Day Lilies

We had no day lilies at the Schmeling home at 1127 Kansas Street. I remember seeing them around town. The large Kate Scoular house on the southwest corner of tenth and Commercial streets had some and the “ghost house” south of the new, modern home occupied at that time by George Day which would have been on the southwest corner of Ninth and Commercial streets had a little bit of everything, all growing large and unattended. In that yard were large patches of day lilies.

Day lilies have a lily-type of flower that comes up on a stalk from amidst a group of long green leaves. They are so named be...