/Winter 99 Region 4 Newsletter issue. The messages 

here have been selected from additional ones of those days. 

1999 Fall all Midwest est Hybridizers’ s’ Meeting 

ting (cont. from page 7) 

including a fringed, toothed gem from ENCHANTED APRIL 

x FOREST LAKE RAGAMUFFIN. Several slides of his kids 

from a converted HOLLY DANCER x MIGHTY HIGHTY 

TIGHTY–while impressive–were even more stunning in 

person when I visited his garden this past summer. These 

seedlings bring HD’s intense red coloration into the tet 

spider gene pool. Jamie also showed a slide of an absolutely 

stunning Dan Hansen’s HAPPY APACHE. While 

not as narrow as tetraploid spider fanciers might strive 

for, HA is out of Dan’s 1999 ROSES IN SNOW, which has 

passed its wide white edge onto a narrower form. 

The slide presentations concluded with John Benz showing 

slides of some of his recent work. The sheer number of 

interesting seedlings prevents me from even beginning to 

do justice in describing this slide show. Among the parents 

producing his possible future introductions are TET 

RUFFLED PERFECTION, TET BARBARA MITCHELL, 

STARTLE, TET CHRISTMAS IS, TET GRAND MASTERPIECE, 

JANET BENZ, TET JEDI BRENDA SPANN, TET JEDI DOT 

PIERCE, TET NEAL BERRY, ANGEL’S SMILE, ONE STEP BE- 

YOND, IDA’S BRAID, and many others. 

One bit of advice passed on by John was that TET GRAND 

MASTERPIECE should be used only with cultivars possessing 

heavy substance; otherwise, the resulting offspring 

will not open well. Also newsworthy was the fact that 

Jamie Gossard has finally convinced John to work with 

spiders, and a slide of RED SUSPENDERS x TET BLACK 

PLUSH is indicative of John’s ability to transfer his knowledge 

to other arenas. John concluded by showing 10 slides 

from Dan Trimmer. It is enough to point out that Dan Trimmer 

will remain on the cutting edge of “daylilydom” for some 

time to come. 

Lest one think that the day’s activities were confined to slide 

presentations, interesting discussions on a variety of topics 

abounded. Dick Norris reported a possible break among 

his seedlings. He related that he had bloomed a purpleeyed 

cultivar that had no colored edge, but that had purple 

tentacles. No one else could recall ever seeing anything 

similar. Other discussion topics included: reluctant pod 

parents, most fertile pod and most fertile pollen tetraploids, 

soil amendments, and more. One interesting topic of these 

discussion explored whether or not there was any merit in 

attempting to achieve bloom on seedlings within nine 

months. Nearly everyone agreed that little was gained in 

most cases, because the bloom on such immature seedlings 

was generally not representative of its future blooms. Only 

where the 9-month bloom was obviously of unusual quality, 

was this advantage perceived: that of being able to use the 

seedling for breeding purposes a year earlier than otherwise 

would be the case. 

Thank You, ou, Shirley y Farmer 

armer, , for all your hard wor 

ork k in 

putting on yet another successful meeting. 

DID YOU KNOW ...that you can... 

$ Surf the Net and learn more about daylilies 

$ Visit the American Hemerocallis Society Web-Site address at: 

http://www.da 

.daylilies.org/da 

ylilies.org/daylilies.html 

ylilies.html 

$ You can “travel” to many interesting daylily sites by clicking on links on the AHS Web 

Site (If you don't have a computer, visit your local library. Friendly librarians will be glad 

to help you navigate the high seas of the Internet. 



Region 2 Symposium 2000 – WOW W – What an Auction! 

one other than our new AHS President Kay Day 

and the esteemed, master entertainer and wellknown 

hybridizer David Kirchhoff orchestrated 

an outstandingly successful and lively auction of daylily 

cultivars–donated by so many generous regional 

and out-of-region AHS members, a marvelous pen and 

ink daylily drawing by Linda Michaels of Region 4, an 

AHS Life Membership donated by Kay Day herself, 

and the first edition, Daylilies: the Wild Species and Garden 

Clones, Both Old and New, of the Genus Hemerocallis, by A. 

B. Stout. First Edition, New York, Macmillan, 1934, donated 

by Bob O’Neal, and garnered by Scott Bennett. 

Here are guest speaker Kathy Guest’s (Region 4) words 

to the AHS E-mail Robin (printed with her permission): 

“But the banquet was the real treat. Kay Day and The 

David are like Burns and Allen, Lucy and Desi, Astaire 

and Ginger...deftly working the crowd, keeping them 

laughing and buying until long after this girl had to 

turn in. Some very special moments included the auctioning 

of an original artwork by Linda Michaels of 

Bob Schwarz’s GHOSTDANCER. David managed to 

Thank You 

to all you 

donors and 

bidders of the 

Region 2 

Symposium 

2000 

Auction 

Right: 

Kay Day 

and 

David Kirchhoff 

orchestrating an 

exciting and 

financially 

successful 

auction benefitting 


get the price up to $300 almost instantly–disappointing Bob, who really wanted it (pen and ink and very, very 

beautiful). And then Kay, who was the successful bidder, presented her prize to Mimi–which brought the room 

down. Bob was then the successful bidder for a lifetime membership for both him and Mimi–no doubt in the 

afterglow of Kay’s beautiful gesture. And friends, there is NO-ONE who can work a room like David Kirchhoff.” 

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Ellison Perennials grows an extensive line of perennials including most of the 

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Come and visit us during 

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and see some of the prettiest seedlings around. 

Dates of Bloomfest: 

by Gisela Meckstroth 

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The opportunity to address a captive 

audience, as it were, is just 

about irresistible. When I was invited 

to write a bit for the Newsletter, 

it seemed like a pretty simple 

thing to do. As it happened, as soon 

as I had said my diffident “probably 

yes” I found myself at a loss for 

words. Fortunately, the deadline 

for this issue was so far away at that 

moment that I was reasonably 

hopeful that something would occur 

to me by the time it was required. 

We suffer from a certain compulsion, 

most of us daylily lovers! We 

are addicted to the newest introductions 

from our favorite hybridizers. 

We daub pollen as though we knew 

what we were doing. We wait a 

couple of years to see the results, 

and then, reluctantly, trash almost 

all of them. I think we need to take 

a closer look at this condition of 

ours, and perhaps try for a little 

more detached perspective on ourselves. 

I’ll contribute to that with 

whatever little bits and pieces I can 

come up with. 

I suffer from another compulsion: 

the compulsion to count, list, measure, 

and tally everything in sight. 

We will take some peeks inside the 

world of data, using our dearly loved 

daylilies as the vehicle for our voyage. 

Hemerocoholicism 

How did we all get wrapped up in 

this compulsive addiction to Hemerocallis 

I have several theories, none 

of them flattering to us who are in 

the condition. We are just fortunate 

that there is an almost infinite number 

of varieties out there waiting to 

help us deal with our drives to collect 

ever more types of the daylily. 

We delude ourselves that daylilies 

are tough and self-sufficient, so that 

we are really not increasing the 

amount of work we have to do car- 


Iconoclast’s Corner 

By Jim Shields, Indiana 

ing for our plants even if we do order 

30 or 50 new plants. If you 

choose carefully, not a single plant 

among those 50 new cultivars will 

be tough, let alone self-sufficient in 

our climate zones. The only self-sufficient 

daylily I ever saw was 

Hemerocallis fulva ‘Europa’, which 

can survive abandoned by the roadsides 

for a century or more. 

We convince ourselves that those 

new pinkish mauve flowers with the 

swollen, wrinkled edges of yellow 

are each unique and are all different 

and significantly better than the 

ones of similar appearance, but who 

are named differently from those we 

planted a year ago. Even worse, 

some of us actually manage to believe 

that the wretched things are 

beautiful. 

With the invaluable assistance 

of fellow members 

of the Daylily E-mail Robin and 

of AHS generally, we are going 

to build a set of observations on 

foliage that will help to settle 

the question – at least for the 

cultivars covered thoroughly 

enough in our surveys. 

You should help us out 

on this. 

We love beauty, we search for beautiful 

flowers, we crave the unique, 

the novel, the new. We spend ridiculous 

amounts of money for new 

introductions with the weak rationalization 

that we will make all that 

money back when we sell the future 

divisions of these expensive weeds. 

We vilify our friends and colleagues 

who dare to suggest that an occasional 

variety of these plants is less 

than totally hardy, less than totally 

desirable. 

The worst of us, typified by myself, 

make lists of the names of these 

things. The longer the list, the better 

we feel about it. In fact, the better 

we feel about the whole world. 

It’s really rather sad. 

Counting Everything in Sight 

I am in favor of counting and measuring 

everything not moving too 

fast to get a good look at. 

Let’s start with buds. Melanie Mason 

has suggested that bud counts 

on Florida plants decrease by 5 buds 

for every climate zone farther north 

in which we try to grow them. I 

think I may have suggested to 

Melanie that the bud count declines 

as an exponential function rather 

than a linear one, but Melanie’s hypothesis 

has priority of date. I wish 

we could say the converse was true 

of northern daylilies as you move 

them south. It’s too bad we can’t 

make that measurement too. 

However, we can certainly count the 

buds on our scapes. We don’t even 

have to count the buds on every 

scape nor on every variety we grow. 

Let’s just count the buds on the varieties 

that interest us the most. 

Join in and help us see if Melanie 

is on the right track! 

I am also dedicated to determining 

foliage habits for as many daylily 

cultivars as I can get our fellow enthusiasts 

to study. The hybridizers 

are generally pretty close on to 

the true condition, in my opinion. 

However, that is just my opinion; it 

is not a scientifically verified fact. 

With the invaluable assistance of 

fellow members of the Daylily E- 

mail Robin and of AHS generally, 

we are going to build a set of observations 

on foliage that will help 

to settle the question–at least for the 

cultivars covered thoroughly enough 

in our surveys. You should help us 

out on this. 

(continued on page 17)

Iconoclast’s Corner 

Continued from page 16) 

There are daylily people who are really seriously interested 

in extending the bloom season. Yes, we know 

that BITSY blooms really early in the Spring. We also 

realize that odds and ends of rebloom appear late in 

the season, like scattered pennants of a defeated army 

strewn across the battlefield of our garden. But some 

of us are hard-core season extenders! I want to see 

some color besides yellow in my Extra Early daylily 

bed. I want to see fresh, full scapes bursting into bloom 

in August, not some ragtag crew of stragglers putting 

up one last gasp. 

We need to identify daylilies that truly flower in the 

EE season, and we need to identify the true VLa flowering 

varieties. 

To do this and to further this notion of extended bloom 

season, we conduct a survey of bloom times each season. 

We record the date on which the first flower of a 

variety was open in our garden, the FFO date. Sometimes 

we even record the date on which the last flower 

of the variety was open, the LFO date; this is a much 

harder thing to do. 

Each of these surveys results in data contributed by 

participants; I combine the various individual data sets 

into one and merge it with the existing database for 

each survey. Then a new release is prepared and announced, 

and we can distribute the new data – with 

the old – to interested members of the AHS. 

I see that I have been on my best behavior this time. If 

there is a next time, I may vent a little spleen. 

These are my opinions. You probably have opinions of 

your own, but if not, you are welcome to borrow mine. 

Jim Shields 


Editor's note: For more information about downloading 

the database, contact Jim at jshields@indy.net 

Do you know that there is a ("snail-mail") 

Species/Scientific ic Robin 

obin If you are interested in 

joining, contact: 

John Schabell, Leader 

59 Gifford Court 

Mundelein, IL 60060-3018 

And for those interested in joining the E-mail A B 

Stout Scientific ic Robin 

obin, contact co-leaders: 

Jim Shields at Jshields@indy.net 

or 

Jim Brennan at jrbjgb@rcn.com 



Region 2 Symposium – Year 2000 

Cleveland, Ohio 

On behalf of Region 2, I wish to extend appreciation for a job well done to Curt Hanson, host of our 8th annual 

AHS Region 2 Symposium, March 3-5 in Cleveland, Ohio. Curt provided us with a great lineup of speakers 

whose subjects were varied. Dwight Alsbach, curator of slides and noise makers, provided the entertainment 

enjoyed by all, and Registrar Juli Hyatt was the glue that binds an event together. Plans are already being 

formulated by Curt for Symposium 2001 (the true millennium). The following is a recap of events, and we 

certainly hope this inspires you to make plans to set next year’s date aside and attend. Thank you Curt, Juli, 

Dwight, and all who attended this informative, uplifting, fun-filled event. 

Mary Milanowski 

A Presentation by Dr. . Kevin Vaughn 

It’s A Small World After All….. 

Breeding Miniatures 

Dr. Kevin Vaughn informed the Region 2 crowd 

that growing daylilies in the Mississippi delta 

was easy, since all of us Midwesterners sent 

our best soil to the delta for the cultivation of plants. 

Originally from New England, Kevin has been interested 

in miniature daylilies for quite some time, and 

has developed a lot of his ideas and techniques about 

daylily hybridization from his work with food crops for 

the USDA. The three main characteristics that Kevin 

finds appealing in a miniature daylily are: 

1.) density of blossoms, 2.) compact flowering, and 3.) 

the “look of a bouquet,” which are all related to the 

propensity of miniature daylilies to gain clump strength 

rather quickly. 

Dr. Vaughn has developed both miniature diploids and 

tetraploids, with the most promising diploids being 

converted by Kevin for use in his tetraploid programs. 

In the round diploids, Kevin showed seedlings from 

his many different lines of breeding that were developed 

from his introductions such as BEAT THE BUG, 

a 3 ½ " bright yellow with a red eyezone (1996; BEAT 

THE BARONS X SILOAM DOODLEBUG); SEE MY 

ETCHINGS, a 3 ½ " cream with a blue-violet eyezone, 

ala Elizabeth Salter (1996; SILOAM BO PEEP X 

WITCHING HOUR); and DELTA BELLE, a 4" clear 

pink (1996; TRUE HEART X SILOAM APPLE BLOS- 

SOM). One kid in the blue-violet eyezone program, D- 

115-1, which is out of (EXOTIC KISS X (SUMMER 

ECHOES X SILOAM TINY TIM) has a very prominent 

spiky “blue eyezone” on a white petal. It appears 

as if the eyezone has been pulled with a thin painter’s 

brush up onto the petals at 1/8" intervals around the 


by Greg McMullen, Indiana 

Dr. Kevin 

Vaughn 

holding the 

AHS 

Publication: 

Some Basic 

Hemerocallis 

Genetics 

by J. Norton. 

petal. Another plant, FAIRY BALLET, which is from 

the DELTA BELLE line, is one of the tiniest plants 

that Kevin has produced to date, with a 12" scape and 

2 ½" diameter blossoms. Most of these lines owe a debt 

of gratitude to Pauline Henry, who has paved the road 

for many of Kevin’s successes. 

Kevin is also exploring miniatures with prominent edges 

and no eyes, from crosses involving plants such as BEAU- 

TIFUL EDGINGS (Copenhaver 1989) and RAINING 

VIOLETS (Wild 1983), with some successes such as an 

unnamed seedling that was yellow with a pink edge. 

Kevin also spends time daubing with miniature doubles, 

which are also called “popcorn doubles”. These seedlings 

have been developed from such notable award winners 

such as SILOAM DOUBLE CLASSIC (Henry 1985) 

and JANICE BROWN (EC Brown 1986) crossed with 

lesser known plants such as BUBBLY (Joiner 1986) and 

(continued on page 19)


It’s A Small World After All…Breeding Miniatures (cont.) 

CUTE THING (Joiner 1994), as well as some of his 

own seedlings. Kevin showed a wonderful diversity of 

progeny from the cross of (BUBBLY X SILOAM 

DOUBLE CLASSIC), each of which was very special 

and appealing to the eye. 

On the more recent tetraploid end of the spectrum, 

one of the critical issues that Kevin has been struggling 

with is the tendency of so many tetraploids to 

have very strong and erect (straight) scapes. Kevin 

believes that a more relaxed scape is more desirable, 

which is consistent with the desire to have the clumps 

have the look of a bouquet as mentioned earlier. Kevin 

has converted plants such as PENNY’S WORTH (Hager 

1987) to add its unique size to his miniature tetraploid 

Dr. Vaughn thanked Midwesterners for 

sending all their top soil down the Mississippi 

River, saying that it was a pleasure growing 

plants in loam instead in the veneer-like top soil 

of New England. 

(Words recalled by Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio) 

Region 2 Symposium 2000 (continued) 

A Presentation by Bill Hendrix 

of Klyn Nurseries 

Beyond Daylilies...Creating Seasonal 

Interest in the Garden 

by Martha Seaman, Ohio 

One of the most enjoyable lectures at the Region 2 Symposium 

was given by Bill Hendrix, of Klyn Nurseries, 

who suggested many interesting, mostly new plants to 

enhance our gardens throughout the year. 

lines, but has had difficulty with mini’s that were not 

always fully recurved as diploids becoming a more “tulip 

form” as they were converted to tetraploid versions 

of themselves. 

Kevin has incorporated plants from many sources into 

his tetraploid miniature lines, including plants from 

Elizabeth Salter (IN THE NAVY, 1993, MARY ETHEL 

ANDERSON, 1995, and HOT SECRET, 1996), Grace 

Stamile (BROADWAY VALENTINE, 1994), Pat 

Stamile (ELEGANT CANDY, 1995), Phil Reilly 

(FOOLED ME, 1990), ANGEL’S SMILE (Reckamp- 

Klehm, 1985) and the tetraploid conversions of 

JANICE BROWN and EXOTIC ECHO. One of the 

plants that Kevin has developed has been named EVIL 

EYE, which is a funny name for a very bold beautiful 

eyed cultivar that has loads of buds. Kevin has also 

developed a lot of promising seedlings from ELEGANT 

CANDY, an intermediate sized bloom that he describes 

as “too big for Grace and too small for Pat.” 

Kevin has even developed some miniature tetraploid 

doubles, one in particular, that was a beautiful cranberry 

color with a white edge that was developed out of a cross 

of (DOUBLE TROUBLE X FIRES OF FUJI). Some of 

Kevin’s most promising miniature tetraploids are coming 

out of conversions of his own mini diploids, such as 

DELTA BELLE. The kids from tetraploid DELTA 

BELLE are expressing a high degree of inheritance from 

grandparent SILOAM APPLE BLOSSOM, exhibiting a 

very clear and clean pink color. Kevin has had less success 

from his conversion of tetraploid D-115-1, which was 

crossed with Elizabeth Salter’s IN THE NAVY, and produced 

some lackluster plants. Kevin believes that there 

will still be plenty of challenge ahead as he attempts 

to refine this line into a more refined and beautiful 

counter to the wonderful successes that he had with 

the diploid version of this seedling. 

Bill Hendrix of Klyn Nurseries giving a 

riveting talk with slides to show us how to keep 

our daylily gardens interesting year round. 

He began with Late Winter to Early Spring, recommending 

the Spring Witch Hazels (Hamamelis cultivars), 

yellow- and red-twig Dogwoods (Cornus 'Silver 

and Gold'), several varieties of Pussy Willow (Salix 

chaenomeloides, or Rabbit's Foot Willow), Lenten Rose 

(Heleborus orientalis), and White Forsythia, which is 

not Forsythia at all but is Abeliophyllum distichum. 

Mr. Hendrix also gave specific pruning advice for some 

of the above plants so we can regenerate our aging 

plants and persuade them to continue their vigorous 

annual bloom. 

Mid to Late Spring brings the flowers of Spiraea, 

Deutzia, and Weigela. There are exciting new varieties 

of all these lovely shrubs, specifically Spiraea x c. 

'Grefsheim'. He showed slides of Rubidor Weigel, which 

has a light green-gold foliage, and ‘Wine and Roses’ 

Weigela, which has burgundy foliage. 

Early to Mid Summer, when our daylilies are in full 

continued on page 20 




Bill Hendrix of Klyn Nurseries 

(continued) 

bloom, Mr. Hendrix encourages us to complement them 

with Butterfly Bush (Buddleia cultivars), many kinds of 

Hydrangea cultivars, and new varieties of Spiraea which, 

with proper deadheading and pruning, give a long season 

of bloom. He also gave tips on how to give winter 

protection to Hydrangea macrophylla cultivars so blossoms 

can come from old wood even after severe Midwest 

winters (protect at least 2-3 good sets of buds). 

In Mid to Late Summer, just after the daylilies have 

finished in our northern garden, Bill suggested adding 

garden color with pretty blue Caryopteris 'Dark Knight' 

for example. He suggested using Yellow Senna (Cassia 

hebecarpa), Giant Hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos cvs.) 

for moist spots,Yellow Waxbells (Kirengeshoma 

palmata), Rodgersia, Gibralter Bushclover (Lepediza 

'Gibralter'), and the (new to this country) Seven Son 

Flower (Heptacodium miconioides) which can be a woody 

shrub or a small tree. 

He reminded us about the dramatic effects of grasses in 

our landscapes during this late summer period. There 

are many exciting varieties of Miscanthus, Pennisetum, 

Panicum, and lots of others to round out the main garden 

season. 

In the Fall to Winter time, most of us think the garden 

is finished. Bill Hendrix suggested, however, that 

we could continue to have color with the flowers of Japanese 

Anemone and the spectacular berries of Japanese 

Beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma), and the deciduous, 

cold hardy Winterberry Red (also known as Michigan 

Holly), and Winterberry Gold (Ilex verticillata hybrids), 

some of which hold their fruit until November. 

As the garden finishes for the year, probably the last bloom 

will be on the Common Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana), 

which brightens the early winter with unusual form and 

twisty, ribbonlike flowers. 

Then, we can start all over again in late winter with the 

Spring Witch Hazels! 

Thank 

You! 

ou! 

A big Thank You from your Region 

2 Newsletter editor. 

Again, so many of you volunteered 

to write up the wonderful Symposium 

presentations. 

Yours is the special dedication I 

have found so admirable in daylily 

lovers. 

Gisela 

Symposium photo credits: Ed Myers and Gisela Meckstroth 

Oscie Whatley’s Ref 

eflections 

Hardy Contributions from om a Missouri Hybridizer 

by Gerda Brooker, Ohio 

Wow, what a time we had at Symposium 2000 in Cleveland, 

Ohio. One of the best meetings I had been to in a 

while, and I like them all. Our regional editor asked 

me to recap Oscie Whatley’s talk and to interview him 

at the same time. What a fine gentleman he is, and as 

I already knew, full of knowledge of a lot of things, but 

very much involved with his big passion: daylilies. 

His passion began about fifty years ago in his aunt’s 

Oscie 

Whatley, a 

hybridizer 

much 

revered by 

all. 

garden, who trained a very young Oscie in selecting, 

and hybridizing, etc. Oscie started really getting into 

the act big time about 35 years ago, and was hooked. 

By watching George and Jane Pettus, he became interested 

in conversions and–as we know–has done some 

wonderful work in converting diploids to tetraploids. 

Malcolm and I do grow a number of his converted material 

in our garden. 

As a hybridizer, Oscie works with more than daylilies. 

He also hybridizes trees, like the dogwood, and various 

other plants. He tells however, that 98% of the 

time he works with daylilies. Good for him, and good 

for us. 

As he began to speak, one knew whatever he had to 

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Oscie Whatley’s Ref 

eflections 

(continued) 

say was worth listening to. Oscie, who believes in hardy 

and disease resistant cultivars more than in just “pretty 

faces,” stressed the point that we can achieve those attributes, 

i.e. carefree cultivars, by “hybridizing ourselves 

out of the problem of weakness, disease, etc.” 

Years ago no one worried about crown rot, spring sickness, 

various kinds of foliage disease, insects etc., but 

with the improvements of flowers, which according to 

his words, have gone to astronomical levels, the plants 

themselves–other than the scapes–have become 

weaker. We no longer have carefree plants. According 

to Oscie “the spray-gun has become our weapon of 

choice; however, we are loosing the war.” He contents 

Oscie, who believes in hardy and disease 

resistant cultivars more than just “pretty 

faces,” stressed the point that we can 

achieve those attributes, i.e. carefree cultivars, 

by hybridizing ourselves out of the 

problem of weakness, disease, etc. 

that fruit and tomato growers have done well, and they 

do market disease resistant produce. We, as daylily 

growers, cannot claim the same as yet. 

Solutions Mr. Whatley suggested, picking the right 

kind of parents, right kind of seedlings, and the right 

kind of introductions, in order to gain some ground in 

the direction of resistance to pests and other ailments. 

Oscie admonishes us as growers to challenge our plant, 

so to speak, by putting them under normal conditions 

in normal soil in disease infested areas, and, if our little 

darlings do not catch anything, they may then be resistant 

to bad stuff. Do you suppose we could raise our 

kids that way Just a thought. 

Even though Oscie admits that he does not always 

practice what he preaches, he tries. None of us could 

do all the “right” things 100% of the time. 

During a break in the presentation, Oscie answered 

questions. Someone asked how he felt about scape-blasting 

(I thought she was talking about cussing a cultivar, 

you know, like “blast that scape”). Boy, was I wrong! 

There are actually scapes which will blast apart. His 

reply was that scape blasting was about as unwanted 

in his garden as a bad relative at a family reunion. If it 

happens, and you must hybridize on the bloom which 

sits on top of that blasted scape, you can save the bloom 

for this purpose by taping a splint made of bamboo to 

keep the top part of the blasted scape alive (I can just 

see myself heading for Steve Moldovan’s and Roy 

Woodhall’s garden to get some bamboo. They have so 

much of it, that China needs to get in touch with them.) 

Anyhow, Oscie told us that he never saw scape-blasting 

in any diploid daylilies; it is peculiar only to tetraploids, 

and only to those which have really thick scapes. 

The spindly, skinny scapes do not blast apart. 

Oscie showed some wonderful slides of the cultivars 

of the various hybridizers around his area. Some of 

them may not be very well-known, but their efforts 

were rather lovely. I liked some of the doubles of a 

hybridizer by the name of Frank Kropf. Bob Scott had 

some wonderful cultivars, and so did Brian Mahieu. 

That’s what I was referring to when I said that Oscie 

is a true gentleman. He felt it worthwhile to bring some 

slides of hybridizers he admired, and rightfully so. 

Oscie volunteered his age to me, and I was amazed 

what a young “oldie” he is. By his own admission, he 

likes big flowers which do not need to be prompted but 

which grow without much fuss where they are planted. 

A gentlemen he is, and a very humble one indeed. He 

was very concerned that some of those less-known hybridizers 

had a chance to have their efforts displayed 

at a meeting such as ours, where lots of collectors and 

hybridizers attend. I appreciated him for that, as well 

as for his knowledge of the daylily mysteries, which 

he will share freely with anyone when asked. 

Thank you, Oscie Whatley, 

for your time, and effort. 

Gerda Brooker and Juli Hyatt listing to 

Oscie Whatley’s reflections. 




A Presentation by Kath 

athy Guest 

Beyond Napkin Folding: 

Star 

tarting ting and Maintaining a Daylily Club 

by Paul Limmer, New York, 

and Dr. Joann Stewart, Georgia 

Kathy Guest is a member of BADS (the Buffalo Area 

Daylily Society). Her title wouldn’t lead you to believe 

that you were going to be given a fishing lesson, but 

her “modus operandi” advice was aimed toward reeling 

in fairly wary game: potential daylily club members, 

and making them happy about it! 

While some potential members would eagerly join a 

club, Kathy pointed out that, in most cases, potential 

members simply don’t realize the advantages of membership 

in a plant-specific group; so, it’s necessary to 

hook them before you can reel..................... 

Why A Daylily Club 

She outlined the club membership advantages, which 

Daylily clubs are flower clubs, and 

flower clubs should be fun and 

should not be taken so seriously that 

they become life-consuming. 

Kathy Guest 

can be pointed out to prospective members: (1) camaraderie 

with a common interest group, (2) tapping into 

the common pool of knowledge among members and 

increasing knowledge collectively, (3) increasing the 

quality of plant material in your area (something 

achieved better collectively than on your own), and (4) 

the simple “good green fun” of being with other plant 

people. 

Where to Start 

Her best advice about where to start was recognizing 

that you can do it. A single person may make the 

decisions, pick a date, enlist the aid of friends or members 

of other “green organizations,” contact the RVP 

and nearest clubs for support. She advised that simplicity 

is the key to obtaining newcomer interest, and 

that showing slides is preferable to holding cut scape 

exhibits in the early stages, because slides may be interwoven 

into almost any presentation. 

I have a Barn, Let’s Have a Show–Think GREEN 

Locations for slide presentations might be found 

through other “green organizations,” such as specific 

botanical clubs in the area, but any site with capacities 

for 30-60 might be considered. In order of preference 

were locations of other “green groups,” civic 

groups, and cooperative extension sites. Less desirable 

“Kathy held 

the audience 

in the palm 

of her hand 

without the 

aid of 

gorgeous 

slides of 

eyezones, 

edges, colors, 

forms, and 

incredible 

advances in 

daylilies.” 

but also possible for meetings were the sites such as 

zoos. Last, but not outside acceptability were schools 

and library facilities. 

Baiting the Hook 

Kathy’s advice about attracting visitors for the purpose 

of forming a club was not dissimilar to advice 

about catching fish. Baiting the hook is the place to 

start! 

Catchy but simple titles to presentations and confidence-inspiring 

information/advice messages are essential 

to bolstering enthusiasm. 

Ways to get the word out included using existing “ green 

groups” (garden clubs or other plant-specific groups) 

as information vehicles, possibly including mass mailings 

from their club membership lists, but also exploring 

using available media coverage. 

Aiming for a 2-week maximum advance publicity time 

frame for maximum exposure ensures “freshness” appeal 

to the prospective attendee. Press releases, flyers, 

and catalogs were all recommended attention grabbers. 

She recommended that the meetings have a small charge, 

to ensure that participants would feel they were to receive 

value for money and that they were not simply 

attending a free (and, therefore, worthless) presentation. 

Goin’ Fishin’ 

Before the first meeting, make sure you have these in place: 

♦Keeping money on hand to make change for bills and 

coins (for entrance fees) 

♦Items for door prizes and raffles, raffle tickets 

♦Handouts 

♦Designated “shmoozers” to welcome visitors in a friendly 

way and to smooth the awkwardness of “first visits.” 

(continued on next page) 



Beyond Napkin Folding with Kath 

athy Guest (continued) 

The presentation should be short but interesting. Food, handouts, 

refreshments, etc., should be made available, and the 

initial approach to forming a club should be made. 

Pedal to the Metal 

♦Staying in the public eye is essential for maintaining 

a new club and to ensure the success of an existing 

club. 

♦There should be a constant flow of information/stimulus: flower 

and garden shows, exhibits, talks–all coordinated with media 

attention and lots of publicity. 

♦Partnering with other “green” groups at their sales is 

one excellent way to achieve a larger labor pool for 

both groups, and an “interest spin-off bonus” for attendees. 

Tricks and Gimmicks–Mix it Up 

Once the club is formed, members should always feel they are 

receiving value for the expenditure of membership. Learning 

about conversions, color design, receiving flyers, newsletters, 

or ANYTHING about daylily culture and tips helps achieve 

this. Kathy recognized that daylily enthusiasts are gardeners, 

not just hem nuts, and she recommended alternating daylily 

presentations with other types of speakers. Photographic techniques, 

weather analysis, insect recognition and remedy were 

suggested topics of general interest to most gardeners. 

People–Recognizing Talent 

Realistically, only about one-third of members who join become 

active, productive members of a group (aka Walek’s 

Rule of Thirds). Getting that one-third to join IN becomes 

easier if they are not expected to volunteer (they won’t) but 

are asked for help with simple tasks and given specific duties. 

RECOGNITION of tasks done, and done well, is reinforced 

not just by verbal thank you in Kathy’s club, but it is 

also done by giving BADS Bux (a club-specific daylily currency). 

These Bux are issued as Thank You Daylily Dollars 

earned/given for services rendered to the club. 

While it’s always a nice thing to give recognition for things, 

this takes appreciation a step further. BADS Bux are 

awarded for: 

♦attendance at meetings. 

♦baking cookies for meetings. 

♦helping with sales, or any non-officer function 

which members perform. 

At plant sales and auctions, BADS members may use 

their collected Bux to defray the dollar amount of purchases. 

This is a Flower Club–And Flowers are Fun! 

Kathy ended her presentation with another food for 

thought tidbit. Daylily clubs are flower clubs, and 

flower clubs should be fun (and not taken so seriously 

that they become life-consuming). With that in mind, 

a newly formed club should not just be born, but it 

should live long and it should prosper. 

Kathy held the audience in the palm of her hand without 

the aid of gorgeous slides of eyezones, edges, colors, 

forms, and incredible advances in daylilies. 

A truly remarkable accomplishment. 


Bob Schw 

hwar 

arz z Presents 

Dancing on Air – Unusual Forms 

by Dr. Bill Powell, Wisconsin 

Notable in this presentation was the speaker’s sense 

of humor–a good laugh is good for the soul. Bob talked 

about how he’d purchased his house in 1971 and how 

he had taken his cow to town to trade for food, but 

how, along the way, he had met a large man who offered 

to trade him shiny black seeds for the cow...so he 

had taken them home and had planted them and how 

a bright garden full of blossoms had grown overnight! 

(A slide of his garden in full bloom and at its very best 

image emphasized Bob’s punch line.) Though I’ve been 

told that I don’t know Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk, 

I can now at least say that I know Bob and his version 

of the beanstalk tale. 

He illustrated the growth of his garden with slides, 

and he showed two special semi-dormants (a slide of 

Mimi and of himself illustrating the term “semi-dormant” 

in human beings!). 

Bob made the point that the term “spider” should be 

reserved for flowers that are spiders; that is, cultivars 

that have petal ratios of 4:1 or better, and that the 

general use of the word “spider” to characterize Unusual 

Forms is confusing and incorrect (like calling 

WEDDING BAND a double). He said that the word 

“exotic” is used by a lot of folks to describe “Unusual 

Forms,” and that this is perfectly permissible. 

Bob followed this with a good and informative presentation 

about properly measuring petals to determine 

whether or not a cultivar or seedling is sufficiently narrow 

to meet the 4:1 ratio for being classified as a spider 

variant or the 5:1 ratio for being a true spider. 

Relying upon slides of different cultivars, he amply illustrated 

the various Unusual forms that daylilies can take 

such as Spatulate, Cascade, and Crispate–pinched, twisted, 


Bob Schwarz “danced on air” for us with 

unusual daylily forms. 



Region 2 Symposium 2000 

INTERVIEW WITH DAVID VID AND MORT 

A Panel by Sharon Discussion: 

Fitzpatrick 

The Histor 

ory of the Daylily 

Panel Members: 

Elizabeth Salter 

er, , Jeff f Salter 

er, , David Kirchhoff, 

f, 

Steve e Moldovan, and Oscie Whatley 

Moderat 

ator 

or: : Curt t Hanson 

by Don Jerabek 

Who knows what to expect when five prominent hybridizers 

share the stage and are given the chance to 

answer questions on topics from The value of hybridizing 

with species to declaring the most important daylilies 

of all time. 

The questions to the panels ranged from the concrete 

to the most esoteric. The answers ranged from those 

that were short and direct to those that were long, complicated, 

and conceptual. Curt Hanson officiated as the 

moderator, sharing questions that had been collected 

from the audience. The panelists were hybridizers 

Steven Moldovan, David Kirchhoff, Oscie Whatley, Jeff 

Salter, and Elizabeth Salter. (All comments below are 

not quotes, but are paraphrases by the author of this 

article. I apologize for any misunderstandings.) 

CH (Curt Hanson): 

What affect did Bill Munson have on the development 

of the modern daylily and/or, what did 

you learn from him 

SM (Steve Moldovan): 

I learned from Bill to take chances, he frequently 

From left to right: 

Curt Hanson, Elizabeth Salter, Steve Moldovan, 

Oscie Whatley, David Kirchhoff, and Jeff Salter. 

crossed tender daylilies to hardy daylilies and he tested 

his daylilies in the north and in the south. He was 

willing to take chances, yet, at the same time he was 

dedicated to developing his own distinctive line. 

DK (David Kirchhoff): 

Bill studied the flowers and the plant; the plant habits 

were a major consideration. He was never in a hurry 

to sell the next plant in order to make the “next nickel.” 

JS (Jeff Salter): 

Bill Munson’s biggest contribution was the “plant” more 

so than the flower, and the quality of the plant habits 

was his primary concern. Bill had a definite vision of 

what he wanted to hybridize, and he was not influenced 

by anyone. 

OW (Oscie Whatley): 

I was most impressed by Bill’s willingness to explore 

uncharted territory with the daylily. 

ES (Elizabeth Salter): 

As Bill was my uncle, I was able to view his work from 

a unique position. He had a broad and diverse breeding 

program in terms of color, flower size, and bloom 

style; he was concerned about the plant habits and not 

just the flower. 

CH: What cultivars would you recognize as the 

biggest breakthroughs, most important cultivars 

or your personal favorites 

ES: I think that memorable cultivars have been SATIN 

GLASS, SLEEPING BEAUTY and ORVILLE FAY. 

ENCHANTED SPELL has had the strongest early impact 

on my hybridizing efforts. 

SM: I think RUFFLED DUDE, which begot BETTY 

WARREN WOODS. Also, IDA’S MAGIC and Jeff 

Salter’s MY DARLING CLEMENTINE. 

OW: PERENNIAL PLEASURE by Doctor Branch. It 

was so good I used it as a basis for all of my yellows. 

DK: I think that PAPER BUTTERFLY, CHICAGO 

TWO BITS and MacMillan’s diploid work, which 

showed use what daylilies could become. 

JS: Many of Bill Munson’s daylilies including 

RUFFLED DUDE and BETTY WARREN WOODS; 

also, BITTERSWEET HOLIDAY, which is very dormant, 

and NILE FLOWER, which had very clear colors. 

CH: Specific to the continued advancement of tetraploid 

daylilies, do you think that it is more important 

to hybridize with converted material or 

continued next page 



A Panel Discussion: The Histor 

ory of the Daylily 

(cont.) 

Region 2 Symposium 2000 

with existing tetraploid daylilies 

OW: I think that using newly converted daylilies will 

speed breakthroughs at the tetraploid level. Also, I believe 

that there is a recent university study that indicates 

that the majority of breakthroughs come from diploids. 

DK: “It’s all in the hands of the Artist.” I’d recommend 

using tetraploids. 

JS: I agreed with David, although one exception would 

be to convert Elizabeth Salter’s eyed diploids. We can’t 

begin to imagine the future of advancements in tetraploid 

daylilies. 

ES: I agree. That is why I am trying to get my eye 

patterns in tetraploid daylilies. 

SM: I would convert a few diploids if I had time. There 

is a lot of work yet to do with the existing tetraploid 

gene pool. 

CH: What species daylilies would be good to use 

in a hybridizing program 

SM: Perhaps citrina and altissima. I’ve started using 

some species. 

OW: There is the recent cross of NEW IN TOWN, 

which is a cross of H. Citrina x SILOAM RALPH 

HENRY. I’ve converted some species, and I am using 

them. 

CH: The daylily used to be a carefree grower. 

Should hybridizers start to concentrate more on 

the plant habits and less on the flower 

ES: No, the hybridizer needs to do both. “It’s the whole 

package.” One can not concentrate on one, without 

the other. 

SM: Daylilies are intended to be garden plants, therefore 

they need to be grown in the garden and selected 

in the garden. 

DK: Historically, hybridizers focused on the flower and 

allowed the selection to based 90% on the beauty of 

the flower. 

JS: I’m concerned about hybridizers who use herbicides. 

We need to avoid growing and selecting daylilies 

in artificial environments. Not many daylilies grow 

across a wide area of the country, and maybe we just 

need to understand that some daylilies are regional 

plants. 

CH: There were a lot of controversies in the early 

days of converting daylilies. Was it worth it 

ES: “I’ll never forget that a man turned to my Uncle at 

the Chicago Daylily Convention and said that 

tetraploids were from the snake pits of hell.” Yes, the 

daylily has come a long way since the 1960’s. 

SM: The diversity and the plant habits of tetraploid 

daylilies have surpassed our every expectation. The 

present day tetraploids have both more flowers and 

more blooms than older daylilies. 

OW: The tetraploid colors are much, much richer. 

DK: We should be thankful for the continual evolution 

of the daylily. The advancements have been 

greater than we could have imagined just five years 

ago. 

JS: Diploids are predictable, while tetraploids are 

much more unpredictable. It has been worth it! 

Dan Hansen Presents 

The Legacy of Ladybug Beautiful and the Dynamic New 

Tetraploid Program of Dan Hansen 

Dan Hansen opened the Region 2 Symposium 2000 

with a moving tribute to his mother, Ra Hansen. He 

told of his memories of his mother and of her 

passion for daylilies, and how he was her special friend 

and partner in daylilies, as well as free labor provider. 

After she was gone, he realized how important it is to 

Dan Hansen 

of Ladybug 

Daylilies 

preserving 

the daylily 

legacy of his 

mother Ra 

Hansen and 

pursuing his 

own hybridizing 

goals. 

by Dave Winter, Ohio 





The Legacy of Ladybug Beautiful and the Dynamic New 

Tetraploid Program of Dan Hansen (continued from page 25) 

have a daylily partner. Dan outlined her many accomplishments 

in the world of daylilies, particularly winning 

the Bertrand Farr Hybridizing Award in 1999. 

Interestingly enough, many of Ra’s award-winning daylilies 

did not perform particularly well in her 

Florida garden. They were introduced because they had 

done so well in gardens of her friends in the North and 

who had encouraged her to introduce them. Dan explained 

that he was going to continue to introduce the 

daylilies that Ra had selected and named, and that he 

would continue to select and introduce the best of her 

remaining seedlings. However, he is not going to continue 

her breeding program. 

We were treated to slides of some of her most successful 

past introductions and possible future introductions, 

including some that–unfortunately–may have been lost 

when her garden was moved. 

The second half of Dan’s talk was devoted to his own 

tetraploid breeding program. One of his primary areas 

of interest is “daylilies with contrasting borders 

but no eyes.” He showed slides of his 1999 introduction 

ROSES IN SNOW, which was named by Ra, and 

also of seedlings with darker petals and lighter edges 

having ROSES IN SNOW as a parent. It is a sunfast red 

with an ivory border that passes on lighter borders 

readily. Dan’s 2000 introduction PINK INTRIGUE and 2001 

introduction LONELY HEART are at the center of his hybridizing 

for seedlings with lighter petals and darker edges. 

Most instructive were slides of his recent and future introductions 

surrounded by those of their first and second generation 

offspring, revealing what traits were passed on and highlighted 

in breeding. Dan emphasized that tetraploids skip traits some 

generations and that to bring out recessive traits, a hybridizer 

has to recross the best seedlings. He also showed slides of daylilies 

with blue eyes and patterned eyes out of a tetraploid conversion 

of his mother’s introduction BEN LEE (1994). Other 

breeding lines that Dan displayed with slides were those for 

narrow petals, teeth, whites, and edges and eyes. 

Many of them drew oohs and ahs from the audience. By the 

end of the talk it was obvious that Ra has left a tremendous 

living legacy, both in her own introductions and in Dan and 

his hybridizing program. 

A Second Presentation by Dr. . Kevin Vaughn 

Genetics, Intuition, and Safe Sex 

by Dr. Bill Powell, Wisconsin 

When I first read the title of this presentation, I expected 

that Dr. Vaughn would illuminate his subject 

matter with something approximating a full frontal 

centerfold of a daylily (complete with airbrushing). But, 

before we got to the imagined visual delights, he prefaced 

his remarks by recounting his move to the Mississippi 

delta country and thanked Midwesterners for 

sending their topsoil south to the folks down there (see, 

in a sense, he’s really hybridizing and growing in Regions 

1 and 2 after all!). 

After further remarks had whetted our appetite, and 

with clammy hands and beads of anticipatory perspiration 

gracing our upper lips, the lights were dimmed 

and the slide show began. What followed were slides 

of his work hybridizing small flowered cultivars–and 


You bet we had fun at the Region 2 Symposium 2000 in 

Cleveland! (Sharon, Dawn, Hiram, Gene, Gail) 

Dr. Vaughn reviewing the basics of Mendel’s law. 




Genetics, Intuition, and Safe Sex (continued) 

quite interesting work it is. Toward the end of the slide 

presentation he spoke briefly of his work with goose 

grass and why it became resistant to some herbicides 

and how this led him to try (successfully) treating 

sprouted daylily seeds with Surflan and Treflan to induce 

tetraploidy. Unfortunately, that segment of the 

presentation was not long enough to have a learned 

discussion about how to keep treated seedlings from 

dying from rot or from their failure to have 

re-initiated root growth. Ah well, another time and 

another place! 

Following his slides, he reviewed the basics of Mendelian 

inheritance and drew the requisite boxes to illustrate 

both tetraploids and diploids for representing the 

distribution of dominant and recessive genes for a given 

trait. That was well presented and was more understandable 

than it commonly is. He suggested that cultivars 

with melon coloration are good to use with other 

cultivars when you want to retain their color (Brother 

Charles is probably saying ‘Hallelujah’ to that!). 

More esoteric discussion of exceptions to Mendel’s 

rules–like genes that can get turned on and off and 

how that affects traits–couldn’t be explored due to time 

constraints (hey, what all can you do in 1/2 hour). 

Dr. Vaughn also talked about the frustration of having 

homely little critters (seedlings) grow from the most 

hopeful and colorful of dreams and, I think, most of 

the audience commiserated with that. 

All in all, he was an interesting and entertaining presenter. 

And now, I’m intuitively relieved that I didn’t 

have to type this summary of his remarks about ‘safe 

sex’ wearing latex gloves. 

John Rice Presents 

People in Glass Houses 

by Ric Adams, Michigan 

John Rice has had a long, interesting journey lead him 

to his current home in Paris, Kentucky. He has been 

growing daylilies for 25 years, and he has worked as 

an estate gardener for many of those same years. For 

the last 15 years, he has managed landscape operations 

for some of the largest horse farms in Kentucky. 

His experience with plants and the drive to build a 

major hybridizing program led him to develop a daylily-friendly 

greenhouse operation. 

One of the biggest advantages of operating a greenhouse 

here in the North is extending the growing season. 

John explained that by growing indoors, he could 

bloom seedlings in 1 year instead of the normal 3 in 

our climate. This benefit has helped keep his hybridizing 

goals on track and closer to the cutting edge. 

John has seen better increase in his plants–especially 

the evergreens–by growing them indoors. He has been 

able to hybridize during cooler weather, thus getting 

much better seed set, especially with his tetraploids. 

The bonus of working with hems during the, often, dismal 

late winter months is a wonderful antidote for 

those “winter blahs.” 

John holds the disadvantages to be mostly financial. 

Cost of construction (at near $10.00 per square foot) 

and the ever-present utility bills for fuel, electric, and 

water are serious feasibility questions. Vacations are 

often waylaid, as one must tend the greenhouse daily. 


The large group looking, listening, 

and taking notes. 

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That type of commitment, combined with outdoor gardening, 

means there is often no break in seasonal activities. 

If your choice is to put up a structure–be it metal, wood, 

glass, poly, or any combination–site choice is most 

important.You want to maximize your sun exposure in 

the winter while, hopefully, finding some shade for the 

hot summers. Avoiding windy sites, and finding a level 

area with good interior and exterior drainage, all figure 

into the ideal location.The depths of your pocketbook may 

define your structure materials, but those who are handy 

and creative can find something to fit their budget. 

Looking past the external covering, popular options 

often include a ventilation system, a heat system, a 

supplemental lighting system, supplemental CO 2 

, and 

a backup power supply. Other considerations will include 

a watering system, a pest control procedure, and 

a soil-potting work area. 

After putting together all the puzzle pieces, John 

showed us slides of his greenhouse full of daylily bloom. 

He showed us that, with proper planning and hard 

work, anyone could reach that Pot of Gold defined by 

off-season blooms here in the North. 


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George Doorakian Presents 

Northern Grown wn Daylilies 

and Growing Daylilies Hydroponically 

by Sharon Fitzpatrick, Ohio 

George Doorakian referred to himself as "the new kid on the 

block" in the world of daylilies. For the past thirty-some years, 

he had spent his life as an organic chemist and noted rosarian. 

Finding that many cultivars of roses had become annuals 

in his area, he hybridized roses in shades of pink, lavender 

and red that could withstand -30 F degree temperatures. 

Faced with a major health problem, he was informed that 

he needed heart bypass surgery. His cardiologist told him it 

was time to retire and slow down. Mr. Doorakian survived 

his bypass surgery, donated his rose collection to The New 

England Rose Society and increased his daylily collection. 

He is still evaluating about 200 rose seedlings, though. 

He suggested treating seeds with dilute hydrogen peroxide 

solution (1 cc of 30% hydrogen peroxide/1 liter of distilled 

water) for 12 hrs followed by planting the seed in Oasis 

wedges and watering them when needed with the same peroxide 

solution to improve the rate and percent of germination 

as well as greatly reducing damping off. This process of 

seed treatment had always worked for him with roses, so, 

why not try it on daylilies 

Under greenhouse conditions, his daylily seeds are planted 

in horticulture Oasis wedges and grown in covered trays kept 

at 75 F degrees. After about 6 weeks, daylily seedlings with 

their Oasis wedges are planted into a suitable planting mix 

in a 4" square pot with the minimum air temperature being 

kept at least 70 F. In mid-May, the large daylily seedlings 

are transplanted to an outside raised bed with a manifold 

watering/fertilizing system. Seven to 9 months after seed 

germination the first bloom will be seen. If the bloom is 

equivalent to the state-of-the-art, it will remain outdoors 

for the winter. If the bloom is a Eureka! with a new color or 

pattern, it will be repotted (10" pot) and brought back into 

the greenhouse for more scrutiny for the winter. 

When MY DARLING CLEMENTINE entered his life, he 

George Doorakian, the “new kid 

on the daylily block”



knew this must be the perfect daylily. The plant had a beautiful 

flower, was well-branched, and had a strong reblooming 

tendency. The only problem was that it was not hardy in his 

area. This plant was the beginning of The Doorakian Dance. 

He showed a slide of a pyramid of dancers which depicted 

hybridizers who came before him. He stated that he and the 

Almighty were in there somewhere, trying to create distinctive 

cold-tolerant daylilies. 

Mr. Doorakian selected a 1994 seedling with good foliage, an 

unusual eye pattern, 4-way branching, and 25 buds as a bridge 

plant. Many of his friends told him the seedling was small 

and relatively ugly. Working with this seedling produced a 

diploid daylily with a unique pattern including a green eye 

extending over 50% onto the petal that he registered as MALA- 

CHITE PRISM (MP) and will introduce in 2001. Before releasing 

MALACHITE PRISM or its tetraploid conversion to 

the public, he had to see what it's children looked like. The 

MALACHITE PRISM offspring, all possessed the same unique 

large green throat pattern. The kids from the tet form of 

MP will bloom during late summer of 2000. 

Mr. Doorakian has come up with another seedling, 

STARGATE, with a radiating green throat which throws 

polytepalous blooms 75% of the time. Distinctive 1999 JC 

Award winners, DIVINE INSPIRATION (an 8" tet pink spider 

variant) and NANCY BRITZ (a 5.5" diploid cream with 

a radiating green throat) were also illustrated. He displayed 

future intros of seedlings–QUEEN KATHLEEN, 9" diploid 

creamy white spider variant with a large radiating green 

throat, CONNIE ABEL, a 6" tet orange sherbet self with a 

very distinctive ruffled, knobby edge which is the result of 

the cross of PARTY QUEEN X MARY COLLIER FISHER 

(YUMA x ANGEL'S SMILE). He attributes his edged seedlings 

to MARY COLLIER FISHER. Spiders and spider variants 

of purple and red have been produced from QUEEN 

KATHLEEN. His future introduction, 5" tet PHIL REILLY, 

a pink stippled over purple with a ruffled gold edge and green 

throat (not out of IDA'S MAGIC or related cultivars) is hardy 

Sharon 

Fitzpatrick 

of Canal 

Winchester, 

Ohio, 

taping 

presentations 

at the 


Symposium 

2000 in 

Cleveland. 

(with 

permission, 

of course.) 

"We are in the new Millennium. Old rules do 

not apply. We are what we think we are. Reinvent 

yourself. Learn to dance. Embrace new heights. 

Explore new territory. Mentor someone young or 

old. Do what you love." (George Doorakian) 

to Zone 5 and gives hardy gold edge offspring. One of his hardy 

yellow seedlings with large ruffling from SANDRA ELIZA- 

BETH and MY DARLING CLEMENTINE blooms from July 

to frost and is at clump strength after three winters. 

Another interesting slide was of an eyed cultivar with gold 

pixy dust stippling in the eyezone. Gold stippling resulted 

from his treating daylily seeds with gamma-radiation. 

Faced with the problem of how to increase new cultivars for 

marketing, Mr. Doorakian began to explore the possibilities 

of hydroponics. He showed slides of "what looked to me like" 

sections of white 6" x 5' plastic water pipes/tubes with watertight 

caps on each end. Water intake and outlet openings 

were at the top and bottom of each endpipe. Pipes were 

mounted three across on a saw horse type bench. Holes (3") 

were drilled at equal intervals on the top face of each pipe. 

The drain section of each 5' pipe was placed on the top of a 

26 gallon holding tank which contained a nutrient/water 

solution. Plastic tubing (3/8") was inserted into the nutrient 

tank and run through the 5' pipe system. A small hole in 

the tubing is located at each plant opening supplying continual 

misting of nutrients to plants via recirculating pump 

in the holding tank. An aquarium aerator was inserted in 

the tank to help keep the water solution constantly oxygenated–a 

must for hydroponics with daylilies to be successful. 

Six week old Oasis cube seedlings were placed into 3" diameter 

plastic mesh holding cups which then were placed into 

the 3" holes along the 5' pipe sections. By modifying the 

nutrient solution from lawn fertilizer, to balanced fertilizer, 

and finally to a high phosphorus fertilizer, excellent plant 

development was observed as well as bloom in the 7-9 month 

period keeping the oxygenated nutrient solution at 75 F at 

all times with air temperature fluctuating between 45-80 F. 

After seeing the excellent growth results from these Oasis 

cube seedlings, he knew he was on to something. 

Next, early-stage tissue-cultured (TC) plants, provided by 

Jamie Gossard (of Superior Laboratories), were placed in 

the mesh containers, and inserted into the 3" openings of 

the tubes. After 6 weeks of growing these tissue cultures 

hydroponically, plants with comparatively massive root systems 

were produced which were now environmentally 

friendly for planting in soilless mix and for growing under 

greenhouse conditions, with no plant loss resulting. Without 

the hydroponic treatment, greater than a 50% loss of 

early-stage TC plants would have resulted upon planting 

directly in a soilless mix. 

When growing with hydroponics, one has to monitor pH, type 

of nutrients and their concentration, and temperature to 

achieve bloom in 7-9 months. Mr. Doorakian called upon 

his organic chemistry background to figure the exact measurements 

of pH (6.8) and parts per million (200) of nutrient 

to water to assure adequate TC growth. Future experiments 




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Career Decisions (continued) 

In May 1993, Karol left Dayton-Hudson to work with 

several nonprofit organizations and to create new 

gardens on the lot next door. She would create a 

series of rooms with all of the perennials, hardy in 

Minnesota, displayed and with a major emphasis 

on daylilies. She sought to create a refuge that informed 

and inspired the visitors. 

She attended her first National (Orlando) that year 

and quickly had a wish list of 1000 cultivars. (Does 

this sound familiar to any of you) Over the next four 

years as Dick built walls and pathways, Karol planted 

over 1000 daylily cultivars, 325 varieties of hostas and 

over 600 other perennials. 

The slides Karol showed of her gardens documented a 

lushly growing, well designed perennial garden in 


of land that will not only accommodate a new greenhouse 

for Karol, but also the business their son wants 

to start. The property has a large house and buildings, 

which was the site of a stagecoach station in the 

1860’s. It has been restored, and has Karol and Dick 

thinking of several possibilities. It appears her third 

career will be at least as busy as those that preceded 

it. And a large piece of land, complete with a gravel pit 

is for sale across the street...of the new property! 

Look for these two additional Region 2 Symposium 

presentations in the next issue: 

Elizabeth Salter’s From Wimberlyway to Rollingwood 

and 

John Rice’s Thoroughbred Daylilies 

A discussion with Dan Trimmer got 

her started, and during the first year she 

produced 7000 seeds. She recounted her 

various solutions to finding enough 

space to plant them all, including showing 

a slide of my favorite, “The cutting 

the driveway in half trick.” 

which daylilies had pride of place. Dick’s walls and the 

other structures, as well as the trees, provided a tremendous 

backdrop for Karol’s plantings. As these gardens 

were finished, as Karol puts it, “as much as a 

garden is ever finished,” it was time for a third 

career decision. 

Karol decided she was interested in hybridizing lavenders 

and purples and eyes. She was also interested in naming 

daylilies to reflect her religious beliefs. A discussion with 

Dan Trimmer got her started, and during the first year she 

produced 7000 seeds. She recounted her various solutions 

to finding enough space to plant them all, including my favorite, 

The cutting the driveway in half trick. 

While attending MWS in 1997, Karol met Larry Grace. 

Larry told Karol that if she was really serious about hybridizing, 

she could join him in his new 

greenhouse venture where he would teach her. Despite 

a long list of “why nots,” Karol decided this was the chance 

of a lifetime. In the fall of 1997 she took a number of her 

plants to Larry’s greenhouse and returned the next 

spring to hybridize with them, spending several weeks 

away from home. A year ago she saw the first blooms of 

those crosses and by the time you read this, she will have 

seen her second crop bloom. 

Now, Dick and Karol have decided that it’s time for 

her to return to Minnesota. They have located a piece 

Region 2 Symposium 2000: An unqualified Success! 

Left to right: Registrar Juli Hyatt, Joan Kepf, Chair Curt 

Hanson, RVP Mary Milanowski 

A happy crew from Columbus, Ohio: Gail Johannes, 

Becky McMurry, Jim McMurry, Bill Johannes. 



American Hemerocallis Society Region 2 Summer Meeting 

Hosted by the Chicagoland Daylily Society 

Chicago, Illinois 

Best West 

estern ern Inn of Burr Ridge 

Headquarter 

ers 

July 21, , 22, 23 in the Year 2000 

Your Host Club is looking forward to welcoming 

Region 2 members this summer. 

Frida 

riday, , July 21, , 2000 

9:00 am Registration 

Bargain Plant Table Sales 

Open Garden List 

12:30 pm Exhibition Refresher Clinic 

1:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinics I 

1:00 pm Exhibition Judges Clinic II 

3:00 pm Garden Judges Workshop I 

5:00 pm Youth Meeting 

5:30 pm Reception (cash bar) 

6:00 pm Hybridizers Slide Show 

6:30 pm Dinner (included in registration fee) 

7:30 pm Speaker: Leo Sharp 

Daylily Plant Auction following speaker 

Saturday, , July 22, 2000 

7:00-7:30 am Registration 

Breakfast on your own 

7:30-7:45 am Buses leave for gardens 

Garden Judges Workshop II en route 

12:00 noon Lunch en route (included in registration fee) 

5:00 pm Return to hotel 

6:00 pm Reception (cash bar) 

7:00 pm Banquet (included in registration fee) 

Region 2 Business Meeting with 

Guest Speaker Robert Ellison 

Sunday, , July 23, 2000 

7:30 am Buses leave for gardens 

Breakfast at The Fields 

(included in registration fee) 

1:30 pm Return to Hotel 

Highlights 

& Guest speaker Robert Ellison 

& Bargain plant table 

& Seven gardens on tour 

& Exh. judges clinics, garden judge workshops 

& Friday evening slide show & plant auction 

Registration Information 

$ 95.00 ..... per person with June 23 postmark 

$110.00 .... per person after June 23 postmark 

$ 65.00 .......................... Youth Registration 

Note: 

e: On Sunday, July 23, we will be visiting The Fields 

where we will have breakfast and tour the garden; then, 

we will go to Coburg Planting Fields in Valparaiso, Indiana. 

For those of you who wish to drive on your own to get a 

head start for home after the convention, please deduct $5 

per person from your registration. Maps will be provided. 

Checks payable able to the Chicagoland DS 

Mail to: Registrar William Sevetson 

5217 Lawn Avenue 

Western Springs, IL 60558 

For additional information contact: 

Pat Bell, Chairman 

39 W 582 Deer Run Drive 

St. Charles, IL 60175 

Tel: 630-377-3705 

Meeting/Lodging 

Best West 

estern ern Inn of Burr Ridge 

300 S. Frontage Road, Burr Ridge, Illinois 

Tel: 630-325-2900 

Fax: 630-325-8907 

Contact Hotel directly for special AHS Chicagoland Daylily 

Society rate. $73 single or double plus tax if reserved by 

July 1, 2000. Please request 1st or 2nd floor accommodations. 



Robert Ellison 

Bob grew up on farm in 

Caledonia, a few miles 

northeast of Rockford, Illinois, 

and he with his 

wife, Patricia, have lived 

in Rockford for the last 

21 years. His greenhouse 

and garden are on almost 

an acre of land in 

southwestern Rockford. 

He grew up working 

with plants, and he 

continues to enjoy it to 

this day. His hobbies 

include fishing and collecting 

toy tractors. 

Meet our Region 2 Summer Meeting 2000 

Keynote Speaker: Bob Ellison 

He began hybridizing “for fun" in 1990 and turned 

more serious with the introduction* of ANGELA 

RENAE (93), a red tetraploid. To date, he has registered/introduced 

some 50 diploids and tetraploids. He 

grows about 2000 seedlings each year, and he believes 

that he doesn't have to grow excessive numbers of 

seedlings in order to get good results if he selects the 

by Bill Sevetson 

right parents. Many of his daylily names start with 

the word "Prairie" because of his love of the Midwest 

and, primarily, for north central Illinois prairies. 

Bob's goals in hybridizing include developing cultivars 

that can adapt to all climactic conditions with 

emphasis on northern hardiness. He also looks for 

heavy substance, good bud count, and lots of ruffles. 

He believes that his best introduction to date is 

MICHELLE FAGER (97), named after his assistant 

in hybridizing and in the greenhouse. 

Bob's best tetraploid to date is RED LINE FEVER 

(98), a 30" M 5 3/4" dor very ruffled, bright, fire 

engine red with a green throat that has 4-way 

branching with a bud count of 25. 

Two of his Year 2000 registrations, SALMON 

PIECRUST, a diploid with a ruffled edge that is piled 

high like the crust of a pie, and AIM FOR HEAVEN, 

a pink tetraploid with a rose-red eye and a double 

rose-red and gold edge, have already sold out. 

Bob’s well-known Bloomfest (see Ellison’s advertisement 

on page 15 for details) runs from the second 

through the fourth weeks of July each summer. 

To clip out and fill in registration form. 

2000 Region 2 Summer Meeting and Garden Tour Registration 

Name: 

Additional Name(s): 

Address: 

City: 

State: Zip: Phone: ( ) 

Number of persons attending Adult: Youth: Amount enclosed: $ 

' 

Taking bus on Sunday, July 23: Yes No 

' 

Friday Dinner Entrees: Sliced Pork Tenderloin or Broiled Catfish Saturday Dinner Entrees: Prime Rib or Orange Roughy 

Name & Entree: 


Note: 

If you require special dietary meals, please notify the Registrar. 



Please write number of persons 

attending Judges Clinics and Garden Judges Workshops in appropriate box below: 

'Exhibition ' Exhibition 'Exhibition 'Garden Judges 'Garden Judges 

Clinic I 

Clinic II 

Refresher Clinic Workshop I 

Workshop II 



Lombard’s 

Red Tet t Specialist – 30 year 

ears 

William L. Bell 

22 W 366 Fir 

irst st Street 

Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 

630-942-9827 

(1/2 mile north of St. Charles Road, or 1/2 miles south of 

North Avenue; one block east of Glen Ellyn Main Street.) 

RED THUNDER 

BARON LOMBARD 

AUNTIE EUGIE 

ALCESTE 

Coming: 

CISSIE LOMBARD 

Garden open during Region 2 Summer Meeting 

(not on the bus tour) 

July 21-23, 2000 

I believe this is the most advanced, 

recessive line of Red Tets in the nation. 

Visit Lombard’s and see for yourself! 

More introductions to come. 

2/00 



SLIDE 

REQUES 

EQUEST 

FOR THE YEAR 2000 AHS 

REGION 2 SUMMER MEETING 

HYBRIDIZERS 

YBRIDIZERS: 

Please share slides of your new and 

future introductions. 

PLEASE 

DON 

ONATE 

TE 

AUCTION 

PLANT 

LANTS 

For the AHS Region 2 

Summer Meeting 

July 21-23 in the Year 2000 

Proceeds Support the Region 2 

Great Lakes Daylily Newsletter 

The slides will be shown before dinner Friday night, and 

we are asking that you send no more than 10 slides to 

ensure everyone gets a share of viewing time. 

Please send slides no later than July 14 so they may be 

included on a printed list. 

Mail to: 

Bill Potter 

208 South LaSalle, Suite 1681 

Chicago, IL 60604 

Tel: 312-372-2622 

(Graphic contributed by: Jill Yost, Pataskala, Ohio.) 

List cultivar names and hybridizer 

Donor 

Name :____________________________ 

Address:__________________________ 

_________________________________ 

Hybridizer Cultivars 

_________________________________ 

_________________________________ 

_________________________________ 

_________________________________ 

_________________________________ 

Please send this form for compilation by July 1, 2000, to 

the 2000 Region 2 Summer Meeting Plant Auction Chair: 

Dolores Knowles 

320 St. Charles Road 

Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 

Telephone: 630-469-3922 Fax: 630-469-2280 

email:bruceknowles@compuserve.com 

Region 2 RPD Ed Myers and Secretary Virginia 

Myers at Symposium 

Two (2) preferred methods of plant donation: 

1. Send a postcard listing plants to be donated and 

shipped later 

along with hybridizer's name and 

description, etc. by July 1, 2000. 

2. Bring labeled plants to hotel registration table with 

cards containing hybridizer's name, description, etc. 



Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens 

Once Upon A Millennium–Chicago 2000 

Welcome 

by Pat Bell 

The members of the Chicagoland Daylily Society are looking forward to hosting the AHS Region 2 Meeting in 

Chicago during the first July of this new millennium. We are sure you will enjoy visiting the seven area 

gardens we have selected for your bus tour. These gardens have great collections of newer daylily cultivars as 

well as some of the older “must have" favorites. Some of these gardens are landscaped home gardens and some 

are also commercial gardens. Along with these beautiful gardens you will have an opportunity to learn from our 

banquet speaker, hybridizer Robert Ellison of Rockford, IL. We feel that, as our logo says, Once Upon a 

Millennium, Chicago 2000 has more than you dreamed for daylily growers. Last, but not least, you can enjoy 

the companionship of regional and out-of-region daylily friends. 

Note: Except as noted, all photo credits for the Region 2 Summer Meeting tour gardens go to Rosemary Balazs of Chicagoland 

. 

The Fields 2000 Display Garden 

Greg Neuman and Diane Hucek 

1850 Caton Farm Road, near Weber 

Joliet, Illinois 

Greg Neuman and Diane Hucek, owners of The Fields 

on Caton Farm Road, have carved out a 5-acre garden 

from their 200 acre working nursery. This commercial 

garden hosts approximately 350 varieties of daylilies, 

and it is designated an official AHS Display Garden. 

Large, flowering beds are set in and among exquisite 

landscaping features. They include a gazebo, a large 

pergola, lakes and fountains. Brick pathways through 

several areas of the garden increase accessibility, and 

golf carts are also available for visitors. 

During the peak bloom season and flower show (approximately 

June 20 to August 2), The Fields display 

cut daylilies beautifully in glass vases in their showroom. 

Other periods of interest are the spring daffodil 

show followed by Siberian iris and peony displays. 

The Fields’ garden is open Mondays through Saturdays 

from 10 am to 4 pm during the peak bloom. The 

Fields welcome visitors, and they can easily accommodate 

large groups of daylily enthusiasts. 

Coburg Planting Fields 

Phillip Brockington and Howard H. Reeve, Jr. 

573 East 600 North 

Valparaiso, Indiana 46383-9727 

The Fields on Caton Farm 

(Photo by Beverly Smutnik) 

Coburg Planting Fields is a commercial nursery, national 

display garden, and home of Phil Brockington 

and Howard Reeve. Situated on a ten-acre, landscaped 

site outside Valparaiso, Indiana, the garden has been 

developing over 25 years. Howard and Phil grow approximately 

one thousand daylily cultivars and a sizable 

collection of hostas along with other perennials, 

trees, and shrubs. Many of the daylilies are in gardens, 

but most are in four fields totaling more than an acre. 



Coburg Planting Fields (continued) 

Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens (continued) 

Of special interest is the display garden housing about 

150 spiders, variants, and exotics which Howard uses 

for hybridizing. For the Region 2 Summer Meeting, a 

collection of Curt Hanson’s newer daylilies has been 

incorporated into the landscape. 

Other features of interest are a field of daylily species, 

a small pond with a waterfall and frog collection, some 

sculptures, and a setting with old farm buildings. With 

luck, a G-gauge model railroad will be running through 

one of the gardens during our tour. 

Phil Brockington and Howard Reeve 

The Sevetson Daylily Garden 

Diane and Bill Sevetson 

5217 Lawn Ave, Western Springs, IL 60558 

Diane and Bill have lived and gardened in Western 

Springs for some thirty-four years. They both grew up 

in nearby communities and also share a major interest 

in flowers. Before they caught the daylily bug, they 

had as many as 125 varieties of perennials in their 

garden. Bill joined the Suburban Men’s Garden Club 

in 1977 and was their president in 1981. 

Their interest in daylilies began in about 1987, and 

they joined the Chicagoland DS and the AHS in 1988. 

Bill served as president of Chicagoland for three years 

from 1992 through 1994. They have a typical suburban 

lot, which provides space for over 600 daylily varieties. 

They like all types of daylilies, especially largeflowered 

ones and doubles, to which Diane has taken 

a particular interest. Diane and Bill do not hybridize 

Diane and Bill in their Sevetson Daylily Garden 

because of space limitations for seedlings. They simply 

enjoy collecting. The Sevetson Garden has been 

an AHS Display Garden since 1997. 

During the last few years, Bill has upgraded their collection 

considerably. Although their collection represents 

cultivars from many hybridizers, their largest 

collections are those of Pat Stamile, Curt Hanson, 

Oliver Billingslea, and Doc Branch. Dr. Branch believes 

they have the biggest collection of his cultivars in the 

country, including all of his “Smuggler” series registrations 

to date. They have guest plants from Bob 

Ellison, Leo Sharp, Ottis Houston, Oliver Billingslea, 

and Don Albers. Bill Potter and Bill Vaughn have also 

provided guest plants of other hybridizers. 

The Pat and Chuck Bell Garden 

Pat and Chuck Bell 

39 W 582 Deer Run Drive, St. Charles, IL 60175 

The two-acre country garden of Chuck and Pat Bell 

incorporates a wide variety of perennials for both sun 

and shade. Daylilies are a prominent feature in the 

sunny borders, but perennials, ornamental grasses and 

shrubs are used to create interesting views throughout 

the year. 

Pat, an avid plant collector, has designed and planted 

areas to incorporate different textures and colors to 

enhance the viewing of their 400-plus daylilies. In the 

shady part of the garden, numerous varieties of hosta, 

ferns, and other shade-loving perennials are featured. 



Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens 

(continued from page 33 ) 

The Pat and Chuck Bell Garden (continued) 

The large variety of plants ensure that visitors to the 

garden will find a different emphasis during the seasons’ 

changes. One hundred year old Bur Oaks provide 

a cool retreat area for resting and for enjoying the 

changing views as the months progress from spring to 

fall. 

This garden also contains the large number of Year 

2000 Region 2 Englerth Award candidates. It is located 

in a choice part of the garden with good exposure 

to the sun. By July, they should be ready to show 

us their best features. 

One of the beds in the front yard contains small- and 

miniature-flowered cultivars. 

This is not a hybridizer’s garden or a collector’s garden 

per se. It is planned, planted, and cared for by an exfarm 

girl who loves to grow things, especially those 

plants that bloom. The Larsons take pride in growing 

healthy clumps of hemerocallis that send up a good 

number of scapes that bear well-formed, clear blossoms. 

Older “tried and true” cultivars are compared with 

newer ones. Most of the gardening chores are done by 

the Larsons, who do not use chemicals; so, you may 

Pat Bell in her Garden 

The Larson Garden 

Joanne and Gaylen Larson 

49 Woodland Drive, Barrington, IL 60010 

Since 1973, Joanne and Gaylen Larson have lived and 

gardened along Flint Creek in Barrington, a northwest 

suburb located about 45 miles from the city of Chicago. 

Many mature oaks and the creek lend a parklike 

atmosphere to the back yard of their two-acre property. 

Carol McClintock, Joanne’s daylily mentor, advised her 

to plant hybrids to aid in erosion control along the creek 

bank. The first 14 plants were purchased at the 

Chicagoland Daylily Society’s August sale, and 10 of 

those plants are still growing along the creek. 

The initial planting performed admirably in partial 

shade, and a double row of plants soon stretched along 

the creek. The creek-bank planting has been increased 

to a triple row, and still there are clumps awaiting a 

spot in one of the beds. Plants number over 500 at the 

present time, with over 90 hybridizers represented. 

Joanne Larson in the Larson Garden 

see thrip damage. The battle with local critters, such 

as beaver, woodchuck, muskrat, and deer, is always 

an ongoing one. 

No plants are marketed from this garden, but plants 

are shared with “hem” friends, garden club members, 

and they are donated for annual sales held by the local 

society. 

Visitors are always welcomed every summer in this 

AHS Display Garden, especially in July. 

The Garden of Rosemar 

osemary Balazs 

Rosemary Balazs 

329 N. Oak Street, Hinsdale, IL 60521 

Rosemary’s garden is located on a city-size lot in 

Hinsdale, but over 500 cultivars have found a home 

there. The owner’s love of daylilies has intensified since 

she took early retirement eight years ago, and every 

year there has been a new project to expand the daylily 

garden wherever possible. 

Last year, she grouped many of her hemerocallis by 



The Rosemary Balazs Gardens 

Continued from page 34 

color in an attempt to harmonize the small garden in 

its overall effect. There are also two collections of 

flowers hybridized by Brother Reckamp and Leo Sharp. 

Both hybridizers emphasize glorious soft colors, and 

that is the mainstay of this garden. 

Four years ago, the front garden was opened to expand 

the flower beds, and about 160 daylilies are now in 

this area. On the north side of this garden is also the 

gold, orange, and red grouping, enhanced with 

numerous perennials. While these colors are not 

favorites, grouped together they are probably the most 

exciting, electrifying spot in the garden. 

Along the south side of the house, beyond the front 

entrance, is a pink grouping of old favorites, and in 

the center bed is the main Brookwood collection. 

Several guest plants were planted here for the Region 

2 Meeting, some of which are the newest cultivars from 

Leo Sharp. 

Because of the front garden’s proximity to a public 

sidewalk, the garden has become an excellent 

educational tool to inform the public about hemerocallis 

and the daylily organizations. The Chicagoland group 

meets at the local Community House in Hinsdale, but 

most passersby also learn of Rosemary’s two other 

daylily affiliations: The North Shore Iris and Daylily 

Society, which meets at the beautiful Chicago Botanic 

Garden in Glencoe, and the Prairieland Daylily Society, 

which meets in Bradley, Illinois. 

This garden became an AHS Display Garden in 1998. 

The inspiration to pursue this honor was the hope that 

small gardens, by utilizing space to the maximum, can 

still provide a proper setting for our favorite flower. 

Region 2 Summer Meeting Tour Gardens (continued) 

The Kirin Garden 

Millie and Charlie Kirin 

8450 Heather Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60521 

Some fifty years ago, when planning their future and 

thinking of having their own house, Millie would often 

remark, “When we have our house, I’m going to have nothing 

but grass and evergreens.” Today, they have their house at 

the end of the street in a cul-de-sac on a third of an acre with 

over 600 daylilies, some perennials, annuals, and hardly any 

evergreens. Charlie wonders what happened. 

The daylilies are located in ten raised beds with a collection 

of Siloams, Marsh’s Chicago series, Leo Sharp’s Brookwoods, 

and Dennis Anderson’s Indy series. There is also a fine 

Millie and Charlie in their Garden 

collection of doubles, which continues to grow and expand. 

The spiders are located just behind the Chicago bed. The 

remaining beds include some of the newer varieties as well 

as some of the “oldies but goodies.” 

On any given day, the garden shed door opens around nine 

o’clock and closes about four. The Kirins work their garden 

daily. Millie does the planning and buying of daylilies while 

Charlie digs the holes and does the landscaping. All of this 

work helps make a beautiful blaze of color during blooming 

season. 

Region 2 Symposium 2000/Bob 

Schw 

hwar 

arz z Presents: 

Dancing on Air–Unusual Forms 

orms 

orms (continued from page 23) 

Rosemary Balazs in her Garden 

and quilled. 

This combination of well-presented oral descriptions of such 

forms and a series of corresponding illustrative slides helped 

the audience understand better what the various terms 

mean. Plus, the cultivars were a good reminder that beauty 

is not confined to being round and gold braided any more 

than a single color. All in all, this was an excellent presentation 

that was both informative and a “hoot.” 



This and That, from 

AHS to Regional 

Topics 

Garden Judges 

By Phyllis Cantini, Regional Garden Judges Liaison 

How many times and how many different ways can 

we tell you, Region 2 Needs Garden Judges! 

Garden Judges are the people who vote the national cultivar 

awards. If you want input into selecting the winners, 

you should be a garden judge. 

If you attend the AHS National Convention or Region 

2 Summer Meeting this summer, try to schedule your 

time to take in the Garden Judge Workshops. There 

are two workshops required, both easy, both with 

knowledgeable instructors. No tests! 

How easy is it to be a Garden Judge Do you visit 5 or 

more gardens a year Can you attend one National or 

Regional to qualify Then, after becoming a garden 

judge, can you fit in two Nationals or Regionals over a 

5-year period It’s that easy. 

Other than remembering to vote on time each year, 

it's a “piece of cake.” 

Of course, we do want our judges to be conscientious 

in their observing and voting on cultivars, which is 

why we ask our members to take the classes to learn 

the responsibilities of being a Garden Judge. 

I hope I have encouraged some of you to take the Workshops 

this summer, and I am looking forward to seeing 

some new faces in the class. 

Remember 

emember, , Region 2 needs more Garden Judges! 

Looking Ahead 

AHS Region 2 Meetings 

2000: Chicagoland Daylily Society, 

Burr Ridge, Illinois, July 21-23. 

2001: Greater Cincinnati Daylily and Hosta Society 

2002: Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society 

2003: Madison County DS and the Southwestern 

Illinois Hemerocallis Society, June 27-29. 

Region 2 Englerth Award 

This hybridizing excellence award is open to Region 2 

hybridizers exclusively. All seedling and cultivars that 

have not been registered are eligible. Plants entered as 

candidates for this award are to be planted in one of the 

designated Region 2 Summer Meeting tour gardens and 

are to be marked with a code number only. All attendees of 

the Region 2 Meeting are encouraged to vote on ballots to 

be supplied by the meeting chairperson. The award medallions 

are to be engraved with the winner’s name and are 

awards to be cherished. 

To enter your seedling, ship enough fans of the plant so that 

it has a good chance of blooming on the day of the tour. 

Information about future annual regional meetings and 

the shipment of plants for Englerth consideration and as 

guest plants follow below. 

Contacts and shipping info for Englerth Award candi- 

date plants: 

Please contact me: 

Phyllis Cantini, Region 2 Garden Judge Liaison 


Orchard Lake, MI 48324-2416 

Phone: 248-363-2352 

Email: jamescantini@cs.com 

Tell Your Friends 

to join AHS... 

And visit these AHS Web Sites: 

•http://www.daylilies.org/daylilies.html 

•http://www.daylilies.org 

•Daylilies Growing Along The Information High 

way: http://www.daylilies.com/daylilies 

•For a complete list of Daylily Internet Home Page 

Listings, write to Ted White: tedwhite1@aol.com 

2000 – Chicagoland Daylily Society 

Pat and Charles Bell 

39W582 Deer Run Drive 

St Charles, IL 60175 

630-377-3705 

2001 – Greater er Cincinnati 

Daylily and Hosta Society 

Betsy Detmer 

1562 New London Road 

Hamilton, OH 45013 

513-895-6509 

2002 – Southern Michigan Daylily Society 

ty 

Janice Seifert 

906 Heather Lake Drive 

Clarkston, MI 48348 

248-393-0844 

janseifert@usa.net 

2003 – Co-hosts: Madison County DS and 

the Southwest 

estern ern Illinois Hemerocallis Society 

Debbie Gray 

Meridian Gardens 

8209 Bivens Road 

Dorsey IL 62021 

618-377-1481 

meridian@spiff.net 


This and That, from AHS to Regional Topics 

opics 

Electing a Regional Vice President: 

It’s YOUR Responsibility! 


opics (continued) 

The Region 2 Nominating Committee's RVP Candidate Gregory 

W. McMullen joined the American Hemerocallis Society in 1994, 

which was just after his initial involvement with the Indiana 

Daylily-Iris Society and after his attendance at the Region 2 

Summer Meeting in Indianapolis. More recently, Greg was a 

founding member of the Hoosier Daylily Society in an effort to 

develop a better support group for others with a serious daylily 

addiction. Bryant Millikan, from whom he received a wealth of 

growing tips and techniques, spurred his interest in daylilies 

and in hybridizing. Greg is eagerly anticipating the first crop of 

his miniature spiders in the summer of 2000. 

Greg has always felt that continuing education plays an important 

part of anyone's life. To that end, he and Don Jerabek were 

Region 2 Winter Symposium co-chairpersons in 1997, 1998, and 

1999, and they were also co-recipients of the 1998 Regional Newsletter 

Award for Best Article About Hybridizing published in the 

AHS Region 4 newsletter. Greg has found that being a member 

of the AHS E-mail Robin has been a source for a wealth of information 

about day 


The Nominating Committee’s Candidate: 

Greg McMullen from Indiana 

$ Vote for only one candidate, either the committee’s recommendation or a write-in candidate. 

$ Votes for write-in candidate require permission of the candidate. 

$ The listed candidate was selected by the Region 2 Nominating Committee consisting of Chair Verna 

Habermel, Indiana; Harold Steen, Wisconsin; and Rosemary Foltz, Ohio. 

Mail to: 

Ballot t – Region 2 RVP 

VP 

Two o year ear term 2001-2002 

& Vote for only one candidate and mark your ballot 

with an “X” in the box. 

& Ballot must be signed and dated to be counted. 

& Ballot must be postmarked no later than June 15, 

2000. 

Mrs. Verna Habermel 

3619 Wagner Drive 

Floyds Knobs, Indiana 47119 

( Gregory y W. . McMullen 

(___________________________________ 

(For Write-in Candidate) 

Voter's Signature 

Date 

City_________________________________State___________ 

Ballot t – Region 2 RVP 

VP 

Two o year ear term 2001-2002 

(This Ballot is for Second AHS Family Member) 

& Vote for only one candidate and mark your ballot 

with an “X” in the box. 

& Ballot must be signed and dated to be counted. 

& Ballot must be postmarked no later than June 15, 

2000. 

Mail to: 

Mrs. Verna Habermel 



( Gregory y W. . McMullen 

(____________________________________ 

(For Write-in Candidate) 

Voter's Signature 

Date 

City ________________________________State ___________ 




opics 

Riley Barnett Remembered 

By Verna Habermel 

The world of daylilies lost one of it’s most ardent supporters 

in September 1999. 

Riley Barnett was a grower and hybridizer in the Southern 

Indiana area. He was loved by all who knew him. Riley 

started growing daylilies back in the 80’s. Then, about ten 

years ago, he started hybridizing. He was heard to complain 

that all he was getting were “muddy flowers.” He upgraded 

his hybridizing plants, and he purchased some of the newest 

and best cultivars from Kirchhoff, Morss, the Stamiles, 

and the Salters. During the last summer, he was blooming 

some really great seedlings, and he had planned to register 

some of his creations in the near future. 

Riley not only sold daylilies, but he worked with anyone who 

needed information about a cultivar. He was truly a teacher 

and mentor. In September of this year, just before this death, 

Riley donated many STOUT Medal Winners to the Interpretative 

Center here in southern Indiana for its extensive daylily 

beds are. Many of the cultivars in these beds were originally 

donated by Riley and his wife Doris. The Barnetts donated 

many of the flowers to the local churches’ flower beds. 

Riley was so proud of his AHS Display Garden, Barnett’s 

Hillside Garden, located in Memphis, Indiana. He served 

the AHS as a Garden Judge, and he was working towards 

his exhibition judge status. 

At the time of his death, Riley was honorary President of 

the newly formed Daylily Society of Southern Indiana. He 

will be greatly missed by all who knew him, and he will always 

be remembered for his love of daylilies. 

Thank you to all of you who donated plants, 

drawings, and books to the Region 2 Sympo- 

sium auction, and thank you to all of you 

who bid on the offered cultivar 

ars and items: 

We appreciate e your support! 

t! 

Thank You for Donating Funds so 

Generously to the Region 2 Newsle 

wslett 

tter 

This listing reflects those donations received since the 1999/ 

2000 Fall/Winter publication of the Region Two Newsletter 

The Wisconsin Daylily Society 

The Metr 

tropolitan Columbus Daylily Society 

Jerry P. . and Pamela Williams of Cincinnati, Ohio 

Daylily Society of Southeast Wisconsin 


AHS and Regional 

Awards and Honors 

Mildred Schlumpf Award 

ard 

The award, a silver tray is furnished by Region 14, and 

is presented each year at the AHS national convention. 

The award is presented to the best entry of slides in a 

sequence of events that gives information relating to 

daylilies. The award is kept by the winner. Deadline for 

nomination is 4/1.(Judging Daylilies Handbook, A2-3/4) 

Region 14-Slide Sequence Award 

ard 

Mildred Schlumpf wished to stimulate interest in good 

photography and to build up the AHS Slide Library. The 

awards, two silver trays, are given each year at the national 

convention of the AHS for the individual who submits 

the winning landscape slide. The other will go to 

the person who enters the winning slide of an individual 

daylily bloom. Nomination deadline is 4/1.(Judging 

Daylilies Handbook, A2-2) 

A.D. Roquemore Memorial Award 

The award, a pewter plate, is awarded by Mrs. A. L. Trott 

to honor the memory of A. D. Roquemore. The award is 

presented for the best slide of a cultivar clump showing 

the foliage, the scape(s), and the flower(s) to give a total 

picture. Nomination deadline is 4/1. (Judging Daylilies 

Handbook, A2-3) 

Lazarus Memorial Award 

The award of artwork is given by Brian and Judy Lazarus 

in memory of their son, Devin, and is given for the best 

video recording of a presentation relating to daylilies. 

Nomination deadline is 4/1. 

(Judging Daylilies Handbook, A2-1) 

Polish Your Camera Lenses Please! 

Region 2 Summer Meeting 2000 Will be a Per 

erfect 

ect 

Slide-Taking Opportunity 

tunity. 

t! Gisela Meckstroth 

You may have noticed that the newsletter’s front 

covers try to feature Region 2 gardens which will 

be or have been on the Region 2 Summer Meeting 

garden tours. The Englerth Award winner is featured 

on the back cover of the fall issue, and a 

Region 2 tour garden on the spring issue. 

Try to think ahead while you are planning to take 

slides during or for your own regional summer 

meeting. If possible, turn your camera for vertical 

slides that can be used on the 8.5 x 11 inch 

front cover, and sideways 

for horizontal slides for 

the back cover, using 

Kodachrome 64 film. 



opics 

Information About 

AHS Personal Awards 

Regional Service Award 

ard 

In 1974 the Board of Directors established that the 

Society may award a limited number of medals each 

year to members of the regions for outstanding service 

at the regional level. An equivalent award, the 

International Service Award, may be awarded to a 

member of AHS International. Currently serving 

board members and Regional Vice Presidents are not 

eligible for this award. No more than one AHS Regional 

Service medal shall be awarded within a region per 

year. A dual award for two members of the same family 

will count as one. Nominations must come from 

members of the nominee's region. In the case of the 

international award, nominations may also be submitted 

by the AHS International Secretary. Nominations 

must be sent to the AHS Awards and Honors 

Chairman by 1 September. Each nomination must 

be typed, single-spaced on one sheet of paper, and 

must contain a summary of the nominee's worthiness 

for this award. Selections are made by secret 

ballot at the fall meeting of the Board of directors. 

The award presentations are made at the next national 

convention. Society-sponsored personal 

awards are made annually, and the recipients of the 

various awards are determined by vote of the Board 

of Directors or by special panels of judges. 

AHS Board of Directors determines the recipients 

of the following awards: 

The Society may honor two of its members each year 

for outstanding service and accomplishment by conferring 

the following medals: 

Helen Field Fischer Gold Medal 

This is the Society's highest honor and is the official 

recognition for distinguished and meritorious service 

rendered the Society by a member on the national level. 

A thorough investigation shall be made in determine 

the recipient of the Helen Field Fischer Award. A complete 

list of services the candidates have rendered the 

Society shall be made for all members considered for 

this honor. A dual award for two members of the same 

family will count as one. 

Bertrand Farr Silver Medal 

This medal is a distinguished honor for members who 

have attained outstanding results in the field of hybridizing. 

For the Bertrand Farr Award, a complete 

investigation shall be made of the qualifications and 

accomplishments of the hybridizers considered. A list 

of all awards (outside awards as well as AHS awards) 

and appearances on the Popularity Poll should be 

made. Special attention should be given to unusual 

accomplishments such as new color breaks, etc. This 

award can only be given to a single individual. 

In order to assist the Board of Directors in determining 

the most worthy candidates, AHS members may 

send their nominations for these two awards to 



the AHS Awards and Honors Chairman by 1 

September. Each nomination must be typed, singlespaced 

on one sheet of paper, and must contain a summary 

of the nominee's worthiness for this award. Currently 

serving board members and Regional Vice Presidents 

are not eligible for either of these awards. 

The names of all candidates, with a listing of their 

qualifications and accomplishments, shall be presented 

to the Board of Directors by the AHS Awards and 

Honors Chairman prior to the fall board meeting. Final 

selection will be made by secret ballot of the board. 

Announcement of the winners of both awards, if merited, 

and presentation of the medals will be made at 

the annual Awards and Honors Banquet. 

Southwest 

estern ern Indiana Daylily Society ty Uses Point 

System for Distribution of Asset t Plants. 

by Lea Ann Williams 

SWIDS budgets a certain amount of money each year 

for purchase of recently introduced daylilies. These 

daylilies are ordered from various hybridizers and are 

received in April each year for distribution to members 

to grow in their gardens for two years. In April of 

the second year, the member keeps two fans and returns 

the remainder to the club. One fan of each cultivar 

is planted in the club display garden at the Sheriff’s 

Training Center in Evansville, Indiana. The remaining 

fans are auctioned to members. 

The first two years these plants were distributed to all 

club members by a random drawing. Then a member 

suggested a system to reward members who work hardest 

to benefit SWIDS and promote the daylily. The idea 

was to award SWIDS members a certain number of 

points for doing various duties associated with the club. 

This idea was voted upon and accepted. A point schedule 

was developed by a committee and accepted by the 

membership. A certain number of points are awarded 

to each officer, director, chairperson, newsletter editor, 

etc. Points are awarded for belonging to AHS, attending 

national, regional, and local meetings. Members 

receive points for giving programs at meetings or 

by representing SWIDS and giving daylily programs 

at other community events. Points are given for bringing 

refreshments, door prizes, writing news articles, 

exhibiting daylilies at the show, etc. Points are 

awarded for hosting a garden tour at your garden, etc. 

There are also per/hour points awarded for duties such 

as digging, washing or labeling plants for the sale and 

many other activities. 

Members are responsible for reporting their points 

monthly to the “point tabulator,” who records and tabulates 

all points. (The “point keeper” also receives points 

for this responsibility.) The SWIDS point keeper has 

a system set up on a computer. 

In April, these points are then used to determine the 

position for which the newly-purchased asset plants 

are chosen. The member with the highest number of 




This and That, from 

AHS to Regional 

Topics 

opics 

SWIDS Point System 

(continued from page 44) 

points for the previous year gets first choice, etc. When 

the asset plants are brought back after two years for 

auction, members use the same previous year’s points 

to bid on these plants. One point is worth $1.00. They 

may also use cash if they wish. 

There are other requirements that must be met in order 

to receive asset plants. The SWIDS member must 

be an AHS member and must have accumulated a minimum 

of 60 points during the previous year. 

The “point system” has been very successful. Members 

are eager to volunteer and take a more active part in 

club functions. Everyone can earn points in some way 

if they choose. If members are physically unable to 

perform labor such as digging, they can earn points by 

providing refreshments, donating door prizes or 

through contributing in a number of other activities. 

If you would like more details on the point system, contact 

Don or Lea Ann Williams at 812-922-5288 or 

drw@dynasty.net. We would be happy to help your 

club set up a similar system for your asset plant distribution. 

Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily Society 

Projects for the 21st Century 

opics (Continued) 

Northern Grown wn Daylilies and Growing Daylilies 

Hydroponically 


will involve spraying the hydroponic TC plants with growth 

regulators to induce plant multiplication or change ploidy. 

He feels many new fascinating daylily happenings are on 

the horizon, whether achieved by genetic engineering, genegun 

technology, chemical mutants, or radiation (gamma, x- 

ray, etc.). Mr. Doorakian believes we need national/regional 

testing of all daylily introductions along with a hardiness 

rating being assigned. 

Mr. Doorakian closed his program with this motivational 

advice: "We are in the new Millennium. Old rules do not 

apply. We are what we think we are. Reinvent yourself. Learn 

to dance. Embrace new heights. Explore new territory. Mentor 

someone young or old. Do what you love." 

Some Moments from the Symposium 

The Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily Society 

has some new and special projects: 

The 21st Century Project is a joint, longterm, 

educational project of the BSHDS at 

the Toledo Botanical Gardens (TBG) in Toledo, 

Ohio. The project's mission is to promote 

the appreciation and cultivation of daylilies 

and hostas in the home garden and in 

the public landscape. This mission will be pursued through 

the establishment of comprehensive daylily and hosta collections 

and displays whose botanical diversity and depth of presentation 

will generate return visits by the casual stroller and 

novice gardener, avid gardeners, and daylily fanciers right 

along to the master gardeners and professional landscape designers. 

The Society, along with TBG, will conduct educational 

workshops that will focus on the cultivation of daylilies. 

The centerpiece of TBG's daylily collection is the Crescent 

Bed located in the Perennial Garden. The display plan of 

this collection is based on sectional groupings of all the major 

AHS award winners, including the Stout Silver Medal, 

Donn Fisher Memorial Award, Annie T. Giles Award, 

Lenington All-America Award, Ida Munson Award, L. Ernest 

Plouf Award, Don C. Stevens Award, Harris Olson Spider 

Award, Eugene S. Foster Award, the James E. Marsh Award 

winners, and the species daylilies. All award winners are 

arranged by year in which the award was won. 

Several hundred more daylilies are also on display with many 

new cultivars being added each year. AHS members are encouraged 

to plan a trip to Toledo to see this complete display 

of award winners that have been planted at TBG. 

Contact: Don Bixler, President, 2550 Cherry Ridge Dr., Fremont, 

OH 43240 Tel: 419-0355-8116 Email: daylilyguy@nwonline.net 

Paul Limmer from New York and Dr. Joann Stewart 

from Georgia who wrote about the Region 2 Symposium 

presentations. 

Anxious “equipment” moments for Curt Hanson 


AHS Exhibition Judges for Region 2 

by Jay Turman, Chairman, AHS Judges and Clinics Committee 


Name, Status, Expiration Date 

Connie Abel ........................ S ............. 2000 

Lee A. Alden ....................... S ............. 2002 

Daniel E. Bachman ............ EX .......... 2000 

Rosemary Balazs ................ E/j .......... 2002 

Greg Bartoshuk .................. S ............. 2000 

Bob Bearce .......................... E/j .......... 2001 

Dr. Caroline Benser ........... EX .......... 2000 

Don Bixler ........................... E/j .......... 2001 

Ann Bixler ........................... E/j .......... 2001 

Dolores C. Bourisaw .......... EX, I ...... 2002 

Patricia Callis ..................... S ............. 2000 

Phyllis Cantini ................... E/j .......... 2000 

Thomas J. Connell ............. EX .......... 2003 

Patrick J. Conway .............. S ............. 2000 

Kathleen Dargel ................. S ............. 2002 

Judy Davisson .................... S ............. 1999 

Patricia Del Vecchio ........... S ............. 2000 

Armand DeLisle ................. S ............. 2002 

Barbara DeLisle ................. S ............. 2002 

Lu Dickhaut ........................ EX, I ...... 2003 

Orville Dickhaut ................. EX, I ...... 2003 

Nina Dix .............................. E/h ................. 

J. Paul Downie, DDS ......... E/j .......... 2002 

Lura Emig ........................... EX .......... 2001 

John Everitt ........................ S ............. 1999 

Shirley Farmer ................... EX .......... 2001 

Gary Faust .......................... S ............. 2002 

Dale Finney ........................ EX .......... 2003 

Marjorie Finney ................. EX .......... 2003 

Sharon Fitzpatrick ............. EX .......... 2003 

Rosemarie Foltz ................. EX, I ...... 2003 

Richard L. Ford .................. EX, I ...... 2002 

Jon L. Fowler ...................... E/j .......... 2001 

Janet Gordon ...................... EX .......... 2003 

Deborah L. Gray ................. S ............. 2002 


Rosalyn Haag ..................... S ............. 2000 

Verna Habermel ................. S ............. 2002 

Virginia L. Heller ............... EX, I ...... 2002 

Patricia Crooks Henley ...... EX, I ...... 2002 

Richard D. Henley .............. EX, I ...... 2003 

Anita M. Holst .................... S ............. 2002 

Jean Johnson ...................... EX .......... 2001 

Ken Johnson ....................... EX .......... 2001 

Marie Johnson .................... S ............. 2002 

Martin Kamensky .............. EX .......... 2000 

Kimberly Kaufman ............ EX .......... 2001 

Sarah B. Keller ................... S ............. 1999 

Barbara J. Kelly ................. EX .......... 2002 

William F. (Bill) Kelly ........ EX .......... 2002 

Joan Kepf ............................ S ............. 2002 

Charles Kirin ...................... EX .......... 2003 

Mildred (Millie) Kirin ........ EX .......... 2003 

Margaret Klipp ................... EX .......... 2002 

Randall E. Klipp ................. EX .......... 2002 

Amy Klipp ........................... E/j .......... 2001 

Dorothy Koons .................... E/j .......... 2000 

Irene L. Koziel .................... S ............. 2002 

Jennifer Kuehn .................. S ............. 2000 

Carol Lammi ....................... S ............. 2002 

Karen Lantz ........................ S ............. 2000 

Joanne E. Larson ............... EX, I ...... 2003 

Mary Anne Leisen .............. E/j .......... 2001 

Anthony C. Lysek ............... S ............. 2000 

Carol McClintock ............... EX .......... 2001 

Patrice McCollum............... EX .......... 2003 

James McMurry ................. S ............. 2000 

Rebecca McMurry .............. S ............. 2000 

Gisela Meckstroth .............. EX .......... 2003 

Carol Meglan ...................... S ............. 2002 

Mary Milanowski ............... S ............. 2000 


Thomas D. . Milanowski ...... S ............. 2000 

Edwin L. Myers .................. EX .......... 2000 

Virginia Myers .................... EX .......... 2000 

C. Daniel Overholser ......... EX .......... 2000 

Charles R. Parshell ............ S ............. 2002 

William A. Potter ............... EX .......... 2000 

Carol J. Reich ..................... EX .......... 2000 

Hal H. Rice ......................... EX, I ...... 2002 

Shawn Rickly ...................... S ............. 2000 

Sandra Grace Ross ............. EX .......... 2000 

Caryl Schaer ....................... E/j .......... 2001 

Martha Seaman .................. EX .......... 2000 

Marie Seaman .................... E/j .......... 2001 

Janice Seifert ...................... EX .......... 2000 

Bill Sevetson ....................... S ............. 2000 

Leo E. Sharp, Sr. ................ E/j .......... 2000 

Greg Schindler ................... S ............. 2002 

Alice Simon ......................... E/j .......... 2001 

G. Bruce Smith ................... S ............. 2001 

Marjorie C. Soules .............. EX, I ...... 2002 

Elizabeth Jean Stallcop ........ EX .......... 2003 

Harold Steen ....................... E/j .......... 2000 

Florence E. Stout ............... E/h ................. 

Bette Thomsen ................... EX .......... 2003 

Gerard Vandermeer ........... S ............. 2002 

D. Steve Varner .................. E/h 

Ann Waite ........................... EX .......... 2002 

Ruth S. Whithead ............... EX .......... 2000 

Rita Whitney ...................... S ............. 2000 

Ethel Wilcox ....................... S ............. 2002 

Bob Wilcox .......................... S ............. 2002 

Lea Ann Williams .............. S ............. 2002 

Don R. Williams ................. S ............. 2002 

Dr. Virginia Winkler .......... EX, I ...... 2002 

William (Bill) Wright ......... S ............. 2000 

Legend: 

EX =Senior Exhibition Judge 

E/j =Junior Exhibition Judge 

E/h =Honorary Exhibition Judge (not eligible to judge) 

I =Accredited Clinic Instructor 

S =Student in Training 

Date = Expiration of accreditation 

*Serving 1-year hardship extension 

Jay y Turman, Chairman 

AHS Exhibition Judges and Clinics Committee 

ee 

3505 Ruland Place 

Nashville, TN 372 

7215-1 

5-1811 

E-mail: JayT 

yTurman@classic.msn.com 

Not 

ote: 

Status as of 1/1/2000 

Accreditation for 2000 is subject to payment of AHS dues by 

January 1, 2000. 

A Lett 

tter from our Regional Exhibition Judges Liaison Richar 

hard Ford 

Here we are again looking forward to another summer of viewing fabulous blooms, visiting great gardens, 

and talking hours about daylilies to friends and strangers. Then, there are the daylily club shows. 

This is still another facet of growing, displaying, and loving daylilies. The club show is putting daylilies at 

their best on the show table in front of the public. In the garden we take care to make daylilies look their 

best. Well, we do the same at the show table, but in a very meticulous fashion. Friends come in handy to 

help learn these meticulous “tricks of the trade.” All this fuss is for ribbons and honors at the show and for 

the public to learn more about daylilies. 

This leads us to “The Judge,” or should I say judges. They are the ones that take the time to observe 

daylilies constantly in all settings. Actually, we all do that anyway, but judges have a good reason to look. 




AHS Garden Judges for Region 2 

Illinois 

Indiana 

Rosemary Balazs ............. 2002 

Charles Bell ..................... 2001 

Patricia Bell ..................... 2001 

Karyn Berner .................. 2000 

Delores Bourisaw ............ 2003 

Luella Dickhaut ........ I .. 2000 

Orville Dickhaut ........ I .. 2000 

Leslie A. Fischer .............. 2003 

Nona E. Ford ................... 2001 

Richard L. Ford ............... 2001 

Geraldine Frankenberger2001 

James Frankenberger ..... 2004 

Kimberly A. Kaufman ..... 2003 

Barbara J. Kelly .............. 2001 

William F. Kelly .............. 2001 

Charles Kirin ................... 2000 

Mildred Kirin ................... 2002 

Margaret M. Klipp .......... 2003 

Randall E. Klipp .............. 2003 

Joyce A. Laben ................ 2003 

Joanne E. Larson ............ 2000 

Mary Anne Leisen ........... 2000 

Carol R. McClintock ........ 2002 

Gayle A. Menges ............. 2001 

Lorraine G. Musak .......... 2001 

William A. Potter ............ 2001 

Elizabeth Raz .................. 2002 

Bill Sevetson .................... 2001 

Barbara Sondalle ............ 2001 

Mrs. Bette Thomsen ....... 2000 

D. Steve Varner ................ Hon 

William P. Vaughn .......... 2000 

Ann Waite ........................ 2001 

George Paul Watts ........... Hon 

Dale Finney ..................... 2000 

Marjorie Finney .............. 2000 

John Habermel ................ 2003 

Verna Habermel .............. 2003 

Don Jerabek .................... 2001 

Janice F. Kraft ......... N .. 2004 

Robert E. Kraft ......... N .. 2004 

Greg McMullen ................ 2001 

C. Daniel Overholser ...... 2000 

Leo E. Sharp, Sr. ....... I .. 2000 

Donald C. Smith .............. 2001 

Clarence Soules ................ Hon 

Marjorie Soules ............... 2002 

Elizabeth Jean Stallcop .. 2001 

Rosalie Stam .................... 2003 

Mary B. Stone .................. 2003 

Melvin (Joe) Stone .......... 2002 

Don Williams ................... 2002 

Lea Ann Williams ........... 2002 

Doris Winton ................... 2003 

Michigan 

Richard Adams ................ 2001 

Phyllis Cantini ............ I 2003 * 

John P. Cody .................... 2002 

Kathleen Dargel .............. 2003 

Glenn Davisson ............... 2003 

Judy Davisson ................. 2003 

Armand J. Delisle .... N .. 2004 

Barbara A. Delisle .... N .. 2004 

Jed Fulkerson .................. 2003 

Ila A. Fulkerson ....... N .. 2004 

James Guzinski ......... I .. 2003 

Virginia L. Heller ............ 2001 

Martin Kamensky ........... 2001 

Joan E. Kepf .................... 2003 

Chris Kruer ..................... 2000 

Patrice McCollum............ 2001 

Mary Milanowski ............ 2004 

Tom Milanowski .............. 2002 

Harris E. Olson ............... 2000 

Hal H. Rice ................ I .. 2000 

Janice Seifert ................... 2001 

Douglas Jay Veurink ...... 2003 

Arlene E. Welsh .............. 2003 

Ohio 

Connie Abel ..................... 2001 

Daniel E. Bachman ......... 2002 

Gerda E. Brooker ............ 2003 

Malcolm D. Brooker ........ 2003 

Patricia Callis .................. 2002 

Sharon Fitzpatrick .... I .. 2002 

Rosemarie Foltz ........ I .. 2001 

Curt Hanson .............. I .. 2000 

Patricia Crooks Henley I .. 2004 

Richard Henley ................ 2004 

Gail A. Johannes ............. 2002 

William C. Johannes ....... 2002 

Jean Johnson ................... 2002 

Ken Johnson .................... 2002 

James McMurry .............. 2002 

Rebecca McMurry ........... 2002 

Gisela Meckstroth ........... 2001 

Robert Meckstroth .......... 2002 

Edwin L. Myers ............... 2002 

Virginia Myers ................. 2004 

James Nicholson ............. 2002 

Richard Norris ................. 2004 

Sandra Grace Ross .......... 2001 

Martha Seaman ............... 2000 

Robert Shaver .................. 2002 

Robert Terbeek ................. Hon 

Wisconsin 

Dr. Caroline Benser ........ 2004 

Dr. Jerry Benser ....... I .. 2004 

Howard L. Brookins . N .. 2004 

Dave Butcher ................... 2004 

Janet Gordon ................... 2004 

Ruth Z. Horrall ......... N .. 2004 

Douglas P. Maxwell . N .. 2004 

Martha D. Maxwell .. N .. 2004 

Paul Meske ...................... 2002 

Hiram Pearcy .................. 2003 

William E. Powell ............ 2002 

Legend: 

Hon = Honorary 

N = New Judge 

I = Instructor 

200X = Expiration date 

* = Garden 

Judges Liaison 

Notice tice of Important Changes Regarding the AHS Garden Judges Wor 

orkshops 

Beginning with 1999, prospective new AHS Garden Judges will be required to take two workshops: 

Workshop I and Workshop II 

Workshop I 

This workshop is designed to educate AHS membership in the area of the AHS Honors and Awards system, 

differentiating those awards that are determined by the Garden Judge and those awards that are determined 

by the various AHS Honors and Awards committee. Workshop I also instructs what a Garden Judge 

is and how Garden Judges evaluate seedlings and registered cultivars. 

Workshop II 

This workshop costs $5.00 and is designed for those AHS members wishing to join the ranks as a Garden 

Judge. Current Garden Judges are required to attend this workshop at least once in the last three years of 

their current term for renewal purposes. They may attend this workshop yearly for noncredit purposes 

(free). 

Workshop I and II will continue to be offered during the Region 2 Annual Summer Meetings, and nothing 

prohibits clubs from sponsoring a Workshop I at a club meeting. Call your Region 2 Liaison or RVP for 

details. 

Region Two currently has 110 active Garden Judges and 4 Honorary Garden Judges. We encourage all 

Region AHS members to attend a Workshop I and to give serious consideration to becoming an AHS Garden 

Judge. 

Garden Judges are the backbone of the awards ards system for recognizing registered ered cultivar 

ars. 



Electing a Regional Vice President: 

It’s YOUR Responsibility! 


lilies, always keeping in mind that one can get out of a 

round robin what one puts back in to it. Greg also went 

back to college to earn a Master of Business Administration 

degree from Indiana University in 1999, an undertaking 

which took time away from gardening and 

hybridizing. 

Greg and Don are co-proprietors of Watson Park 

Dayliles, which was moved "lock, stock, and barrel" in 

1997 from its former urban setting to a new location 

on the north side of Indianapolis. Moving 425 cultivars 

and 1,000 seedlings took a lot of time, and through 

it all they were able to maintain their AHS Display 

Garden status, which was first received in 1996. They 

are in the second year of their five-year garden plan, 

with much to do yet in terms of landscape development. 

Daylilies, hostas, and northern-hardy magnolias 

were first items to be installed. Greg has been a 

Garden Judge since 1997 and has been on the AHS 

Display Gardens Committee since 1998. Greg enjoys 

entering plant shows, and he has won Best of Show for 

both daylilies and hostas. Greg is also a member of the 

American Hosta Society, the Indianapolis Hosta Society, 

and the Indianapolis Museum of Art Horticultural 

Society, where he assisted with the planting of the 

Bryant Millikan Memorial garden. 

Professionally, Greg is a practicing architect, with a 

degree from the University of Cincinnati. Greg is a 

member of the American Institute of Architects and 

The National Trust for Historic Preservation. 

A few Wor 

ords ds from om our Regional Exhibition Judges Liaison 

Richar 

hard d Ford (continued from page 45) 

Training is involved with becoming a AHS Exhibition 

Judge. Along with their own time observing and learning, 

judges attend clinics at regional and national meetings 

on three levels. Clinic-I deals with general topics 

of knowledge for a judge and a test over the material. 

Clinic-II is the actual training and testing to become a 

junior exhibition judge. Then, with experience as a 

show judge and with displaying at an accredited AHS 

show, you are ready to become a senior judge. Clinic- 

III is for junior and senior judges as a refresher course 

of all the training from Clinics I and II. Then there is 

an open discussion of problems encountered as a judge. 

This is then reported to the national committee and 

from that we can develop better shows and rules to 

govern them. 

For those of you up to the challenge, becoming a judge 

can be very rewarding. You will provide a service to 

the region and its clubs by helping educate the public 

to all the possibilities of daylilies. Personally, you will 

have an insight into the workings of one of the biggest 

undertakings of AHS–an accredited AHS daylily show– 

that only a few AHS members have. 

Look for the sign-up for Clinics I, II, and III when your 

registration for the regional meeting. I hope to see new 

faces in our clinics this year. Plenty of people will help 

get you on the road to an interesting job–judging. See 

you then. 

Club Information and 

Events Calendar 

Bay Area Daylily Buds 

This new club was formed on April 8, 1999, and officers 

elected are: 

• Chairman: Leo Bordeleau • Secretary: Luella Korth 

• Treasurer: Vonnie Baye • Newsletter: Phil Korth 

• Activities: Jan and Jerry Siudzinski, Kym Rappert, Judy 

DeCaster, Pat Kaster, Patcee Bucher, and Ruth 

Trowbridge. 

The club's first activity was a garden tour in July. A plant 

sale was held in September in conjunction with the Green 

Bay Botanical Garden open house. Members sold over 300 

plants, over $1000 was raised, and 9 new members joined 

the new club–bringing membership to 62. Plans for 2000 

include a flower show on July 23. 

Black k Swamp Hosta & Daylily Society 

ty 

May 6: ........................ Bus Tour to Cincinnati Flower Show 

May 20, 8 am: Churchill’s, Perrysburg, OH Annual Plant Sale 

June 3, 9 am: ....... Toledo Botanical Garden Hosta Garden. 

Work Day-Continuation of 21st Century Project 

June and July Dates to be announced 

Members Garden Tours/Hosta Gardens and Daylily Gardens 

View hosta gardens in June – View daylily gardens in July. 

July 9, 8 am:................................. Toledo Botanical Garden 

Non-Accredited Daylily Show, Conference Center 

Show open to the public 2 to 4 pm 

August 19, 9 am: ........................... Toledo Botanical Garden 

Daylily Garden Work Day. Continuation of 21st Century 

Project 

August 19, 1 pmDaylily Auction - Plants from Daylily Host 

Program 

September 16 1:30 pm: Meet at Lavender Blue Herb Farm 

in Waterville for tour by Valerie Trudeau and Members’ 

Plant Exchange 

October 14 1:30 pm: . TBG Conference Center Open Forum 

Town Hall Type Program 

”Putting Your Garden to Bed for Winter” 

November 11 12:30 pm: .... Way Public Library, Perrysburg 

Potluck - Speaker TBA 

We began the new year with our annual dinner meeting with 

Jim Wilkins, President of the American Hosta Society, as 

guest speaker, and “Swamp Bucks” were awarded to members 

who had served the society this past year. In February 

we had Joyce Blanton take us on a spring tour of Longwood 

and Winterthur Gardens. In March, Richard Kenyon, formerly 

of 577 Foundation, talked about “Perennials.” Our 21st 

Century committee is busy planning projects for 2000 at TBG, 

and focusing on program for our Hosta and Daylily Work 

Days to be held later this summer. 

Contact Person: Charlene Patz Telephone: 419-874-8964 

Email: fppatz@wcnet.org 



Club Information and Events Calendar (continued) 

For 

ort t Wayne Daylily Society 

ty, , Inc. 

President J. Paul Downey reports that the club elders have 

spoken, and there will be a club Foellinger-Freimann Daylily 

Show on Saturday, July 15. Wow! 

•Spring Round Up Meeting.... ........ Date to be announced* 

•Louisville Daylily Show .......................... Sunday, June 25 

•Indianapolis Daylily Show ...................... Saturday, July 1 

•Fort Wayne Daylily Display* Show ..... Saturday, July 15 

•Summer Show meeting........ ......... Date to be announced* 

•Fall Meeting with Speaker Bob Ellison of Ellison 

Perennials, Rockford, Illinois ......... Date and location to be 

announced* 

*Contact President Downey for time and dates. 

Greater er Cincinnati Daylily & Hosta Society 

ty 

President John Duke and the club members have planned 

this events calendar: 

April 6 .. Club meeting and program Daylily Companion 

Plants. 

May 11 ...... Club meeting, program Favorite Hostas and 

Grooming. 

•May 20 ...................... Tour of members' Hosta gardens. 

•June 3 ..................... 11th Annual Hosta Cut-Leaf Show 

•June 8 ....................... Club meeting and Adopt-a-Plant. 

•July 1 ................................... 17th Annual Daylily Show 

•July 8 ...................... Tours of members' daylily gardens 

•July 22 ................................... Members' bus tour to the 

......................................................... Louisville, KY, area. 

•August 5 ...........Joint Hosta meeting with Dayton and 

................................................................Columbus clubs. 

•August 19 ............................... Plant exchange, auction, 

.............................................................and potluck lunch. 

•September 21 ..................................... Club meeting and 

...................................................... Judy's Goodie Auction. 

•October 21 ............................................ Annual Banquet 

Southwest 

estern ern Illinois Daylily Club 

Agnes Miller reports that the club will have a great program 

besides the regular meeting in 2000. Activities will 

include a plant sale, visits to members yards, the annual 

flower show, an out-of-state trip to visit some beautiful gardens, 

and visits to people who are in hospitals. Club members 

will make it a point to vote in the Region 2 Popularity 

Poll. 

RPD’s and Editor’ Note: Please share your club news with 

others in our region. Send summarized information, please. 

Deadlines are March 1 and September 1. 

Hoosier Daylily Society Inc. 

Don Jerabek reports this Hoosier Calendar of Events: 

•February 24, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall. 

Plan on attending this month to experience a wonderful 

tour of AHS Display Gardens organized by Melanie 

Vassalo, AHS Display Garden Chairperson. 

•March 23, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall. 

March will be an exciting month, as Jamie Gossard of Columbus, 

Ohio, will visit us. Jamie will talk about his Spider 

Breeding Program and will astound us with some of his wonderful 

scientific knowledge about propagation. 

•April 27, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall 

We will have the pleasure of having local daylily grower 

Michael Whitlock recant his talk that was first presented at 

Region 2 Symposium 1996 on local hybridizer Bryant 

Millikan. 

•May 25, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall 

Mecca Madness! Recent slides taken in Florida gardens 

will be presented, as well as a speaker to be announced. 

•Summer Hiatus 

•September 28, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall 

Monthly Meeting 

•October 26, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall 


•November 16, 2000, 7:00 pm, Carmel City Hall 


The club has a “Hoods-link” to the Internet: 

http://www.garden.dmans.com/jshields/Hoosier/ 

Ohio Daylily Society 

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President Rosemarie Foltz reports these club activities and 

dates for 2000. Meetings will be held at Kingwood Center in 

Mansfield, Ohio. Also, please note that the show chair will 

be Sandy Ross. 

•July 16 ............. Daylily Show 

•August 20 ........ Daylily sale at noon, followed by auction 

•November 5 ..... Fall Meeting at 1:30 pm 

The Daylily Society of Southeast Wisconsin 

New officers for the year 2000 are: 

President: ..................... Don Coshun (262-547-2408) 

Vice President: ......... Zannah Crowe (262-677-1392) 

Secretary: ................... Sue Corcoran (262-679-3180) 

Treasurer: ......................... Ed Kraus (414-529-1213) 




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tropolitan Columbus Daylily Society 

Bill Johannes reports: 

Under the leadership of President Pete Mondron and with 

the help of scores of willing member volunteers, MCDS hasn’t 

missed a beat since hosting last year’s Region 2 Summer 

meeting. 

Our annual plant sale and auction in August was such a 

financial success that the club made grants to AHS Region 2 

(for the newsletter), the AHS Monroe Endowment Fund, and 

Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus. Meetings have 

been well attended, with member Lynn Fronk showing how 

to include daylilies in flower arrangements at the November 

meeting. Florida hybridizer MATTHEW KASKEL 

warmed a winter-weary crowd at the February meeting with 

his slides and breeding program discussion. 

Almost 100 members and family attended the annual Holiday 

potluck and gift exchange in December, chaired by Jan 

Clark and Gisela Meckstroth. 

Four more MCDS member gardens were approved as AHS 

Display Gardens, bringing the total to 9 MCDS member gardens 

honored with the AHS distinction. We are particularly 

proud of youth member, Nick Lucius, who is the First AHS 

Youth Member to achieve AHS Display Garden status. 

Membership, after annual renewals, now stands at 223, with 

145 of our members also belonging to AHS. 

We look forward to our upcoming activities and invite anyone 

in the Central Ohio area to join us for fun and fellowship. 

May 13 .......................................................................... 

Spring meeting. Plant auction and drawing 2 pm 

Franklin Park Conservatory. 

July 9 ............................................................................ 

Annual MCDS Daylily Show Franklin Park Conservatory 

August 19 ..................................................................... 

Annual MCDS Plant Sale (open to the public) 10 am 

Franklin Park Conservatory. 

November 5 ................................................................. 

Fall meeting and speaker (TBA) 2 pm Franklin Park 

Conservatory December 10 Holiday Potluck and gift 

exchange 6 pm Franklin Park Conservatory 

Grand Valle 

alley Daylily Society 

Correspondent Jan Burd reports that GVDS has made 

another donation to Frederick Meijer Gardens. The 

entrance was changed, and the decision was made to buy 

plants for the island beds. 

Projects at Habitat for Humanity and Gilda's House will 

be the focus for the 2000 growing season, and club members 

are always looking for community projects which will 

showcase daylilies. 

Other activities remain the same, and members still 

maintain the daylily beds at Ronald McDonald House. 

Northshore Iris & Daylily Society 

President Alice Simon reports the following schedule of 

events: 

•April 2 ........................ Spring Fling Buffet and Program 

•May 7 ............................................. Program and Meeting 

•May 27...................................... Sale of Iris and Daylilies 

•May 28................................................ Iris Show and Sale 

•June* ................................................................... Bus Trip 

•July 29 ...................................... Sale of Iris and Daylilies 

•July 30 .......................................... Daylily Show and Sale 

•Aug. 26 ............................................................... Late Sale 

•Aug. 27 ............................................................... Late Sale 

•Sept. 3 ........................................... Program and Meeting 

•Oct. 1 ............................................. Program and Meeting 

•Nov. 5 ......................................... Election and Chili Bash 

*For date of bus trip, contact Alice Simon. 

The Club is in the process of planting a display garden of 

both Iris and Daylilies at Friendship Park in Des Plaines. 

This will be our second year, and we still have quite a bit of 

work to do; but, we should have some good bloom this season. 

Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society 

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Our Calendar for 2000: 

May 19 ........ General Meeting; Gardening Forum by local 

............................................................................... members 

June 23 .... General Meeting; Preparing for the Exhibition 

Show, July 7 ...................................... Speaker Ned Roberts 

July 8 ........................................................ Show, Plant sale 

July 9 ................... Picnic, Garden Judge Workshops I & II 

Aug. 26 ................................................................ Plant sale 

Sep. 17 .................................................. Annual Corn Roast 

Nov. 3 ... General Meeting; speaker: Melanie Vassallo,NY 

Dec. 11 ...................................................... General Meeting 

Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society is sponsoring 

the 2002 AHS National Convention. Hal Rice is 

chairman, Armand DeLisle is co-chair. 

We are working on a theme, and logo that will be 

"catchy." 

Contact Phyllis Cantini at: 

3140 Elder Road North, Orchard Lake, MI 48324-2416 

email: jamescantini@cs.com 

Phone: 248-363-2352 

We are planning to put out the red carpet for the 2002 

National Convention attendees. 

Consider getting or giving an AHS Life Membership 

at this year's bargain price (see front inside cover)! It 

will cost more next year. 

(See A Letter from our Director, page 3.) 




Southwest 

estern ern Indiana Daylily Society 

Feb. 19: 

June 25: 

July 1: 

Oct. 21: 

SPECIAL EVENTS FOR 2000 

Special Meeting with John and Faye Shooter 

from Marietta Gardens in Marietta, North 

Carolina. 

Annual Daylily Exhibition and Sale at Washington 

Square Mall in Evansville, Indiana. 

Bus trip to visit AHS Display Gardens: John 

and Verna Habermel’s Daylily Gardens of 

Floyds Knobs and Joe and Mary Stone’s 

Stoneridge Daylily Garden. 

Special Meeting with Dan Hansen from Lady 

Bug Daylilies in Geneva, Florida. 

Southwest 

estern ern Indiana Daylily Society ty Award ard of Appreciation 

Presented ed to Don and Lea Ann Williams 

Don and Lea Ann Williams were surprised at the SWIDS 

Christmas party with a special Award of Appreciation for 

their efforts in promoting the daylily and the organization. 

Don and Lea Ann were founders of SWIDS in October, 1996, 

along with Arthur and Rae Schroeder and Paul and Judi 

Aucoin. In this short time, SWIDS has grown to over 80 

enthusiastic members. Don was President of SWIDS for the 

first two years and has been sale chairman for the past three 

years. He will again be sale chairman this year. Lea Ann 

has been Secretary since SWIDS began. She was chairperson 

for their first official AHS show in 1999 and accepted 

the responsibility again this year. 

Daylily Society of Southern Indiana 

A new club has formed in Region 2: Daylily Society of 

Southern Indiana. The officers for 2000 are as follows: 

John F. Habermel ......................... President 

Melvin (Joe) Stone ................ Vice President 

Mary Stone, ................................... Treasurer 

Billie Johnson ................................Secretary 

The new club has as a primary goal, education, especially of 

youth, and has affiliated with the Prossor School of Technology. 

The School offers a program in horticulture with emphasis 

on landscaping and gardening. The Daylily Society 

of Southern Indiana has offered to assist students in learning 

the culture of daylilies including ideal soil preparation 

and hybridizing. 

Although only four months old, there are already 32 dues 

paying members. Twelve members of the club are members 

of the AHS. One of the next major projects, according to President 

John Habermel, will be to develop bylaws for the club. 

Club members have donated daylilies to the students for 

use in the School’s greenhouse and for the students to use in 

landscaping projects and will participate with the students 

in daylily plant sales in the future. 

Southwest 

estern ern Illinois Hemerocallis Society 

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President Lu Dickhaut reports that the Southwestern 

Illinois Hemerocallis Society will co-host the Region 2 

Meeting in 2003 with the Madison County Daylily 

Society. She also tells us about the following activities: 

•May 5 ...... Companion Plant Sale (donated by members) 

•June 24 Daylily display and sale in Famous Barr Court, 

.............................................................. Alton Square Mall. 

•July 2 ................................. Garden tours of area gardens 

•Aug. 4 ..................................Daylily auction for members 

•Aug. (not set yet) ...... Picnic at Muenstermann Pavilion, 

.................................... Gordon Moore Park, Alton, Illinois 

•September 9 ............................................. Civic Planting* 

•Dec. 3 ........................................................... Holiday party 

John Habermel, Joe Stone, Rose Lyons, (behind Rose) Lewis 

Lyons, Mary Stone, (behind Mary) Bob Kraft, Lea Ann Williams, 

Don williams, Verna Habermel, Mary Phillips, John Phillips, 

Sandy Russell, Dennis Russell, Judy Heath, Jan Bond, David 

Kirchhoff, David Schaffer, Norman Rainey. 

*Note: Civic Planting is to be in Bethalto in 

appreciation of the large facility they allow us to use 

for our meetings. 



Club Information and 

Events Calendar (continued) 

Madison County Daylily Society 

Pam Hurd is pleased to announced that the 

Southwestern Illinois Hemerocallis Society of 

Granite City has changed its club name to: 

Madison County Daylily Society. 

President: 

618-797-6038 

Vice President: 

618-465-5869 

Treasurer: 

618-452-5866 

Secretary: 

(618-931-7146 

News Correspondent: 

314-353-4839 

Janice Hammers 

Sandy Monroe 

Helen Mihu 

Marianne James 

Pam Hurd 

Scheduled meetings and events are as follows: 

March 2 Regular meeting 

May 4 Daylily auction & meeting 

May 13 Annual Spring Companion plant sale 

June 22 Pre-show meeting place to be announced 

July 1 Annual Daylily Show & Sale @ Alton Square 

Mall Alton Illinois 

August 4 Regular meeting 

October 5 Regular meeting 

December Club Christmas Party To be announced 

All meeting are at the Granite City Eagles on 

Madison Ave. In Granite City, IL. unless otherwise 

noted. Please contact the club correspondent Pam 

Hurd at 314-353-4839 or email her at 

mphurd@earthlink.net for directions to any club 

event or for further information. 

Take Note 

The Madison County DS and the Southwestern Illinois 

Hemerocallis Society will co-host the Region 2 

Summer Meeting from June 27 to 29 in 2003. 

Debbie Gray will be in charge of the Englerth bed, and 

plants should be mailed to her at Meridian Gardens 8209 

Bivens Road, Dorsey Il 62021. Her phone number is 

(618) 377-1481. The daylily bed for the Englerth award 

candidates will be ready so hybridizers can send plants 

late this coming summer or fall. (Please refer also to 

page 41, This and That, from AHS to Regional Topics.) 

Miami Valle 

alley Daylily & 

Hardy Perennial Society 

Shirley Farmer reports that plans for the group 

hopefully will include a trip to Jamie Gossard’s 

and a picnic at her new home (see back insidecover). 

Illinois 

Welcome, New Region 2 Members! 

Jim Banning 

4218 Country Meadow Lane 

Quincy, IL 62301 

Jack W & Dorothy M Barnett 

908 Feldkamp Ave. 

Springfield, IL 62704-2312 

Debbie Brantley 

1 Madrid Rd. 

Murphysboro, IL 62966 

Jenifer Chambers 

49W 592 Hinckley Rd. 

Big Rock, IL 60511 

Mary Clark 

2305 Benderwirt Ave 

Rockford, IL 61103 

Kae Coates 

RR 3 Box 66 

Roodhouse, IL 62082 

William E & Carolyn R Cramlett 

423 Sunrise Lane 

Rockford, IL 61107 

James Daugherty 

2913 Lovis St. 

Franklin Park, IL 60131 

Joan Downs 

491 Silverleaf Blvd 

Carol Stream, IL 60188 

Joann L Drinkwater 

65440 Richmond Ave. 

Westmont, IL 60559 

Rich Eyre 

11618 McConnell Rd 

Woodstock, IL 60098 

Carrie A Finley 

1312 Old Trenton Rd. 

Highland, IL 62249 

Geri A Grzan 

PO Box 55 

Monee, IL 60449 

Burt Hochberg 

1030 W Wrightwood Ave. #B 


Joann Hollensteiner 

935 S Stough 

Hinsdale, IL 60521 

Richard Houser 

200 S Main 

Spaulding, IL 62561 

John Knaus 

2306 Quail Run 

Rockford, IL 61103-1938 

Ron Knop 

501 W Corning 

Peotone, IL 60468 

Andy Kuenstler 

16650 Kennedy Rd. 

Auburn, IL 62615 

Lance Laborde 

96 S Old Creek Rd 

Palos Park, IL 60464 

James T Lipe 

765 Kathleen Rd 

Duquoin, IL 62832 

John Liptak 

1307 Country Glen Lane 

Carol Stream, IL 60188 

Ruth Maves 

606 65th St 

Clarendon Hills, IL 60514-1882 

Cheryl McGugan 

13705 Bell Rd. 

Lockport, IL 60441 

Harry and Rose Mengelkamp 

23648 Double Arch Rd. 

New Douglas, IL 62074 

Loretta Midden 

1608 S 2nd St. 

Springfield, IL 62704-3817 

Christine Moran 

34 W 56th St 

Westmont, IL 60559-2302 

Curtis Richrath 

10519 Sir Durham 

Mapleton, IL 61547 

Steven Sexauer 

403 West Ridge 

Columbia, IL 62236 

Bob Sirtak 

9 Jason Dr. 

Glen Carbon, IL 62034 

Eve Southwood 

2708 A North Southport Ave 


Steve & Bonnie Todd 

1413 Halladay Ct. 

Batavia, IL 60510 

Janet & Victoria Vinke 

23849 Center Rd. 

Frankfort, IL 60423 

Linda Westerberg 

35820 Gray Rd. 

Cluster Park, IL 60481 

Indiana 

John and Carla Bontranger 

23650 Anthony Rd. 

Cicero, IN 46034 

Randy Clark 

12449 S Co Rd 300E 

Muncie, IN 47302 

Keith Cunningham 

8738 East 41st Place 

Indianapolis, IN 46226-5513 

Rose Deig 

3625 Hernden Dr. 

Evansville, IN 47715 

Debbie Dyer 

3968 Crestview Lane 

Terre Haute, IN 47805 

Joan Easley 

205 N College 

Indianapolis, IN 46202 

Wilbert Fitch 

16800 County Line Rd. 

Hebron, IN 46341-9031 

Becky Fuller 

1675 Main St. 

Ferdinand, IN 47532 

Peggy Grcich 

52091 Harvest Dr. 

South Bend, IN 46637 

Julie Gunn 

1984 Davis Dr. 

Franklin, IN 46131 

William Henry 

3415 Hays Ct. 

South Bend, IN 46614-2333 

Susan Hufford 

8328 E 600 N 

Monticello, IN 47960 

Kathleen Jillson 

6147 Cleveland St. 

Merrillville, IN 46410 

Connie Kinkle 

2304 Taylor Ave 

Princeton, IN 47670 

Pauline Knotts 

1421 E 47th St. 

Anderson, IN 46031-2705 

Pam Marlow 

9801 W 113th Ave 

Cedar Lake, IN 46303 

Pat & Dan Minton 

1805 Valley Vista Dr. 

Borden, IN 47106 

Cathy Parks 

7366 Ellis Lake Rd. 

Paragon, IN 46166 

Pat Pitts 

975 Carmen Ct. 

Greenwood, IN 46143-2516 

Marabelle M Reason 

9441 W County Rd 400 N 

Gaston, IN 47342-9797 

Brenda Rock 

1112 S Oden Dr. 

Greenfield, IN 46140 

Vivian D Shields 

8522 Marion Martin Rd 

Charlestown, IN 47111 

Robert M Shuman 

T0688 Lilac Rd. 

South Bend, IN 46628 

Ronnie Stiles 

3310 Quincy Rd. 

Quincy, IN 47456 



Indiana (continued) 

Welcome, New Region 2 Members! (continued) 

Martha Jean Trueblood 

1648 N Quaker Rd. 

Salem, IN 47167 

Marvin Osborne 

838 Oren Ct. 

Gladwin, MI 48624 

Erin Finkes 

130 N 9th St. 

Hebron, OH 43025 

Mandie South 

148 Terrence Dr. 

Westerville, OH 44308 

Jean Marklein 

3919 Dorchester Dr 

Janesville, WI 53546 

John H Watson 

11 Ski Hill Rd. 

Ogden Dunes, IN 46368 

Theodore J Popowitz 

3811 Wedgewood 

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 

Sean Hayes 

3515 Karikal Ct. 

Westerville, OH 43081 

Rebecca K Spratt 

3792 E Western Reserve Rd 

Poland, OH 44514 

Joan Mosling 

291 County Rd FF 

Picket, WI 54964 

Barbara White 

1150 W 146th St. 

Westfield, IN 46074-9609 

Victor Rizzo 

30101 30th St. 

Paw Paw, MI 49079 

Jane & Jerry Higgins 

7775 Cheshire Rd. 

Galena, OH 43021 

Nancy K Widman 

502 Sherwood Lane 

Delta, OH 43515-1042 

Roxanne Neat 

48 S Blackhawk 


Joyce Wozniak 

491 Haldale Dr. 

Carmel, IN 46032 

Teresa Smith 

5100 Allingham Dr. 

White Lake, MI 48383-1445 

Carolyn M. Hughes 

5829 Wildrose Drive 

Akron, OH 44319 

Heidi Willet 

8995 Woodview Dr. 

Cincinnati, OH 45231 

Kay Payne 

2533 Bradford Ave 


George & Linda Wright 

7640 East Hurst Rd. 

Pekin, IN 47165 

Lori Stevenson 

11152 Foley Rd. 

Fenton, MI 48430 

Linda Jenney 

681 Hunt Valley Dr. 

Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 

David G Young 

1622 Parcher Rd. 

Bucyrus, OH 44820 

Jim Rattray 

4224 S Victorian Lane 

Beloit, WI 53511 

Michigan 

Tamra Dauma 

7440 124th Ave 

Holland, MI 49424-9424 

Elbert & Laura Davis 

3296 Will Carleton Rd 

Flat Rock, MI 48134 

Edward & Leslie Diliberto 

11657 Ridge Dr. 

Shelby Twp., MI 48315 

Susan Higgins Dushane 

1205 Wynnstone Dr. 

Ann Arbor, MI 48105 

Dave Evick 

PO Box 9 

Lawrence, MI 49064-0009 

Robert A Ann R Fordeck 

9717 Newburg Rd 

Tecumseh, MI 49286 

Judith Fuller 

5656 N 7th St. 

Kalamazoo, MI 49009 

Janet Groth 

11126 Lange Rd. 

Bridgeman, MI 49106 

Pat Harris 

31034 Cooley 

Westland, MI 48185 

Paul Hartlieb 

1460 E Twinbrook Dr. 

DeWitt, MI 48820 

Nicole Keeton 

523 Parkdale 

Royal Oak, MI 48073 

Connie Kinder Kerr 

3715 River Pines Dr. 

Ann Arbor, MI 48103-9517 

Francine V Knocke 

29443 Cove Creek 

Farmington Hills, MI 48334 

Sharon O’Donnell 

22717 Clairwood St 

St Clair Shores, MI 48080 

Joy Stimac 

232 Pinnacle Dr. 

Lake Orion, MI 48360-2480 

Barb Theniki 

7822 S Croswell 

Newaygo, MI 49337 

Jack Wolfe 

5370 E Washington Rd 

Clare, MI 48617-9612 

Ohio 

Helen Alty 

8508 County Rd 28 

Zanesfield, OH 43360 

Mitchell Anderson 

230 Mulberry St. 

Perrysburg, OH 43551 

Martha Bell 

5974 Boston Rd. 

Valley City, OH 44280-9339 

Shannon Black 

11449 Chardon Rd. 

Chardon, OH 44024-9374 

Cleston Blanton Jr. 

7695 Wethersfield Dr. 

Westchester, Ohio 45069 

Pat & Larry Bullen 

5711 CR 13 

Centerburg, OH 43011 

Thomas F Carroll 

Milagros Girst 

5428 Blue Ash Rd. 

Columbus, OH 43229-3632 

John Chapek 

15217 Woodbrook 

Maple Heights, OH 44137 

Allan Davis 

1500 1 Schrelber Rd. 

Cleveland, OH 44137 

Ronald E and Virginia L Davis 

1855 Perry Lane 

Frankfort, OH 45628-9591 

Marie Dunlap 

7059 Basil Western Rd. 

Canal Winchester, OH 43110 

Allie Jensen 

1030 Clubview Blvd. 

Worthington, OH 43235 

Phyllis Jones 

1701 Hamilton-Richmond Rd. 

Hamilton, OH 45013 

Jennifer Kepler 

4690 Harrisburg Pike 

Grove City, OH 43123 

Tracy Lorence 

3786 Williams 

Brunswick, OH 44212 

Marcia J Marks 

231 N Spring St. 

Bluffton, OH 45817-1109 

Elaine McLean 

323 W Chestnut St. 

Oxford, OH 45056 

Carol Miracle 

10052 Pippin Rd. 

Cincinnati, OH 45231 

Linda Mounts 

2195 Cedar Hill Rd. 

Canal Winchester, OH 43110 

Barbara Oplinger 

96 N 40th St. 

Newark, OH 43055 

Cathy O’Neal 

2835 Windsor Rd. 

Orwell, OH 44076 

Kathleen Proper 

2889 Rohrer Rd. 

Wadsworth, OH 44281-9533 

Sharon Reynolds 

691 Southern Bell Blvd 

Beaver Creek, OH 45434 

Jill Ruschau 

8640 Concord Rd. 

Delaware, OH 43015-9264 

Thomas E Schoen 

c/o Vintage Gardens 

8305 Fremont Pike 

Perrysburg, OH 43551 

Lori Zimmerman 

8225 Taway Rd. 

Radnor, OH 43066 

Wisconsin 

Jena Berg 

N56 W29318 West View Dr. 

Hartland, WI 53029-9202 

Lisa W Cook 

10506 Berberg Rd. 

Amherst, WI 54406 

Kurt Dega 

6798 Dunlap Hollow Rd. 

Mazomanie, WI 53560 

Carol Fredericks 

5846 County Rd PP 

Avoca, WI 53506 

Sally Gleason 

714 Huron Hill 

Madison, WI 53711-2955 

Linda J. Grant 

6600 Bittersweet Rd 

Wausau, WI 54401 

Gretchen Hanneman 

7236 S Loomis Rd. 

Wind Lake, WI 53185 

Marion Johansen 

S 13679 Cty Rd Z 

Mondovi, WI 54755 

Kathleen Karcher 

N9257 Deerpath Rd. 

East Troy, WI 53120 

Roxie Kruschek 

752 Blue Spruce Lane 

Hudson, WI 54016-7673 

Cindy Larry 

N140 W17603 Cedar Lane 

Richfield, WI 53076 

Werner Last 

9788 N West Badger Hgts 

Edgerton, WI 53534 

Sandra J Lemmer 

W162 N9917 Mayflower Rd 

Germantown, WI 53025 

Eleanor Rodini 

1632 Adams St. 

Madison, WI 53711-2140 

Shirley Sanwick 

RT 3 Box 226 

Viroqua, WI 54665 

Song Sparrow Perennial Farm 

12929 Rye Rd E 

Avalon, WI 53505 

Geri Summerbell 

2525 Bradford Ave. 


Barbara Szpek 

W 228 S9305 Big Bend Dr. 

Big Ben, WI 53103 

Matt Wahoske 

W6003 Wangsness Rd. 

Deforest, WI 53532-9702 

Listing reflects 

those new AHS members 

received since 

the end of July 99 up 

to and including the 

listing received dated 

February 23, 2000, to 

be published in the 

Spring/Summer edition 

of the Region 2 

newsletter. 


Region 2 Local Club Listing 


Bay Area Daylily Buds 

Leo Bordeleau, President 

472 Rose Hill Drive 

Oneida, Wisconsin 54155 

920-869-2540 

Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily Society 

Don Bixler, President 

2550 Cherry Ridge Drive 

Fremont, Ohio 43420 

419-355-8116 

daylilyguy@nwonline.net 

Central Illinois Daylily Club 

Michael Fawkes, President 

585 Cherry 

Jacksonville, Illinois 62650 

217-243-7004 

Central Michigan Daylily Society 

Bruce Kovach, President 

5501 S. Red Oak Road 

Beaverton, Michigan 48612-8513 

517-689-3030 

bkovach@dow.com 

Chicagoland Daylily Society 

Kimberly Kaufman, President 

PO Box 581 

Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069 

847-634-2164 

Hosting Region 2 Summer Meeting 2000 

Daylily Society of Southern Indiana 

John Habermel, President 



habermel@theremc.com 

Fort Wayne Daylily Society 

J. Paul Downie, President 

8207 Seiler Road 

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46806 

219-493-4601 

bdownie151@aol.com 

Grand Valley Daylily Society 

Allison Tgiros, President 

1124 Fallingbrook S. E. 

Kentwood, Michigan 49508 

616-455-1099 

Email contact: 

(Jan Burd) dburd6564@juno.com 

Greater Cincinnati Daylily & 

Hosta Society 

John Duke, President 

223 Kearney 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45216 

513-821-9163 

Email: jduke223@aol.com 

Hosting Region 2 Meeting in 2001 

Hoosier Daylily Society Inc. 

James E. Shields, President 

17808 Grassy Branch Road 

Nobelsville,, Indiana 46060 

317-896-3925 

jshields@indy.net 

Indiana Daylily-Iris Society 

Ronald R. Paye, President 

6508 Kellum Drive 

Indianapolis, Indiana 46221 

317-856-6867 

Kalamazoo Area Daylily Society 

J. Gus Guzinski, President 

8814 West H. Avenue 

Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009 

616-375-4489 

Madison County Daylily Society 

Janice Hammers, President 

2140 Harrison 

Granite City, IL 62040 

618-797-6038 

Co-hosting Region 2 Summer Meeting 2003 

Metropolitan Columbus Daylily Society 

Pete Mondron 

411 Ridgedale Drive 

Circleville, Ohio 43113 

740-474-1729 

pjmond@mail.bright.net 

Miami Valley Daylily & Hardy 

Perennial Society 

Shirley Farmer, President 

30 Schell Road 

Wilmington, Ohio 45177 

937-382-7789 

ShirFarmer@aol.com 

North Shore Iris & Daylily Society 

Alice Simon, President 

2516 Scott Street 

Des Plaines, Illinois 60018 

847-827-6541 

Ohio Daylily Society 

Rosemarie Foltz, President 

4418 Dueber Avenue SW 

Canton, Ohio 44706-4558 

330-484-1052 

Prairieland Daylily Society 

Randall Klipp, President 

34 Jordan Drive 

Bourbonnais, Illinois 60914 

815-932-6650 

Southern Indiana Daylily, Hosta, 

Daffodil & Iris Society 

Mark Cline, President 

5289 S. Harrell Road 

Bloomington, Indiana 47401 

812-824-9216 

Southern Michigan Hemerocallis Society 

Phyllis Cantini, President 


Orchard Lake, Michigan 48324-2416 

248-363-2352 

jamescantini@cs.com 

Hosting 2002 AHS National Convention 

Southwestern Illinois Hemerocallis Society 

Lu Dickhaut, President 

PO Box 374 

Carlinville, Illinois 62626 

217-854-3418 

Co-hosting Region 2 Summer Meeting 

2003 

Southwestern Illinois Daylily Club 

Agnes Miller, President 

1560 Johnson Road 

Granite City, Illinois 62040 

618-877-2983 

Southwestern Indiana Daylily Society 

Robert E. Kraft, President 

14601 Old State Road 

Evansville, Indiana 47711 

812-867-3235 

kraft@dynasty.net 

The Daylily Society of Southeast Wisconsin 

Don Coshun 

W266 S5185 River Road 

Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186 

262-547-2408 

dlcoshun@yahoo.com 

The Wisconsin Daylily Society 

Hiram Pearcy, President 

407 Lincoln St. 

Verona, Wisconsin 53593-1529 

608-845-9249 

pearcyj@verona.k12.wi.us 


The Garden of Pat and Chuck Bell, St. Charles, Illinois 

Photo: Rosemary Balazs 


Gisela Meckstroth, Region 2 Editor 

6488 Red Coach Lane 

Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1661 

Nonprofit Organization 

U.S. Postage PAID 

Lancaster, OH 43130 

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