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American Hemerocallis

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AHS Region 6 Texas & New Mexico

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REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT Bridey Greeson P.O. Box 409

Victoria, TX 77902-0409 361-573-7115, FAX 361-576-4900

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REGIONAL PUBLICITY DIRECTOR Donna Peck

96 Homesteads Rd. Placitas, NM 87043-9230

505-867-0353 - [email protected]

NEWSLETTER EDITOR Jim Petty

4609 Osuna Ct. NE Albuquerque, NM 87109-2825


TREASURER Judy Montgomery

5425 Oak Ridge Road Joshua, TX 76058-5226


SECRETARY Marilyn Greenlee

6017 Rue Sophie St. San Antonio, TX 78238-1639


EXHIBITION JUDGES LIAISON Mary Gage

25150 Gosling Road Spring, TX 77389-3225

281-351-8827

GARDEN JUDGES LIAISON Bill Ater

3803 Greystone Dr. Austin, TX 78731-1505


YOUTH LIAISON/BERTIE FERRIS YOUTHFUND CHAIRMAN

Sheri Jehlen 2401 Friar Tuck

Groves, TX 77619 409-962-7110 - [email protected]

W. E. MONROE ENDOWMENT

FUND LIAISON Fred Rice

7735 Riverbend Rd. Beaumont, TX 77713-8460


HISTORIAN/ARCHIVES CHAIRMAN/ WEBMASTER Ray Houston

413 Forest Oaks Lane Lake Jackson, TX 77566-5971


AWARDS & HONORS CHAIRMAN Art Imperial

P.O. Box 1397 Lake Jackson, TX 77566-1397


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Kay Day 105 Saybridge Manor Pkwy. Lake St. Louis, MO 63367 [email protected]

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FEATURED ON THE COVER

HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE

Leon and Paula Payne, 2003

The American Hemerocallis Society, Inc., is a nonprofit organization. Said corporation is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, and especially to promote, encourage and foster the development and improvement of the genus Hemerocallis and public interest therein. The purposes are expressly limited so that AHS qualifies as an exempt organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or the corresponding provision of any future U.S. Internal Revenue Law.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Region 6 Officer News 2-5 My Friend Joyce 5-6 Hems and Hogs 6 Guest Speakers 7 Starting a Daylily Garden 7-8 Photographing Flowers 8-9 Conversion Technique 10 Riverwalk and More in 2004 11 Region 6 Hybridizers 12-13 2004 Region 6 Meeting Registration 14 Region 6 Plant Auction 15 Club News 16-20 Arledge Daylily Garden 21 2003 Region 6 Show Results 22-23 From the Archives 24

WHAT’S HAPPENING INOUR SPRING

NEWSLETTER?

Preview of San Antonio Gardens 2004 Regional Meeting 2004 List of Judges Region 6 Rust Updates

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

May 21-22, 2004 Region 6 Meeting San Antonio Daylily Society San Antonio, TX June 30-July 3, 2004 AHS Convention Greater St. Louis Daylily Society St. Louis, MO June 29-July 3, 2005 AHS Convention Greater Cincinnati Daylily & Hosta Society Cincinnati, OH

Thanks!

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to make this Newsletter a success. Thanks especially to Bridey Greeson and Donna Peck for their contributions of articles and support. Jim Petty

CLUB PRESIDENTS

Please send a copy of your 2004 Club Rosters with

addresses to the Newsletter Editor to assure accurate

updating of our mailing list.

Winter is on the Way

By Bridey Greeson, RVP

As the weather finally turns cooler this week in South Texas, I anxiously await a few Fall introductions to arrive. Of course, this is also a great time to rework your garden beds and add soil conditioner for a productive Spring bloom. Once you finish your Fall garden work, it is easier to wait out the Winter in anticipation of the Spring introduction catalogs arriving to tempt the already obsessed daylily lover like me. Bob Carr should be sending his catalog out this Fall as he did not send one out last year due to bad weather which created a poor seedling crop. A newcomer from Florida, Frank Smith, will also send out his first catalog this Fall.

San Antonio Daylily Society is hard at work preparing for the 2004 Regional. Gardens on this tour will be new to most of our Regional members and one of the gardens is a new AHS Display Garden. Friday night will include a trip to the famous San Antonio Riverwalk area for a boat trip including dinner which is all part of your registration fee. Everyone mark your calendars for May 21-22, 2004.

Speaking of Display Gardens, we have another outstanding garden to add to our Region 6 Display Garden list. The latest newcomer to Region 6 Display Gardens is the Jerry Arledge Daylily Garden located in Richardson, Texas. While I was touring Display Gardens in Dallas and Fort Worth the first week of June, I was able to go by and see Jerry's garden. His garden was beautiful and stock full of great daylilies that were in peak bloom at the time. As Jerry's house is located next to a school, maybe he can entice some youth members to catch the daylily bug.

As Region 6 Historian, Ray Houston, is working towards putting all of the Region 6 Newsletters on a CD or DVD that would be available for a fee to be used by our clubs. In order to help him complete a full collection of Newsletters, he still needs the 1996 Fall/Winter Newsletter. If you have a copy of this issue, please mail it to Ray for the Region 6 historical files. Thank you Ray for the time and hours of work to create such a nice tool for our Region.

Gulf Coast Daylily Society has voted to host the 2006 Regional. Not only have they decided to host the Regional, they will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their club! Hats off to Gulf Coast Daylily Society!

Director's Report Fall/Winter 2003

By Rich Rosen

There is very little new to report from AHS. Last issue I reported on the Summer Board Meeting, and the Fall meeting is still upcoming as I write this. I have tabulated the ballots from the Garden Judges and can report on a few Awards and Honors winners. First, congratulations to Leon Payne who received a much-deserved Junior Citation for his seedling that will be named HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE. Top Honorable Mention vote getters were TANGERINE HORSES (Kaskel 1996), LADY NEVA (Alexander-Moody 1970), BERTIE (E. Salter 1998), ISLESWORTH (P. Stamile

1997), and PAT THORNTON (Glidden 1988). Complete results are posted on the AHS web site and will appear in the Daylily Journal.

I've been out working in the garden, digging, dividing, and pitching. I realized that daylilies that are leaving the garden for whatever reason fall into four different categories, with four different destinations.

1. DOESN'T GROW WELL, NOT PRETTY - These are

plants that should be thrown out, into the garbage. Do not waste fertilizer, water, and energy on them. DO NOT share these plants with others. Why pass on a plant that is going to give someone a poor impression of daylilies?

2. DOESN'T GROW WELL, BUT PRETTY - If you

think it might grow better in another environment, then send it there. For instance if it is dormant, and you know that dormants don't grow well in your climate, then send it to a daylily friend in a colder

climate, like Albuquerque. I send them to my sister-in-law in Minnesota. But don't give them to someone local. Why make them struggle with trying to get it to grow like you did?

3. GROWS WELL, NOT PRETTY - Give it to a local

gardener that is not a serious daylily addict, or save them for club sales to the general public. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and they might like it just fine, as long as it grows well.

4. GROWS WELL, AND PRETTY - Save these for other daylily nuts. Wiggle off a couple fans when you're moving the clump and give them to a friend in your daylily club, or put them in your local club auction. If they are still high dollar value, consider putting them in the Region 6 Auction.

Four different destinations for four different daylilies.

And the best part? It makes space in your garden for something from your want list. Best wishes for a healthy and vigorous new year to you, your family, and your daylilies.

Response to the Poll Data - RPD Report

By Donna Peck

For the past few months I've been Recording the Poll Daily. I thought we would get a terrific response this year because I made an urgent plea at the Region 6 Meeting, wrote all the daylily club Presidents to urge their members, and begged anyone I corresponded with or talked to on the phone to be sure to vote. Out of 807 members I received only 171 ballots. Region 6 had only 21% of our membership vote.

This was the same percentage as last year. So for those who were one of the 171 voters - Many thanks - and for the others - I don't understand it! But hopefully you will be waiting to be the first to vote next year.

This year there was a terrific bonus for five lucky voters. Two of us drew the names from the pile of voters two weeks after the deadline. The lucky winners are: Susan Elder - received COLOR ME HAPPY

(M. Gage 2000) from Mary Gage Helen Reynolds - was the lucky winner of a new cultivar

- DADS REAL BABY by and from Art Imperial. Anne Faggard - received SQUARE DANCER'S

CURTSY (L. Payne 2001) donated by Paula and Leon Payne

Shirlene Holt - was fortunate to receive another beautiful Payne daylily, SOPHIA PAYNE (L. Payne 1998), donated by Mark Carpenter.

Beth Zimpelman - won STENCILED IMPRESSIONS (P. Stamile 2002) which our RVP, Bridey Gleeson, graciously donated.

Now I know you are all reading patiently to see which

daylilies were the winners. Many of the top ten were also winners last year. However a few new ones did squeak through... The WINNERS are: 1. ELIZABETH SALTER (Salter 1990) 35 votes

(1st last year) 2. IDA'S MAGIC (Munson 1988) 22 votes

(tied for 6th last year) 3. ORANGE VELVET (Joiner 1988) 19 votes

(tied for 9th last year) 4. RED VOLUNTEER (Oakes 1984) 18 votes

(5th last year) 5. WIND FRILLS (Tarrant 1978) 17 votes

(tied for 2nd last year) 6. STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER (Stamile 1997)

(NEW this year) 13 votes 7-8. BILL NORRIS (Kirchhoff 1993) 11 votes

(tied for 6th last year) JASON SALTER (E. Salter 1987) 11 votes (tied for 9th last year)

9-10. ED BROWN (J. Salter 1994) 10 votes (NEW this year) MIDNIGHT MAGIC (Kinnebrew 1979) 10 votes (NEW this year) MOONLIT MASQUERADE (J. Salter 1992) 10 votes (4th last year) MY SPECIAL ANGEL (E. Salter 1996) 10 votes (NEW this year) STRAWBERRY CANDY (P. Stamile 1989) 10 votes (tied for 2nd last year)

Runners up: 9 votes - MAGIC CARPET RIDE (tied for 9th last year)

and PEARL HARBOR 8 votes - BLACK AMBROSIA, CAPTAIN CHRIS,

EXOTIC RHYTHM, SABINE BAUR, TOUCHED BY MIDAS

7 votes - ALWAYS AFTERNOON, AWESOME BLOSSOM, BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS, BETTY WARREN WOODS, BRIGHT EYED, PIRATE'S PATCH, WEDDING BAND

6 votes - BARBARA MITCHELL (tied for 6th last year), COLOR ME HAPPY, DONNA PECK, FOREVER RED, MAMBO MAID, SOPHIA PAYNE, TEXAS SHOGUN, TEXAS SUNLIGHT

A bit of Popularity Poll Trivia:

There were 762 cultivars named in our Poll. 491

cultivars received only one vote! ELIZABETH SALTER has been the first place winner the past three years, and on the winner list for the past five years. WIND FRILLS is the oldest cultivar on our top ten list and has been on the Popularity Poll winner list the past 13 years! Anna Rosa Glidden was the first vote that I received this year.

Special thanks go to: Art Imperial, Mary Gage, Mark Carpenter, Bridey

Greeson, and Leon and Paula Payne for donating the "Prize Plants.” They were very generous donating their special cultivars, listed above, to our drawing. Lucille Wynne, President of the East Texas Daylily Society, Margie Dumesnil President of the Gulf Coast Daylily Society, Steve Wingfield President of the San Antonio Daylily Society and Mary Gage for collecting and sending me many ballots from their club AHS members. I hope all Presidents will do this next year.

My next step is to add some of the winning cultivars to

my garden. The only one I don't have out of the top ten is STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER. So I might have to go down to a few of the runner-ups that I don't have, such as MAGIC CARPET RIDE, PEARL HARBOR and SABINE BAUR. Thanks again for voting and letting our members know which cultivars will grow the best and prettiest in our Region 6 gardens. Now is the time to put them on your "wish list." One final reminder:

Next year, Remember to Pick the Daylilies you like best.

Region 6 Exhibition Judges Report

By Mary Gage, Liaison

As the end of the year approaches please keep in mind

that AHS dues must be paid for 2004 on time. That means by December 31. We had a few problems last Spring when some judges were dropped from the list for non-payment of dues, actually in some cases they were just late. This created a lot of trouble for Flower Show Chairpersons who thought that certain judges were eligible and it only came to light when the AHS Exhibition Chairman discovered that the judges in question had been dropped from the list. Fortunately, we were able to get reinstatement for some. It is the responsibility of each judge to see that this does not happen. This applies equally to Senior Judges, Junior Judges, Students-In-Training and Honorary Judges.

Clinic I may be offered at anytime of the year using slides, not just when daylilies are in bloom. Twenty-four consecutive months of AHS membership is the main requirement for eligibility to begin judges training. Owning a copy of the latest handbook, Judging Daylilies, is also required, and is available from Jimmy R. Jordan,

Publication Sales, address and order blank in the back of each Daylily Journal. Prospective students should study Chapters C-l and C-2. We no longer need to wait until the next calendar year to take Clinic II. Any club could sponsor a Clinic I this Winter or next Spring and

Students-In-Training would be eligible for Clinic II in San Antonio. I would suggest that a Clinic held by March would allow sufficient time for Kevin Walek, AHS Judges Chairman, to grade the exam and certify the persons as Students-In-Training. Contact me, as your Liaison, or go directly to Peggy Jeffcoat, AHS Judges Education Chairperson, to get started with Clinic plans. We are holding Clinic I on November 1, 2003 in Port Arthur, with three students expected. Clinic III (Refresher) was held in Albuquerque this Summer.

Congratulations to Nolanne Chang on winning the Christine Erin Stamile Youth Award. With the award goes a life time membership in AHS and now she will be spared the necessity of remembering to pay AHS dues each year.

At our 2004 Region 6 Meeting in San Antonio we should have perhaps the largest Clinic II in a long time. This is really great because we have lost a number of judges in recent years. Of course, we will also have Clinic I for beginners and Clinic III for those who need the Refresher Clinic. As of today I do not know the exact time for each Clinic, but they will be listed in the Newsletter with the schedule for the 2004 Region 6 Meeting.

My Friend Joyce - By Sharon Umphress

When we hear the name TEXAS SUNLIGHT, many of us think of Joyce Lewis, the hybridizer of this great daylily, but to me the name actually symbolizes the man himself. Joyce has been an inspiration to our youth members, new daylily enthusiasts,

e has been the RVP, RPD, and Treasurer of Region 6 AHS. He has also won the Regional Service Award, is a Charter Member of the East Texas Daylily Society, and past President of Daylily Growers of Dallas. Joyce helped start the Albuquerque club and the now defunct Athens Area Hemerocallis Society. Joyce has served this Region for many years, in fact if there was a job out there, you can bet he has done it.

and judges alike for many years. H

Joyce once said when he was RVP, "he was here to serve and not to lead.” Well, you can see that he is a man of his word, but if he had to lead, I am sure he always was kind in his leadership. I know from my friendship with Joyce that he always sees the good in any situation or person. He told me once he had never seen an ugly daylily or an ugly woman. I am sure this is what makes Joyce so popular with all women. Whenever you see Joyce at a daylily function, you will see the women flocking around him. He just can't help it. The man draws them like flies. It could be his sweet and kind nature that keeps them coming back or maybe his wealth of knowledge. I am

betting it is his charming courteous ways. Joyce usually has a smile for everyone and I can count on one hand the times I have seen him upset. When he has been out of sorts it is usually a situation he can diffuse with one of his famous smiles.

Joyce has been an encouragement to me in my hybridization program. Even when I have some "ugly" daylilies he tells me not to give up. He is still hybridizing and inspiring us all with the things he is working with. His small doubles and tetraploid conversions are stunning and hopefully he will register some of them soon. Well, as soon as he can find them, as he often remarks. If you have ever been to Joyce's you will know that might not be an understatement. However, even though the daylilies are hard to find it is much like looking for Easter Eggs, what a nice surprise when you find the treasure. His treasures

include such names as WOMPUS CAT, ALBUQUERQUE MEMORY, SANDIA SUNRISE,

KATISUE, and SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP (which he donated to all attendees of the Dallas Regional Meeting).

Many of his cultivars have won awards in Region 6 and other Regions, as well. That ain't too shabby for a peanut farmer from Murchison, Texas.

Joyce has not always been a peanut farmer, though. He was a decorated pilot during World War II, and after the war he owned a plane with his brother J. D. He has been a School Board member and supported desegregation when it was unpopular in the South. He has been a District Champion Farmer, Henderson County Farm Bureau President and was the Class President in his junior year in high school; even then, he was a busy man.

He is the father of five children, nine grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Joyce is truly one of the most blessed and well-loved men on this earth. He does bring the sunlight with him wherever he goes and he is one of the bright spots of my day, just knowing he is there. I know Joyce will be up early tomorrow morning ready to get to work long before I even have my coffee. He is, after all, a busy man, and there are daylilies to take care of.

Hems and Hogs! - by Bridey Greeson

In the past year, I experienced two firsts. In February, 2003, my son showed his first pig at the Victoria County 4-H show. Three months later, I showed my first daylilies in the San Antonio Daylily Society Show. Looking back, I have realized that if you can show a pig, you can show a daylily.

The best time to buy a daylily and a pig is in the Fall months. You want both to be from great parents and they have similar purchase prices as they are new introductions. Soil preparation is critical once the purchase arrives at your home/barn. I used a Clorox bleach solution to sanitize the barn pens and sanitize the fans of my new daylilies - you can use the solution for soaking the daylilies as the solution to wet down the pen and save time and money. During the months from November until January, you can pretty much rest and not worry about your fan/pig. Once February arrives, proper maintenance of your "investment" is critical to a successful show experience.

There are differences in show dates, and therefore, the feeding practices will differ due to the time of the year. With your pig, you will feed it such things like raw eggs, wet oatmeal, stride-n-flex, paylean and pig feed that is hand mixed (yuck) and fed twice a day. You will also weigh your pig on a scale once a week and then every few hours the day or two before the show. While you are trying to convince the little porker to get in the scale, your daylily is nice and quiet in the garden and doesn't require any feed like raw eggs.

Peak bloom for the pig should be the day of the show - just like the daylily. And, amazingly enough, pig farmers refer to a great show pig as having great bloom on top. If the pig is not fresh and blooming, you will lose points in the ring. The same theory goes for your show daylilies. You

don't want to arrive at the show with a worn out bloom that is past its prime.

Show day arrives for both and you bring the freshest “bloomer” that you can find to show that day. If you weigh your pig that morning and it is too fat (over 270 lbs.) or too light (under 230 lbs.), you need to have a spare pig to show that day. If your best blooming daylily doesn't open the morning of the show, you have to go with a different choice for the show.

Even though showing a daylily or pig is hard work, it can be a lot of fun. If you beat your best friend at the daylily show with the same cultivar, you can rub it in by signing your e-mails with "Inner Destiny" champ. And pigs are so cute that they are worthy of e-mailing pictures to friends. When my son named one of the girl pigs, "Bob,” I had to e-mail Bob Carr and show him the picture of “Awesome Bob.” The picture of "Bob,” the pig, that I sent depicted the pig sitting on her rear end with her snout covered in dirt. He thought it was a picture of the registered daylily cultivar, AWESOME BOB. Wish I could write what his response was to the picture, but it might offend delicate ears. I will say that I had tears from laughter running down my checks after I received his response.

Have to run and plant my new Fall introduction daylilies in the garden. After I finish planting, I will go by the barn and feed the new pigs that just arrived. They are both girls, but I convinced my son to name one of the pigs with a boy's name - Rich sounds like a good name to me!

Guest Speakers Enhance Club Meeting - By Kay Day

For many of us gardens and daylilies serve as a refuge from the rapid-paced world. With our daylily friends we share a common bond. The club meeting becomes a place to enjoy our passion. A guest speaker enhances our knowledge and enlarges our world. Unfortunately, either the club or the speaker may often be disgruntled with the arrangement - or lack of arrangements. After discussion with a number of the speakers, here is a little protocol for inviting a speaker. Protocol is the code prescribing adherence to correct etiquette or simply stated, good manners.

While the initial invitation may be informal, simply a phone call or in person, the conversation should include the day and date of the meeting, as well as the time allocated to the speaker - usually 25 to 45 minutes. Once you ascertain that the speaker is available, advise the financial arrangements. If the club is paying for transportation, determine whether the speaker or the club will make the flight booking if air travel is involved. Expect to pay for airport parking. If the speaker is driving, the cost of gas is the normal reimbursement, although some speakers expect a mileage based payment in line with the IRS guideline, which is currently around $0.31 per mile. Most guest speakers are pleased to have the opportunity to stay with a club member, but others will want a hotel room. Remember that they are the guest and try to accommodate them. The cost of meals while away

from home should certainly be covered. Therefore the expected expenses travel cost, rooming accommodation, and meals should plan in any club budget.

A speaker fee is optional and may be paid in lieu of other expenses.

It is highly advisable to send, via e-mail or snail mail, a note recapping the date, time of the meeting, and the time allocated for the speaker, with the financial arrangement, as soon as possible after the initial invitation. This will allow the speaker to book the meeting on their calendar. About a month prior to the meeting the club Program Chair or President should call the speaker to determine that the speaker has made the necessary travel plans and determine any audio/visual requirements. At this time the exact arrival time and specific plan should be communicated. Again, a follow-up in writing is advisable.

If the speaker has made their own travel arrangements, ask them to bring receipts so that the Treasurer can reimburse them while they are in town, rather than later. In all cases reimbursement for all agreed upon expenses should be made within two weeks of the meeting.

While this is a simply a protocol for inviting a quest speaker and the requisite follow-up, it is not all inclusive or set in concrete. It will, however, help eliminate miscommunications or lack of information on both sides of the arrangement. Enjoy the Winter and make plans to enhance your club experience with a guest speaker.

Starting a Daylily Garden - Part III

In the past two issues of the Newsletter we have continued an article about what daylilies a new daylily gardener should begin growing. We asked for daylilies that "are easy and prolific growers in our Region and cost no more than $7.00." Then we asked for one cultivar that a new gardener could "splurge on." This idea started with Jim Petty and Donna Peck when we were asked in our plant sales by new growers and new members which daylilies we would recommend. Sharon Umphress and her mom, Elizabeth Hoover, e-mailed their suggestions to us this month.

Liz Hoover's list included these comments: TEXAS SUNLIGHT (J. Lewis 1981) - a 3 inch gold with

high bud count, branching and it is fertile JASON SALTER (E. Salter 1987) - has a very long

bloom season and repeats several times. Note: This is on the top ten Popularity Poll list.

PURE AND SIMPLE (J. Salter 1993) - an excellent 5.5 inch orange sherbet self and makes Liz happy!

HIGHLAND LORD (Munson 1983) - is the best red double and looks like it is on fire

BARBARA MITCHELL (Pierce 1984) - is a 6 inch pink self and a good performer

WINEBERRY CANDY (P. Stamile 1990) - a 4.75 inch orchid with purple eye and is a good performer

Liz's splurges are: TEXAS SHOGUN (J. Lewis 1984) - a 3 inch red with

high bud count and is good for hybridizing - cost is $11.00

PIRATE'S PATCH (J. Salter 1991) - is a pretty 6 inch ivory cream with a purple eye and a very good flower - costs about $13.00 - a bargain for such a lovely daylily!

Sharon Umphress favorites are listed with her comments: CODIE WEDGEWORTH (Wilson 1986) - is 6 inches and

the best performing pink

SCATTERBRAIN (Joiner 1988) - a beautiful light peach double and always takes the sun.

LAUREN LEAH (Pierce 1983) - an always perfect 6 inch creamy pink blend

ELVES (Romine 1979) - a miniature lemon self which repeats and keeps on going - good for miniature hybridizing

ALBUQUERQUE MEMORY (Lewis 1983) - is an apricot 3 inch flower with a long growing season

HARMONIC CONVERGENCE (Romine 1987) - is a orange gold polychrome with pink midribs. Sharon says "what color and it glows!"

WHIRLING FURY (Parker 1969) - a 6 inch yellow green blend that is always a show winner and great in the garden, too.

HUNTER’S TORCH (Kirchhoff 1988) - is a great 31 inch tall with 6.5 inch red blooms - is always blooming and a great repeat.

MALAYSIAN MONARCH (Munson 1986) - a great Munson 6 inch purple with Munson's typical white throat area.

Sharon's small splurge is: BABY BOOMER (Herrington 1996) - a 3.5 inch yellow

with purple eye and is a performer that blooms way too much not to like - cost is $13.00.

We are still open to other suggestions. But now with the

Popularity Poll released, new gardener's should have lots of daylilies with which to start their gardens.

Good Luck!

Photographing Flowers - By Art Bova

Flowers are some of the most interesting subjects in nature because of their form, array of colors, and foliage. A photographer needs a beautiful subject in order to make an interesting and intriguing photograph. Flowers provide it!

Everyone should try to capture the beauty of their gardening efforts since the photograph can be displayed year-round when the flowers are not blooming. With enlargements available at common outlets, a photograph can easily be enlarged, matted, and framed for a low cost and serve as a beautiful reminder. How do you do it?

Let's look at what the judges of photography look at when evaluating a good photograph. They look for impact, composition and technique. Impact is the overall impression that a photograph brings to your eye when you look at it. Composition is the arrangement within the photograph of the flower and how it is personified according to the rules of interest. The technique is the technical aspect of photographing - having a sharply focused subject, proper exposure of the lighting condition and whether you want everything in the background focused to bring out the main subject or out of focus to offer a contrast and to highlight the main subject.

There are three basic kinds of photographs that you can make of garden flowers. The first photograph is of the garden itself. The second is a photograph showing the flower in addition to the foliage. The third and most beautiful one, is a close-up of the flower itself. Let's look at all three.

The garden picture is a tough one. You want to have three areas of focus in your photograph. You want the foreground which is the bottom of the picture, the middle area which is the medium distance items in the picture, and the background which is the most remote area in the photo and probably the top of the picture.

Let's start in reverse order with the background. You have to make a decision whether you want the background in focus by focusing with equal distance in automatic cameras to all areas of the photo or selecting f16 in manual or automatic cameras or a narrow depth of field of f5.6 when you want the background blurred. When taking a full garden picture, most people want the background in focus, and you should make sure that everything is in focus and is equidistant. Surprisingly, most full garden shots should not have the sky in the picture, since the sky is normally quite bright compared to the dark, rich foliage in the picture. Film can not take a

wide range between a very bright sky and a very dark foliage. Please move when taking a picture to make sure that you do not get in items that you do not want to focus on or that are distractions such as dead trees, garbage and garbage cans, and items that you do not want to highlight in your picture.

The middle area is probably the most difficult area because some times you will have a middle area that is interesting and you want to include, and other times it will be only the transition area between the foreground and the background. Nevertheless, you must position yourself so that your picture shows it in plain view with a lot of detail or has it out of focus when you use it only as a transition. This will require you to move around and position yourself to make your decision.

The most interesting part of your picture has to be the foreground. It is essential that your foreground be in focus, be interesting, be at an angle or show an "S" curve, and have all of the foliage vibrant and not brown or decaying. This is the area that the viewer will first look at in your photo and decide whether to look towards the rest of the picture. It must capture them. Therefore, make sure that your photo entices them with the color, the form and beauty of your flower and its foliage and surroundings.

The second kind of photo is the one of the flower and its foliage. This is probably one of the hardest ones to take because your foliage must be perfect and you need to create an interesting composition. When you look at all the great paintings, there is form, substance and contrast. This needs to be in the photo even though you are somewhat limited in this kind of photo. You need to come in at an angle so that the flower creates interest along with the backdrop of the foliage. The foliage needs to be green with no brown spots and offer a beautiful contrast or a pleasant transition from the flower. You literally have to dance around until you find the best composition in order to take this shot.

The last and most important kind of photo is the flower up-close. This requires a close-up focusing lens on an interchangeable film camera or the ability of your digital

camera to focus in closely. Here you have a lot of creative opportunities. You can come in at an angle to make sure the stigma, the anther and filament are in focus. It is very important that you have the pistil and stamen in focus. The petal and sepal can be in focus or out of focus, depending on what you are trying to show in your photo. If you want an ethereal photo, you probably want the petal and the sepal out of focus. However, at other times, you will want to have the petal and sepal in focus and have the items in the background out of focus.

You want to emphasize the color of the flower and the transitions of color in the flower. You want to be sure that you bring out the texture of the flower and you can do this by having light in the background seeping through the petal or you can have side-lighting. Orchids and the inner parts of an Iris are particularly photogenic for this kind of photography. You should vary the light that you apply. By changing your light and varying the intensity of your light, you will see a lot of interesting effects. In photography terms, this is called bracketing, where you change your exposure by half-stops.

As I mentioned above, flower photography is best photographed with close-up lenses. These are available as a separate lens for interchangeable lens 35 mm cameras or on high-end point-and-shoot film cameras and on most digital cameras with variable focusing. The best kind of film to use is not Kodak film, but Fuji film. Also, the most radiant colors are captured on slide film. However, the most forgiving film is print film.

With digital development labs, your photographs can be easily changed and/or manipulated to bring out the best aspects and to cover-up errors and omissions. Work with your lab no matter where they are located and you will be surprised how they can turn an ugly picture into a radiant picture with some minor adjustments.

I hope that I have illustrated some of the techniques that you might want to apply in taking flower photographs.

Conversion Technique - By Jack Carpenter

I have never used anything other than Colchicine (DMSO has sometimes been used) to effect conversion. The use of DMSO did not seem to cause greater amounts of conversions. I am simply not familiar with the several other things I have heard that have been used. My method is to pot plants into 1 to 3 gallon containers (set plants very high in the containers to allow for good air circulation and have soil adequately removed around crowns so that crowns are ABOVE soil level) and are in an established and healthy condition prior to treatment. The potting medium should be well drained and never subject to being wet and "muddy" in nature. I have generally done my conversion work in the first half of January. The procedure is to bring plants into active growth for two weeks or more prior to time of treatment. I do treatments in a greenhouse that is heated and that allows 85% or more of sunlight passage. Temperature during treatment in the greenhouse ranges from about 60 degrees at night to around 75 in the daytime. Fans which give air circulation in the greenhouse are used. A cross-sectional cut is made across and as close to the crown as possible without removing the growth tip central area that arises from the center of the crown. The cut should be made in as flat/level or horizontal plane as possible and as close as possible to the crown/root area, WITHOUT REMOVING the center tip of concentric leaf basal growth markings that surrounds the tiny tip growth area in the center of the crown. Following this horizontal cut I make five or six pie shaped vertical cuts into the crown- cuts that do not cut all the way into the center tip of growth, but rather as close as possible to the center without actually cutting the center growth area. This type of vertical cutting into the crown is simply to give added ease of the Colchicine to penetrate well into the area from which the center grows and arises. These vertical cuts also allow for the bulging expansion that will soon occur from the activity of the Colchicine on the crown area. Once I have made the cut, a cotton ball is dipped in a 0.23% to 0.25% of Colchicine solution and placed on the crown surface and pressed gently several times to ensure good surface contact between the cotton ball and cut crown surface. An opaque plastic cup is inverted over the treated crown to cut down on evaporation of the Colchicine. The crown is checked from three to six times per day and with an eyedropper additional Colchicine is added to always keep the cotton ball well saturated. The treatment continues for three to five days (total) after which time cotton balls are removed and the entire crown is bathed with a disinfectant and fungicide mix. This fungicidal/dilute alcohol/dilute bleach (whatever you wish to use) mix may be applied again in a week. Fans to

circulate air around the treated crowns are in my opinion beneficial.

POST TREATMENT care is necessary and of CRITICAL importance as crown rot may occur. Always carefully observe for beginnings of rot or disease attack. Guard against fungus gnat infestations. The rest of the process is now a matter of time and observation. Scraping or peeling old dead tissue from the crowns may be necessary as the plant crown expands and progresses following treatment over the next few months. CAUTION: Removal of dead or decaying tissue must be done with gloves or instruments and never with bare hands.

Observations: I never check the foliage (other than by touch) as the foliage layer or zone may have been effected, but not the pollen zone or layer. The effect on the bloom is the only thing important to me for my purposes of having the pollen in tetraploid form for usage within the tetraploid program.

NOTE: In my experience in treatments in January some plants have put up scapes within three to five months from date of treatment giving the chance for checking pollen size to determine ploidy. Tetraploid pollen will be half again larger in size than diploid pollen. Conversion percentage for me has ranged from 10 to 30 percent of things treated. REMEMBER, COLCHICINE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE CARCINOGENIC PROPERTIES AND GREAT CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO AVOID SKIN CONTACT WITH IT.

I hope you will have some degree of success with your treatments. I purchase my Colchicine from SIGMA CHEMICALS in St. Louis, MO.

Get ready for the "Riverwalk and More in 2004"

Region 6 Spring Regional San Antonio, Texas

Mark Carpenter/Bridey Greeson - Co-Chairs

Mark your calendars right now! DO NOT hesitate! You will NOT want to miss what promises to be a tremendous Regional in San Antonio in 2004. The "Riverwalk and More in 2004" Region 6 Spring Regional will be 2 days of jam packed excitement and action!

Starting Friday morning, May 21, we will have the San Antonio Daylily Society annual flower show at the Rolling Oaks Mall in Northwest San Antonio. This glorious location has been a huge success the past 2 years and promises to be even better this year. In addition to the flower show, SADS will once again present the "People's Choice" Awards for favorite daylily and favorite Tricolor design as voted on by the public!

Official registration will begin at 1:00 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel located in North San Antonio right off Loop 410 and Blanco Road. Garden Judges Workshops and Exhibition Judges Clinics will be held Friday afternoon.

Friday night, all of you interested in attending will be treated to a bus ride downtown where we will take a cruise down the San Antonio Riverwalk, while dining on

a Mexican dinner. I imagine Margaritas will be available as well!

Saturday morning, we will tour 5 area gardens before heading back to the Hilton for the afternoon auction. Folks, I can tell you RIGHT NOW this auction will include daylilies to die for! Some of the most wanted daylilies in the country have already been committed to this event, and it is one you dare not miss out on!

Saturday evening we will have dinner and combine our business meeting with dessert! This "mini-Regional" idea should make it a more affordable event for everyone by eliminating one night at the hotel. Our hope is to make this the most highly attended Regional in years! All of you who have attended SADS Fall Regional can attest to the great job the host city does on these events, and we can promise you this Regional will top them all!

DON'T MISS THIS ONE! It will be talked about for years to come. After all, it's not just daylilies, it's the "Riverwalk and MORE in 2004!"

On the lighter side What Happens When ...?

• What happens when you confuse the proportions

while mixing your Hooker's Formula? You get some nice blooms, but they all seem to smell a little fishy.

• What happens when your dog digs up your seedling

that really approaches blue? I don't want to comment, but that dog would be safer hiding out behind a Vietnamese restaurant.

• What happens when you cross ARABIAN MAGIC with ISRAEL'S SUNSET? You baby it along for what seems like an eternity and then the seed pod explodes and wipes out everything in that bed.

• What happens when your car gives up the ghost just

after the new round of daylily catalogs arrive. You have a lot of winning blooms, but you have to walk to the show.

2004 AHS Region 6 Meeting

Hilton San Antonio Airport Hotel May 21-22, 2004

Hosted by: San Antonio Daylily Society

Meeting Registration Fee: $95 per person

Registrar: Marilyn Greenlee (210) 520-9199, E-mail: [email protected] Hotel and Meeting Location: Hilton San Antonio Airport Hotel, 611 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, Texas 78216. Phone number for hotel is (210) 377-4602. Reservations toll free are 877-377-7227. Please mention the American Hemerocallis Society Region 6 Meeting for a room group rate of $95.00 per night. Be sure and make your hotel reservations for this event before May 1, 2004.

Flower Show: Friday, May 21, 2004 Location: Rolling Oaks Mall, 6909 N. Loop 1604 East, San Antonio, Texas Clinics* Exhibition Judges Clinic I 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 21

Exhibition Judges Clinic II 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 21 Refresher Clinic 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 21 Garden Judges Workshop I 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 21 Garden Judges Workshop II To be determined for May 21 (Note: The times for these Clinics may change.) *** $5.00 registration fee per Clinic, payable at the Clinic

Evening on the Riverwalk and dinner by boat: Friday, May 21, at 7:00 p.m.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Official Registration Form

AHS Region 6 Meeting in San Antonio, Texas May 21-22, 2004

Name: Please indicate # to attend: Phone: ( ) Address: City: State: Zip: Judges Clinic I E-mail: Judges Clinic II Refresher Clinic Registration Fee: $95 per person Garden Judges Workshop 1 Make Check Payable to: SADS Garden Judges Workshop 2 Mail to: Marilyn Greenlee, 6017 Rue Sophie St., San Antonio, Texas 78238-1639 Phone: (210) 520-9199

Region 6 Plant Auction

After the garden tours on Saturday, May 22, 2004, we will have the annual Region 6 plant auction at the Hilton Hotel. We have already received commitments for some daylilies that are not currently available on the market and we are very excited to have them available for purchase. If you have a plant that you would like to donate to this auction, please bring it with you to the Regional or send it with a friend. We strongly urge donors to provide a 35 mm slide of their donation (please print your name on the slide) to be shown as the donation is being auctioned. When you see a slide of a daylily, it makes all the difference to the buyers to be able to see what will be blooming for them if they buy the plant.

All proceeds of this auction provide the majority of funds necessary to keep Region 6 running smoothly and to continue to provide the Newsletters. Look in your beds during the Winter months and send this form to me with your donation. Thank you in advance for your generous support of the Region. Mail form to: Bridey Greeson P.O. Box 409 Victoria, TX 77902-0409 Phone: (361) 573-7115 Fax: (361) 576-4900 E-mail: [email protected]

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REGION 6 LIVE AUCTION DONATION FORM Mail To: Bridey Greeson, P.O. Box 409, Victoria, TX 77902-0409 Cultivar Name Description Slide? Plant/Card 1. Y N P or C 2. Y N P or C 3. Y N P or C Donor Name: Address: City, State, Zip:

What's Happening from Around the Region

Albuquerque Daylily Society

By Anna Mulkey

One of our States is Missing is the heading for the back page feature in our state magazine, The New Mexico Magazine. It is a humorous page filled with several anecdotes each month on what or where the rest of our nation thinks New Mexico, or one of our cities, is. We consistently baffle people. Periodically we go South of the border, go further West or vanish all together. The post office, telephone companies, and numerous newspapers get our locations terribly confused from time to time. Now I would like to add my bit to this headline: One of our States is Missing Rain.

In July, our flower show still managed to shine nicely despite the missing water. We were also delighted when two of the show judges came down from Colorado for the show. We are always pleased to have out-of-state judges, but this couple, Betty and Ned Roberts, have a history with us here in Albuquerque, which used to be their home. It was Betty's membership in Petal Pushers Garden Club back in the late 1960-70s that was responsible for daylilies coming to our city. Her mother-in-law who lived in Alabama, sent Betty several fans. Betty was generous to other members, and in Petal Pushers flower shows, these blooms shone. The public became interested. Finally this garden club sponsored a Daylily Regional Meeting here, and shortly after that event, the Albuquerque Daylily Society was formed. We also knew Ned was very interested in Spider daylilies while others ignored their gangly form. He began his early work with them here in Albuquerque. Their presence for our show was a fun reunion. We are also grateful to our Texas judge, Binion Amerson; and Arizona judges, Gene and Eloise Koonce.

In August, we toured several gardens, one being the University House garden, where it was obvious those beds had plenty of plants for the late August home-dug plant sale to the public. Those daylilies were fat and flourishing and obviously taking up more space than had been planned. We made plans to dig. Then in Barbara Sharpiro's garden we found a true demonstration of how xeriscaping can exist alongside a carefully calculated water-requiring "normal" garden (with daylilies, of course.) Her garden was well planned. Barbara understands "watering.” We expect she will be our "water sage" next year as we continue to integrate more completely, into our high desert environments.

Austin Hemerocallis Society

By Nancy Reuter

Greetings from Austin, Texas! The Austin Hemerocallis

Society is back in full swing after a two month break this Summer. In August, we continued our educational emphasis this Fall by inviting George Altgeldt from Geogrowers to give a very interesting program on soil. We learned about the importance of taking care of our soil and our lawns, all about compost, mulches, and the wonders of decomposed granite and granite sand.

In September, we had a really fun, "hands-on" meeting. Beth Zimpelman and Velia Sanchez-Ruiz gave a demonstration on dividing and planting of daylilies. They had a very large clump of DEVONSHIRE, an empty bus tray, a couple of empty pots, a bucket of granite sand, and a bucket of soil loaded with humus. Every club member received a plant after the demonstration.

October brought our annual daylily auction. It's always the most fun meeting of the year, and attendance was high. We had ordered double fans of daylilies from a grower in California. Members received a single fan of the daylily they ordered, and the other fan was put up for auction. It was fun watching members outbid each other.

In November, we'll learn about rainwater collection, and in December we look forward to our annual Christmas potluck dinner.

Cypress Creek Daylily Club

By Catherine Lola (Bailey) Neal

The Cypress Creek Daylily Club held their meeting

September 28, 2003, at Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens. The club enjoyed the refurbished meeting room. President Robert Valenza presided at the business meeting.

The program was a slide show of the gardens at AHS National Convention (Mid-Carolina Society and Piedmont Daylily Club) and the Region 6 Meeting hosted by the Lone Star Daylily Society. Jean Lewis and Mary Gage presented the show.

It was suggested that all readers of the Houston Chronicle write a personal letter of appreciation for the garden calendar of events they post and the garden articles they publish.

The club held a plant sale November 15, 2002, at Klein Oak High School from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The October meeting's program was presented by Donna Fay Hilliard on the topic, "Garden Therapy - Alternative Gardening."

Daylily Growers

of Dallas By Anne Simpson

Over the Summer we lost three outstanding members:

Wynelle Clifton, Joan Dodge, and Alyne Kelley. Wynelle was President of the Club in 1989. The Wynelle Clifton Memorial Daylily Garden is being established in her honor in Kiest Park, South Dallas. Joan was Treasurer in 2002; in lieu of flowers the family asked that donations be made to the Joan Dodge Memorial Scholarship Fund. To date, more than $7,000 has been collected for this scholarship fund.

For most of July and all of August, the Daylily Growers of Dallas took the normal Summer break. Our Fall meetings started on September 18 with Ned Roberts, noted daylily hybridizer from Colorado and Florida, who spoke to the Club about his Unusual Form and Spider daylily hybridizing program. Club members vied with each other for Ned's plants in the auction following his presentation. On the Friday before the meeting, Binion Amerson hosted a reception and dinner for Ned. Some 35 Club members and guests attended.

On October 4, we successfully held our Fall Daylily Plant Sale chaired by Jerry Arledge. Proceeds from the Sale will go to the Daylily Growers of Dallas Scholarship Fund. We will elect new officers at our October meeting which will feature Joe Conrad and the always fun daylily bingo. In November, we will see a color slide show featuring daylilies seen at the 2003 AHS Region 6 Meeting in League City.

For December, we will hold a social with the annual Pea Patch Party - a pot-luck holiday luncheon.

East Texas

Daylily Society By Sharon Umphress

The East Texas Daylily Society is planning their annual Fall sale. October 11th and many of the members have been working overtime to promote this sale. The Ways and Means Chairman, Andie has outdone herself with the great daylilies she was able to get for this sale.

The club took two trips this Summer to outstanding gardens that are little known in this area. Melvin McConnell's garden near Marshall, Texas, and Lee Causey's in Flower Mound had everyone excited. During the McConnell garden visit, the club was able to visit Jean Barnhart's and the ever popular Lily Farm owned by Jack Carpenter.

Our club President Don Gill had to step down due to health reasons and Lucille Wynne the First Vice President took over for the remainder of the year. The club will be electing officers at the November meeting for next year. The Daylily Garden at the Tyler Rose Garden has been a big drawing card for many

new daylily enthusiasts and the club is planning on reworking it next Spring and putting in many newer varieties.

The Flower Show will have two Co-Chairmen for 2004, Andie Rathbone and Loretta Wilson. This will be a first for both of them, but we are all sure they will do a wonderful job. They always make everything seem so easy and flawless whenever they take on a new endeavor. The club had a program presented by Hooker Nichols of Dallas and we all learned a lot about Iris and Daylilies. Hopefully we will be able to send as many club members as possible to the Regional Meeting in San Antonio this next year.

Golden Spread Daylily Society

By Linda Leopold

This year we have increased our membership. Betty Palmer, Genna Mayberry, and Andy Harris joined this Spring. We appreciated their help during the two days of digging and tagging daylilies for our September plant sale! Don Glenn did all the digging, while Ken Mazurek and Doug Smith helped Betty, Ruth and Genna with the tagging. Joan and Linda were making labels for two days to keep up with all the plants we had for the sale.

We all showed up early for the day of the sale and so did

some of the customers. Rex Johnston manned the door and Ruth Malacara was the official money lady. We were having so much fun, that Jae Brown decided to join our group. Welcome Jae!

It was very satisfying to answer questions and help the public find just the right daylilies for their gardens. Andy came and helped during the sale and for the clean up.

For our October 25th meeting, we will have a dinner to celebrate the end of another successful year and to welcome our four new members. Dusty McGuire, head of "Keep Amarillo Beautiful,” will be speaking to us about the plans for John Stiff Memorial Park. They want to incorporate daylilies as a part of the new gardens, and our group is interested in donating the plants. Sounds like next year will be another busy year for the Golden Spread Daylily Society!

Gulf Coast Daylily Society

of Southeast Texas By Mary Gage

Our September meeting was again at the Senior Citizen's Center in Groves with a covered dish luncheon served on tables beautifully decorated by Sheri Jehlen in Fall colors with red, gold, orange and brown leaves.

We had an enormous number of door prizes donated by many of our members. These were perennials such as Butterfly Weed, Persian Shield, Ginger, Bulbine, Esperanza, Crepe Myrtle, Walking Iris, African Butterfly Iris, and others as well as daylilies. Everyone went home with several new plants to add to their landscapes.

Dr. Eugene Orgeron was the winner of the 2003 Fuquay Award with his yellow seedling, YE303, and Craig Hoyal won the Allie Swafford Award for best overall seedling with H3-2, melon edged with gold ruffles. These were chosen during our annual tours of members’ gardens last May on three successive Wednesdays.

GCDS members continue to take responsibility for placing daylilies in public gardens. We will be planting and maintaining a new daylily garden at Terrell Park in Beaumont with Pat Herod as Committee Chairman. Kathryn and Red Lusignan planted and continue to tend a bed of daylilies at Ridgewood Elementary School. They chose varieties that bloom early so that the children can enjoy the flowers before school lets out for the Summer. Kathryn and Red were this year's winners of the Appreciation Award at the flower show. Our Fall daylily plant sale will also be an opportunity to spread daylilies and information to the public. It will be on October 11 at Central Mall after a work day on October 9 at Ann Marks’ home to wash and tag plants.

We regret to announce that our long time member Eleanor Thompson has passed away after a lengthy illness. She served us many years as Corresponding Secretary. We will miss her and we extend to her family our condolences.

Sharon Odegar, President of the Native Plant Society of Texas, Beaumont Chapter (also known as the Native Plant Guru of the Gulf Coast) gave us a very interesting and informative slide program. We all grow some native plants, but there are many others that we would do well to add to our gardens, some for easy care, some for adaptability to our often extremely wet and/or dry conditions.

We were pleased to display a certificate from the AHS for our donations to the Joe E. House Fund, which we were awarded at our Regional Meeting in League City.

Officers for 2004 were elected: President: Margie Dumesnil 1st Vice President: Dr. Gene Orgeron 2nd Vice President: Mary Gage Secretary: Ann Marks Treasurer: Fred Rice Historian: Sheri Jehlen Corresponding Secretary: Vera Petersen.

Houston Hemerocallis

Society By Bonnie Hess

This is a summary of what we have done in 2003. January,

2003 - A New Year and what will it bring? Since daylilies originally came from China, we will celebrate our club’s 50th Anniversary with a "Tropical Chinese Buffet" in September. However, this month our program was on "Daylily Hybridizers of the South."

In our February meeting it was announced that our flower show would be May 3 at the Greenspoint Mall. Both our clubs jointly sponsor the show.

In March, we had our election of officers for 2003-04, and in April the officers were installed: President: Margaret Sinclair 1st Vice President: Robert De Veau 2nd Vice President: Catherine Neal Recording Secretary: Robert De Veau Treasurer: Hershal Theilen

Our March program was a demonstration on getting ready for the Flower Show. Before our meetings there are exhibits of daylily art, crafts, catalogs, pictures and items of interest. We listen to beautiful music while we eat.

On May 3rd, we had our Flower Show. We had a cool Spring so when I went out the morning of the show to see what was blooming - surprise-surprise - 5 blooms - 2 COOL JAZZ and - 3 BUTTERSCOTCH RUFFLES.. I was going to do two arrangements! Fortunately Anna Rosa Glidden brought extras which she had gotten from several people. I guess in spite of all this we had a successful show. We had the required number of designs and 85 scapes. Anna Rosa mentioned that a show a couple weeks later had over 200 entries.

Lone Star

Daylily Society By Elizabeth Allbright

Lone Star Daylily Society has been busy this Summer. At the July meeting the members critiqued the Region 6 Meeting. We did not meet in June so this was our first opportunity to hash out what we had done well and what we could have done better. All in all we were satisfied the Regional Meeting was very successful. We are also asking questions and getting answers as to how best serve our members.

We are very proud of our member hybridizer, Leon Payne, for winning the AHS Achievement Medal with his cultivar, HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE. Congratulations to Leon!

We were rewarded in August with a slide show of the Payne’s seedlings and commentary by Leon. Leon and Paula have outstanding flowers that we have all added to our wish list. T'was a most enjoyable program.

The September program was a departure from daylilies with a program about "Wildlife in Suburbia.” This program was presented by Wildlife Rehabber Sharon Schmalz. She gave a very professional and educational presentation. Everyone was keenly interested in her two assistants, a Screech Owl and a Great Horned Owl. Thanks to President Barney Roberts for suggesting this program. Barney serves on the Board of the Wildlife and Rehab Education organization.

Members are now waiting for the arrival of the gift plants obtained thru the club purchase. Any additional plants obtained thru the purchase are put into the club auction held in October. Thanks to Warren Goza for taking on the responsibility of handling this detailed job. Not only are we anxiously awaiting the arrival of our gift plants, but we are also hoarding dollars to use in outbidding each other on all those flowers we just can't live without. The auction is a Win-Win event. Members bid on plants they want, the club adds to the treasury, and everyone has a great time.

Nacogdoches Daylily Society By Jean Consford

Our club did not meet during the Summer months; our last meeting was at the home of Lillian Lily where we enjoyed a presentation on making floral arrangements, using flowers from our home gardens. Several members brought flowers and created their own arrangements.

Jean Barnhart was the only club member in attendance at the Regional Meeting this Summer. She reported a great Meeting and a great time. Health would have caused me to miss my first Regional in years anyhow, but my daughter in Denton also cooperated by scheduling the arrival of my newest grandchild during that time!

Extended illness has placed me in a "shoebox" size garden with only 150+ daylilies in temporary storage in my son's back yard, awaiting their next move. The only bright spot has been sharing my daylily collection with club members. Perhaps I will visit them in their new homes next bloom season!

North Texas Daylily Society By Gwen Pennington

It's been the usual hot, dry Summer in North Texas. Our club

takes a little time off in July and has a "picnic" instead of the usual monthly meeting. This is a time for members to visit and

catch up on new daylilies, planned future acquisitions, bed improvements in the Fall, and any other activities. Our "picnic" was held at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in North Side's historic Stockyards District and was attended by about 35 members.

August's meeting featured Binion Amerson, President of the Daylily Growers of Dallas, with an outstanding slide show presentation of the Region 6 Meeting which had been hosted by the Lone Star Daylily Society. The slide show allowed club members to share some of the great activities and beautiful gardens showcased in this year's Meeting. August is also the month that officers are elected. Almost all members serving in an officer capacity agreed to serve again in the coming year. Kathleen Whiteway was nominated to serve as Recording Secretary. Thanks to each of these members, we will have another good year to look forward to.

September's guest speaker was Ned Roberts, and what a wonderful program he presents. Ned is one of the outstanding hybridizers and proponent of Spiders and Unusual Forms. His slide presentation was totally engaging and informative. Ned is leading the way in bringing many new variations of the Spider form, and he is a great speaker! The slate of officers was confirmed for the coming year. What a great meeting.

Toward the end of September, the club also conducted its Annual Sale at the Fort Worth Arboretum. We had a great variety of cultivars and almost all the plants were sold. This event gives the club a chance to visit with the public and invite visitors to become new members. The proceeds from the sale go toward general club expenses.

The weather is beginning to turn cool now, and members are headed out to their gardens. If you try to call one of us, just leave a message and we will return your call after dusk.

San Antonio

Daylily Society By Marilyn Greenlee

At our July meeting Historian Dana Griffin reported on club practices she had researched in SADS minutes of the past six years. Barry Shadrock presented an interesting slide presentation on his three-year hybridizing program. I think we may have talked Barry into saving one cultivar that he was planning to dispose of. Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder - each of us has our own idea of what is lovely and worth preserving.

SADS folk enjoy sharing photos of their favorite daylilies with fellow club members. At our July meeting Janice Green passed around a shot of TUSCAWILLA TAJ MAJAL that bloomed in her garden with six petals and six sepals. Diane Richey, Editor of our club Newsletter, especially appreciates receiving pictures. She routinely includes a color photo of a daylily each month on the mailing label, which is identified in the lower left corner of the first page of The Scape.

Our August meeting began with a crash course by Mark Carpenter entitled, "Daylilies 101." SADS has quite a few new members, who welcomed some basic information. The rest of

us "old timers" can always benefit from a review - and probably learn something new along the way, too. Mark demonstrated with some of his last rebloom plants the various parts and features of a daylily. He touched briefly on planting methods, the division of daylilies, the hybridization process, crown rot, and rust. He distributed a revised handout on General Care for South Texas Daylilies that included a listing of web sites to refer to for further information.

TUSCAWILLA TAJ MAJAL

President Steve Wingfield's concerted effort to get AHS

Popularity Poll ballots in by the September 1 deadline resulted in 80% participation by eligible SADS members, an impressive increase over last year.

Kimberly Keith spoke at our September meeting on a topic dear to her heart, pest/disease control through natural organic methods. Kimberly highly recommends reading the Texas Bug Book, from which she obtained much of the information in her presentation. She distributed a handout on Critter Controls that listed the least toxic alternatives to the more conventional toxic ones.

Thelma Pratts and Steve Wingfield are chairing SADS participation in the November 8 Fall Garden Fair at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. Our club will be joining with other organizations in providing educational exhibits and sale of plants.

Lori Potrykus has developed a database of information about our daylily bed at the Botanical Garden. She is looking for volunteers to work in the bed this Fall, when cooler temperatures will be more conducive to physical exertion.

The Nominating Committee is at work to come up with a slate of candidates who will officiate during 2004. These names will be presented at our October meeting and voted on in November.

Also at work are Mark Carpenter and Bridey Greeson, who are pinning down preliminary assignments for our hosting of the May 21-22 Regional Meeting. We certainly look forward to seeing you all here for the Riverwalk and More in 2004.

AHS Membership

Drive

A membership drive is being sponsored by AHS. It is

estimated that 25-30% of local club members are not AHS members. We would like to encourage these daylily enthusiasts to join AHS. The membership drive begins January 1, 2004, and extends through March 31, 2004. New members who join with a three-year membership will be eligible for a drawing to receive a free copy of An Illustrated Guide to Daylilies. Fifty names will be drawn and each of the fifty winners will receive a copy of the book in mid-April, 2004.

All of us know the benefits that we get from AHS membership including the Daylily Journals, Regional Newsletters, and Slide and Video Library, to name just a few. So please encourage those of your friends who are not AHS members to take advantage of this promotion. Make an AHS membership application form available and encourage them to join AHS. A copy of the application form is available on the web at www.daylilies.org. All AHS membership forms and payments should be sent directly to: Pat Mercer, AHS Executive Secretary Department WWW P.O. Box 10 Dexter, GA 31019 E-mail: gmercer©nlamerica.com

We encourage individual clubs to join as a club. Some other ideas to encourage AHS Membership: • Recognize new AHS members with a daylily plant. • Have a drawing for an AHS membership. • Have a special door prize for AHS members only. • Have AHS membership applications at each meeting.

Remember how much you enjoy getting the Daylily Journal with its spectacular color photographs and interesting and educational articles? Well, you're not alone, and everyone who enjoys daylilies should have the same opportunity. Encourage your friends to join in January for this special promotion.

The Newest AHS Display Garden

Arledge Daylily Garden Richardson, Texas

By Tim Gloss

Region 6 newest AHS. Display Garden is an oasis amid the urban DFW Metroplex. Located on a quarter acre shaded lot in an older neighborhood of Richardson, Texas, the Jerry Arledge Daylily Garden beckons visitors with well-established Live Oaks and Shumard Red Oaks. The front yard display beds are arranged with informal curved beds surrounding a Chinese Pistachio tree. This bed highlights Jerry's miniature and small flowered cultivar collection. These daylilies are accented with a variety of ornamental grasses and perennials that don't

overwhelm the petite foliage and flowers. A trip to the more extensive back yard gardens reveals raised beds lining the entire perimeter of the property. These perimeter beds encircle a large raised center bed. This large center bed contains many of the newest cultivars available. Jerry hasn't forgotten daylilies of the past, interspersing many older heirloom varieties throughout his plantings. All told, there are over 700 varieties showcased at the Arledge Daylily Garden.

Because of the heavy clay soils found in the DFW Metroplex, Jerry has constructed raised beds for all of his collection. The soil has been amended with compost, cotton burr compost, and numerous other types of organic materials to improve the drainage of the clay. To help acclimate his daylilies, Jerry has a "holding pen" set off to one side of the garden where he pots up his most recently purchased cultivars to establish an extensive root system before transplanting into the beds. He typically holds the plants for 2 to 3 months in 3-gallon containers

before transferring to the garden. All the beds and containers are fertilized twice a year with a 13-13-13 slow release fertilizer. His garden utilizes large existing trees to provide filtered shade for all of his daylily beds, reducing his water consumption and allowing Jerry to water all of his beds with soaker hoses.

Jerry has been growing daylilies since 1985 on this property and credits his passion for daylilies to his late mother, Freddie Sue. He credits his lovely wife, Ernestine, for indulging him is his quest to beautify his neighborhood. The evidence of his hard work and passion for daylilies is evident, not only from this beautiful garden, but in his willingness to share his knowledge of daylilies with others. Please visit the Arledge Daylily Garden - located at 307 Dogwood, Richardson, Texas 75080, phone 972-690-9388 - and see for yourself the depth of this man's passion for daylilies.

2003 REGION 6 SHOW RESULTS Albuquerque Austin Brazosport Cypress Creek Dallas

Large Flower MARY TODD Fay 1967

Jim & Courtney Petty

LIMOGES PORCELAINMunson, R. W. 1982

Nix Bodden

MOONSTRUCK MADNESSSalter 1998

Leon & Paula Payne

KNIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN Stamile19 98 Mary Gage

OMOMUKI Stamile 1991 Pat Blackburn

Small Flower LITTLE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE Faggard 1985

Margo Murdock

REGENCY SUMMER Salter, E. 1993

Rich Rosen

ENCHANTER'S SPELL Hudson 1982 Art Imperial

LOIS KIMBERLY Glidden 2001

Anna Rosa Glidden

SUNNY EYES Brown, E. C. 1994

Lee & Anita Causey

Miniature BUTTERPAT Kennedy 1970

Alan & Rozanne Tuffnell

TEXAS SUNLIGHT Lewis, J. 1981

Carolyn Mersiovsky

FAIRY FIRECRACKER Hudson 1984

Leon & Paula Payne

JASON SALTER Salter, E. 1987

Mary Gage

BROOKWOOD OJO POCOSharp 1994

Sharon Umphress

Unusual Form PRAGUE SPRING Lambert 1985 Linda Kellerup

LADY NEVA Alexander-Moody 1970

Carolyn Mersiovsky

RODEO CLOWN Payne, L. 2001

Leon & Paula Payne

Double ALVIN SHOLAR Sholar 1987

Richard & Donna Peck

DOUBLE BOW TIE Miles, J. 1969 Rich Rosen

YAZOO SOUFFLE Smith, W. H. 1983

Leon & Paula Payne

TOTALLY AWESOME Ward, S. G. 1993

Anna Rosa Glidden

DOUBLE DAFFY Kropf 1976

Lee & Anita Causey

Spider/Variant APRON STRINGS Ward-L. 1993 Mimi Glover

LACY MARIONETTE Tarrant 1987 Rich Rosen

CAROLICOLOSSAL Powell, L. K. 1968

Leon & Paula Payne

MARKED BY LYDIA Temple 1994 Mary Gage

KEVIN MICHAEL COYNE Dickerson 1988

Sharon Umphress

Popularity Poll ELIZABETH SALTER Salter 1990

Walter Wood

ELIZABETH SALTER Salter 1990

Velia Sanchez-Ruiz

BARBARA MITCHELL Pierce, C. 1984

Inez Tarrant

STRAWBERRY CANDY Stamile 1989

Mary & Eddie Gage

Seedling Seedling Ogee

Michelle Ogee

Seedling Leon & Paula Payne Leon & Paula Payne

Seedling

Anna Rosa Glidden

Seedling

Lee Causey

Youth TOMMY GLIDDEN Glidden 2001 Marta Olovets

Best in Show PRAGUE SPRING Lambert 1985 Linda Kellerup


Carolyn Mersiovsky

ENCHANTER'S SPELL Hudson 1982 Art Imperial

KNIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN Stamile 1998 Mary Gage

SUNNY EYES Brown, E. C. 1994

Lee & Anita Causey

AHS Achievement Medal

Tricolor Connie Elmore Bill Ater Nell Shimek Binion Amerson

Designer's Choice

Courtney Petty Ruth Goza

Sweepstakes Joseph Chang Carolyn Mersiovsky Art Imperial Jean Lewis Diane Bevel

Appreciation Award

2003 REGION 6 SHOW RESULTS

East Texas Gulf Coast Houston Hemerocallis Lone Star North Texas San Antonio

SHERRY LANE CARR Carr 1993

Sharon Umphress

HEART OF GEORGIA Joiner 2002

James Farquhar

PAPAYA PARFAIT Kirchhoff, D. 1995

Lorris Garrett

ISLE OF CAPRI Stamile 1990

Leon & Paula Payne

FOOLED ME Reilly-Hein 1990

Tom & Diane Bevel

NARANJA Wheeler 1947

Steve Wingfield

SUNNY EYES Brown, E. C. 1994 Sharon Umphress

ENCHANTER'S SPELL Hudson 1982 Gene Orgeron

CREME TRUFFLES Glidden 1995

Anna Rosa Glidden

GOBLIN MOON Salter, E. 1996

Leon & Paula Payne

ONO Johnson, H. 1977

Tom & Diane Bevel

INNER DESTINY Stamile 2001

Bridey Greeson

YUM YUM Lewis, J. 1979

Elizabeth Hoover

LITTLE ROMANCE Stamile, G. 1993 James Farquhar


Steve Wingfield

RADIATION BIOHAZARD Gossard 2000 Lee Causey

CHRISTENING SPIRIT Payne, L. 1998

James Farquhar

RODEO CLOWN Payne, L. 2001

Leon & Paula Payne

PINK SUPER SPIDER Carpenter, K. 1982

Vernon Wallis

BUMBLE BEE BOOGIE Kirchhoff, D. 1999

Lee Causey

VISION OF LOVE Kaskel-Trimmer 1996

James Farquhar

JUST MY SIZE Stamile, G. 2000

Anna Rosa Glidden

ALMOND PUFF Stamile 1990

Leon & Paula Payne

DOUBLE DAFFY Kropf 1976

Vernon Wallis

ELLEN CHRISTINE Crochet 1987

Steve Wingfield

MARKED BY LYDIA Temple 1994

Elizabeth Hoover

SKINNY MINNY Crandall 1991 Gene Orgeron

LACY MARIONETTE Tarrant 1987

Leon & Paula Payne

EASY NED Brown, B. 1987 Vernon Wallis

YABBA DABBA DOO Hansen 1993 Dana Griffin

WIND FRILLS Tarrant 1978

Elizabeth Hoover

MOONLIT MASQUERADE

Salter 1992 Mary & Eddie Gage

ELIZABETH SALTER Salter 1990

Leon & Paula Payne

RED VOLUNTEER Oakes 1984

Bill Pace

WIND FRILLS Tarrant 1978 Dana Griffin

Seedling #99-11 Umphress

Sharon Umphress

Seedling #PE-DO-311 Orgeron

Gene Orgeron

Seedling Lee

Clifford Lee

Seedling #00-05 Payne, L.

Leon & Paula Payne

SHORT CLEO Glidden 2002 Marta Olovets

RADAR LOVE Benz 1993

Jessica Bevel

SHERRY LANE CARR Carr 1993

Sharon Umphress

HEART OF GEORGIA Joiner 2002

James Farquhar

CREME TRUFFLES Glidden 1995

Anna Rosa Glidden

LACY MARIONETTE Tarrant 1987

Leon & Paula Payne

FOOLED ME Reilly-Hein 1990

Tom & Diane Bevel

WIND FRILLS Tarrant 1978 Dana Griffin

HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE Payne, L. 2003

Leon & Paula Payne

Christine Atchison Mary Gage Davis Burton Binion Amerson

Anna Rosa Glidden Betty Shirley

Lee Causey James Farquhar Eddie & Mary Gage Leon & Paula Payne Lee & Anita Causey Steve Wingfield

Mary Jernigan, Jeanne McNutt, Nancy Wynne

V. J. Lusignan, Kathryn Lusignan

Catherine Neal

From the Archives - By Ray Houston

This article from the Spring 1961 Region 6 Newsletter was a plea to help pay for the four Newsletters produced by the Region at that time. It is interesting to see how the cost of producing a Newsletter has drastically changed since 1961.

"LET'S COOPERATE WITH OUR REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT ON OUR NEWSLETTERS"

By Edna Lankart, Publicity Director Region 6

I know you are all interested in receiving our Newsletter

from our own Region and I believe that you will want to do your part to help make it possible to continue receiving the four letters when you know the facts.

As briefly as possible, here are the facts - our Regional Vice President does not have an expense account, but is given an allowance of 5¢ per Newsletter plus 3¢ postage for two Newsletters per year and that is only for AHS members. This amounted to $33.12 and it cost our Regional Vice President $44.60 to get out the first Newsletter, and that only because Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Allan Purnell, Jr. typed, cut stencil, and ran Newsletters off on a duplicating machine free of charge.

Our Spring Newsletter will be mimeographed as it will be more readable, but the cost of this will have to be paid. Our Spring Newsletter does not receive help from AHS so the cost of this Newsletter is being paid by the small ads and by the 64 who sent in their $1.00 for the extra Newsletters - a good number of these came from other Regions. Surely our Region 6 with 385 members can support two Newsletters. Mrs. Purnell is working hard to make our Newsletters interesting. It requires a great deal of time to get out these Newsletters and to answer the many letters she receives, but she is most appreciative of all the many lovely letters she has

received and to those who have sent in their dollar "to help the cause along.” Let's all do our part and send our dollar to Mrs. Hugh A. Purnell. Archivist Note: Here are a few of the 64 names that sent their dollar that you may recognize. • Alexander, Mrs. J. W. Alta Loma, TX (Grace Alexander's Mother-In-Law) • Ferris, Mrs. Royal A., Jr. (Bertie) Dallas, TX • French, Miss Dorothy Marie Houston, TX • Giles, Miss Annie T. Austin, TX (Region 6 Annie T. Giles Award for seedlings) • Hughes, Mr. T. E. Mansfield, TX • Lankart, Miss Edna Waco, TX (Region 6 Edna Lankart Award for seedlings) • Lewis, Joyce W. Murchison, TX • Roquemore, Mrs. A. D. Dallas, TX (A. D. Roquemore Memorial Award for photography) • Warner, Mrs. Jay E. (Lucille) Dallas, TX

ATTENTION

Plants are needed for the

EDNA LANKART and

ANNIE T. GILES Award Beds

for the 2005 Region 6 Meeting

Send them to: Lee Causey

8204 Firestone Flower Mound, TX 75022

REGION 6 DAYLILY SOCIETIES, PRESIDENTS AND MEETING SCHEDULES ALBUQUERQUE DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Rozanne Tuffnell 2112 Blue Corn Maiden Ct. NE Albuquerque, NM 87112, 505-298-8992, [email protected] Meetings: Mar - Aug, and Oct AUSTIN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY President - Suzanne Adair 11519 Antigua Austin, TX 78759, 512-256-6192 Meetings: 1st Thurs in Apr -May, Aug - Dec BRAZOSPORT DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Lois Hall 3711 Murworth Houston, TX 77025-3531, 713-666-8543 Meetings: 2:30 p.m., 2nd Sun, Lake Jackson Library CYPRESS CREEK DAYLILY CLUB President - Robert Valenza, [email protected] 5903 Riverchase Trail Kingwood, TX 77345, 281-360-0765 Meetings: 2:00 p.m., 4th Sun, Jan-Apr, Sep-Oct DAYLILY GROWERS OF DALLAS President - Binion Amerson 13339 Castleton Circle. Dallas, TX 75234-5111, 972-241-1726, [email protected] Meetings: 10:00 a.m., 3rd Sat, except Jun, Jul, Aug and Dec North Haven Gardens, Dallas EAST TEXAS DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Lucille Wynne 2901 East 5th Street Tyler, TX 75701-5026, 903-566-0209 Meetings: 2:00 p.m., 2nd Sun, Tyler Rose Center GOLDEN SPREAD DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Doug Smith 726 Lefors Pampa, TX 79065, 806-665-3410 Meetings: 2:00 p.m., 4th Sun, Feb-Oct Amarillo Botanical Gardens GULF COAST DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Margie Dumesnil 907 Neches Dr. Port Neches, TX 77651-2530, 409-727-0482 Meetings: 1st Sat, Feb, Apr, Aug, Sep, Dec HOUSTON AREA DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Clifford Lee 315 East Helm Houston, TX 77037-1603, 281-448-4153 Meetings: 10:00 a.m., 2nd Thurs Hermann Park Garden Center

HOUSTON HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY President - Margaret Sinclair 850 Sara Rose Houston, TX 77018-5031, 713-694-4515 Meetings: 4th Thurs in Jan-May, Sep-Oct Hermann Park Garden Center HUNTSVILLE MUDDY BOOTS DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Bonnie Strub 1327 15th Street Huntsville, TX 77340 Meetings: 2nd Sun of each month JOHNSON COUNTY IRIS AND DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Beth Griffith 501 Sunset Cleburne, TX 76033, 817-645-7875 Meetings: 2:00 p.m., 2nd Sat of each month United Cooperative Services, Inc. LONE STAR DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Barney Roberts 1312 Wilderness Pines Dr. Friendswood, TX 77546, 281-992-1117, [email protected] Meetings: 2 p.m. 3rd Sun, Alvin Senior Citizen Building LUFKIN HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY President - Evelyn Barley Rt. 13, Box 5890 Lufkin, TX 75901-8543, 979-632-6909 Meetings: 2:00 p.m. 1st Tues at T.U. Electric Meeting Room NACOGDOCHES DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Lynette Sanders 15 Hunters Ridge Dr. Nacogdoches, TX 75961, 936-569-6125, [email protected] Meetings: 7:00 p.m., 2nd Tues NORTH TEXAS DAYLILY SOCIETY-FORT WORTH President - Nickie Knight 1201 Crockett Dr. Burleson, TX 76028-6922, 817-551-7260 Meetings: 7:30 p.m., 3rd Thurs, Fort Worth Botanic Center SAN ANTONIO DAYLILY SOCIETY President - Steve Wingfield 415 Starlight Pass San Antonio, TX 78258, 830-980-5230, [email protected] Meetings: 2:00 p.m., 3rd Sun San Antonio Botanical Garden

Please notify the Newsletter Editor of any changes of names, officers & addresses. Note that my new e-mail address is [email protected]

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Mark Carpenter - O.BLU Seedling Leon Payne - 01-34 Tetraploid Joyce Lewis-Sharon Umphress - SA-0216 Elizabeth Hoover - SASSY SANGRIA

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