I have heard of people saying they have used aspirin water (and there is an article somewhere on the web where someone used aspirin water on vegetables as an experiment--can't find it right now) on their daylilies, but none have stated that it helped with rust.
Here it is
http://www.plantea.com/plant-a...
It's not the original article from Advant Gardener, but it explains it some.
We may have talked about it on here somewhere but I can't find it.