Daylily Cultivar Detailed Information
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Color: ORD2-S: Orange red dark with spot or eyezone Parentage: Notes: "An odd small-flowered dark brownish red," Wyndham Hayward's Lakemont Gardens catalog, 1939-40. A.B. Stout reported in Herbertia Vol 4, 1937, that it was "discarded but by error a division was sent to [Florida and has been used] in breeding...[It is] of no special merit and far excelled by later selections." Ethel P. Dewey (NY), in "Impressions of Florida Daylilies" in Herbertia (1938), wrote, "Outstanding were the plants of BROWNIE, which had the appearance of miniature multiflora hybrids. It was only about fifteen to eighteen inches tall and the branching scapes produced quantities of small two and a half inch flowers of a dark brownish red color with an eyezone of madder brown. The sepals were only a shade lighter, giving the entire flower a very decidedly brownish cast. When raised in the North BROWNIE grows about three feet tall but the blossoms remain the same size and this makes an unbalanced plant...[Grown in Florida] a perfect plant results." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||