Re: Daylilies

Chris,

> Daylily people capitalize cultivar names.

Daylily people can use them and it may be correct within various Hem
societies, but taxonomically it's not correct.  But it brings me to a qstn:
Do Daylily people ever, or often, use Day Lily - 2 words?  There was an
article in the local paper in which the writer visited "Millers Day Lily
Farm" and he used day lily throughout the entire article.  I checked every
*botanical* resource I have from several different countries and published
during different decades and found NO reference to Day Lily.  Some (but not
all) ordinary language dictionaries may include the 2 word version, but in
all gardening and horticultural scenarios it is Daylily.

Can you shed some light on that?

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Chris@widom-assoc.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Daylilies


> Cathy,
>
> I love ROCKET BOOSTER. It makes an impressive clump.  I have FIRESTORM.
> It's one of my favorites. I don't know the others.  I have all colors.
> Some of my beds are according to color, like my hot orange and red bed.
> I have a pink and white bed,  a yellow and blue bed, etc.
>
> I don't know if you made a typo, but just in case, it should be WATCHYL.
> Daylily people capitalize cultivar names. Don't know how that started!
>
>
> Chris
> Long Island, NY
> Zone 7
>
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