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The Day-Lily

Hemerocallis flava.

THE day-lily is not in high repute. Nevertheless there are not many plants that can surpass it in usefulness or beauty. Imprimis, it will grow in any soil, and if the villainous spade chops its unseen roots, it will come through the trial and sprout up again in the way of a mutilated horse-radish. It will thrive under the deep shade of plantations where the ground is as dry as dust all the summer, and pretty well exhausted of all goodness by the hungry roots of the trees. When in flower a large clump presents a beautiful appearance, and when not in flower the fresh cheerful green and the elegant outlines of the sword or sickle-shaped leaves are pleasing features. But there remains to be told a fact "not generally known," and it is that this beautiful lily may be turned to excellent account to furnish fodder to cattle, and more especially to cows in milk.