Bret Clement 2008

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#000099" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Bret Clement  2008</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/barrister_s_oath_.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/barrister_s_oat"><U><IMG SRC="a8e968c0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/font_of_mercy.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/font_of_mercy.h"><U><IMG SRC="a90968d0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/grace_bestowed.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/grace_bestowed."><U><IMG SRC="a91967b0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="123" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A 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HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/two_cats_dancing_.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/two_cats_dancin"><U><IMG SRC="a9696760.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/wedding_cantata.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/wedding_cantata"><U><IMG SRC="a97968f0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>2007 Seedlings</B></div> <div> <B>1</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_1.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_1.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6296a30.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="163" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>2</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_2.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_2.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6396860.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="134" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>3</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_3.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_3.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6496840.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>4</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_4.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_4.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a65967e0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>5</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_5.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_5.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a66968a0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>6</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_6.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_6.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6796900.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>7</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_7.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_7.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6896990.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="153" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>8</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_8.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_8.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a69967f0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>9</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_9.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_9.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6a96ad0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>10</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_10.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_10.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6b967f0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>11</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_11.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_11.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6c968f0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>12</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_12.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_12.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6d96860.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="134" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>13</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_13.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_13.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6e96960.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>14</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_14.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_14.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a6f96920.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="146" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>15</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_15.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_15.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a7096950.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>16</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_16.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_16.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a7196750.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="117" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>17</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_17.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_17.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a7296960.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>18</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/b_18.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_18.htm"><U><B><IMG 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TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/b_22.htm"><U><B><IMG SRC="a7796950.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bret_clement_2008_m.htm#twas_the_night_before_bloom_season_and" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Bret Clement 2008"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="clement_2007_daylily.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clement 2007 Daylily"><U><B>2007 Intros</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/id29.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/id29.htm"><U><B>Past Introductions</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/id340.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/id340.htm"><U><B>About us</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:bclement@indy.rr.com?subject=daylilytrader" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:bclement@indy.rr.com?subject=dayl"><U><B>email</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://daylilytrader.com/id343.htm" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="http://daylilytrader.com/id343.htm"><U><B>Order</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daylily Trader Region 2 Hybridizers "><U><B>Daylilytrader Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="twas_the_night_before_bloom_season_and"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Twas the night before bloom season and all through the seedling beds, not a seedling was stirring, not even a Stella kid.  Well, not really, but the weather certainly made seedling evaluation difficult this past year.  A week of nightly lows around 20 degrees during the first week of April after everything had got off to a robust start in March was hard on most things.  Then, starting around May 1, the skies dried up and it wasn't until two months later that we received the next rain fall of any significance. Fortunately, the drought we experienced was classified only as moderate.  After the initial period of two months without rain we did get some timely rains that never got us caught up, but at least kept things from getting desperate.   I have always attempted to grow my seedlings under austere conditions under the theory that only the tough will survive the test, so that given their lack of any pampering beyond what the good Lord provides, they will almost certainly perform better for you than they did for me.<B> </B>However, towards the latter half of the summer, I relented a bit and gave my selected seedlings a modest amount of additional water.</div> <bR> <div>      No doubt I over selected from the four year old seedlings out of which I select possible future introductions several years from now, due to the effect the weather conditions had on their performance.  One hesitates to throw away a young seedling that otherwise shows promise based on a scape that is too short due to weather conditions.  There were also a couple of seedlings that I thought I would introduce this year that didn't handle these conditions as well as I thought they should and these did not get lined out.  On the other hand, the seedlings that were selected for introduction this year all proved to be strong performers under the conditions we experienced and I certainly have REASON TO BELIEVE that they have a better chance of performing well in your garden compared to a new cultivar that may have been experienced excessive pampering during the period it was undergoing evaluation. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>  Shipping will be late April or early May depending on weather conditions. </B> email <A HREF="mailto: bclement@indy.rr.com?subject=Daylilytrader Website" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: bclement@indy.rr.com?subject=Day"><U> bclement@indy.rr.com</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>