In the introduction year, A.B. Stout described it as:
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In respect to the ensemble of coloring, the flowers of the Linda Daylily are somewhat bicolored, pale-fulvous, and eyed.
The throat is a shade of yellow approaching apricot yellow with greenish tinges at its base;
the sepals are more clearly yellowish with almost no traces of fulvous; the outer half of the petals is delicately overcast
with pale fulvous and there is a conspicuous eye zone of Brazil red bisected by a strip of pale fulvous that extends along the midvein toward the throat.
The open flowers have a spread of about 4.5 or 5 inches, and they are spreading rather than recurving.
A well-known plant usually stands between 3 and 4 feet tall and the scapes are much branched and upstanding.
The season of bloom at New York is in early July.
The ancestry of the Linda Daylily includes the species Hemerocallis Thunbergii, H. citrina, and two different seedlings of H. flava
which came from the wild in central China.
The above is the first printed description and mention of this daylily.
"
( cited from:
Herbertia, 1936, vol. 3, p. 92-95 + 113
)
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