Re: Daylilies

I think the problem here may be spell check programs, like the one on my email. It didn't like daylilies until I told it to.

On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 03:20 PM, Kitty wrote:

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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Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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