Re: Daylilies

Well, it cleared my spell check.  Oh well, it's not a big thing, but it just
sort of ticked me off becuase there are virtually no garden articles in the
paper, though we do get a bridge tip every single day.  When we do get one,
it is often flawed or doesn't pertain to our area.
I guess sometimes it doesn't take much to set me off.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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
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> Zone 10a
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