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Two beautiful trumpet hybrids. Above, ‘Jamaika’ will grow to about 1.20m and Below, ‘Fetis’ is another of Miculka’s hybrids that grows to just under a metre. 89
shaped hybrids, a variety of different aurelian hybrids was developed. These breeds are rarely affected by disease. At most they are sensitive to late frosts, which can impair their flowering. Carl Feldmaier, the German lily breeder, describes the aurelian lilies as extremely fool proof. Pink trumpets with trumpet shaped blooms developed following specific selection processes. L. N. Freimann from Washington noticed pink petals on one of his seedlings. He crossbred the hybrid over several generations, selecting the best seedlings for breeding, until he finally obtained lilies with fuchsia pink petals. The disadvantage was that the third generation was greatly weakened by the interbreeding, so he was forced to backcross it with Lilium regale until he was finally able to sell the “pink trumpets”. This programme took 15 years. The “king lilies” were developed in a similar way. In 1941 Freimann sowed some Lilium x gloriosum seed; amongst the seedlings he found one that was cream-coloured. After five years of back-crossing and much selection the “golden regales” were introduced in 1946. When one is talking of yellow and golden trumpet lilies, one breeder must not be forgotten – Jan de Graaff from the Oregon Bulb Farms. In 1934 the Dutchman emigrated to America, he bought land and planted narcissus and iris bulbs. At the same time, lilies fascinated him, so he collected whatever he could get and bred selectively. From de Graaff’s selection came the white hybrids that are divided into two groups: the “mountain-hybrid” that have a touch of green and the classic white “Olympic-hybrid”. Trumpet lilies are usually divided in four main groups: the ones with Chinese trumpet flowers (6a), the ones with cup or pod shaped flowers (6b), the ones with hanging flowers (6c), and, finally, the ones with star shaped flowers (6d). Trumpet lilies are easily grown in a humus-rich sandy soil, with their heads in the sun and feet in the shade. Due to their high bud count, trumpet lilies are more suited to the garden than to the cut flower trade, which has not made wide use of trumpet lilies because of the problems involved when transporting the plants (buds easily damaged…etc). Trumpet lilies, as previously mentioned, can be very free flowering. One variety (‘Heidelberg’) produced 66 flowers! Another hybrid, ‘Glockenturm’, was photographed with 30 flowers. Trumpet lilies are rarely found in florists. For the garden however a wide range of different new hybrids are now available, making it worthwhile for everyone to try for themselves. The Editor would like to thank Pontus Wallstén who assisted with the translation of this article which was kindly undertaken by Gesa Hille. 90
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LILIES and Related Plants 75 TH ANN
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Lilies and Related Plants Published
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Royal Horticultural Society Lily Gr
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Contents Alisdair Aird by Harris Ho
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Gennady Firsov, PhD, is Senior Rese
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the Lyttel Cup. When I mentioned th
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Dee Simmons and her husband Martyn
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But, now that she is gone, how shou
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Lilium dauricum at Hamatonbetsu on
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Above left, Lilium callosum var. fl
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var. abeanum is a case in point, or
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Two of Derek Fox’s lily cultivars
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18 The lilies of Greece Arne Strid
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The five lilies of Greece. A: Liliu
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The natural distribution of Lilium
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Right, Lilium chalcedonicum, indivi
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gracefully curved, bright lemon yel
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28 A brief history of the RHS Lily
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Greece . . . . . . . . . . S.C. Atc
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initiate a programme of chromosone
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Faced with this continuing situatio
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Hence this review… We are extreme
Page 45 and 46: TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Consider the
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Page 51 and 52: growing plants in a climate that ha
Page 53 and 54: Lily Year Books The Year Books of o
Page 55 and 56: Institute became more and more conc
Page 57 and 58: Above left, ‘Descant’, Top righ
Page 59 and 60: visitors at New Mill, often summone
Page 61 and 62: A group of North Hybrids sent to Br
Page 63 and 64: 56 Dr A.F. Hayward (1933-2006) Dr T
Page 65 and 66: Lily ‘Connecticut King’, the cu
Page 67 and 68: Lilium regale and asiatic hybrids f
Page 69 and 70: European and Middle Eastern lilies
Page 71 and 72: A group of asiatic hybrids and two
Page 73 and 74: growing in half shade, so I have no
Page 75 and 76: 68 Alisdair Aird Harris Howland wri
Page 77 and 78: 70 On the road in search of lilies
Page 79 and 80: Mount Shasta, rising to 14,162ft wa
Page 81 and 82: iver whose broad meanders we had cr
Page 83: 76 North American Pacific Coast lil
Page 86 and 87: somewhat decadent, in that we parke
Page 88 and 89: Left, Erythronium multiscapoideum f
Page 90 and 91: or Cliftonii Group in gardening cir
Page 92 and 93: Above, Erythronium propullans. The
Page 94 and 95: Trumpet lilies Walter Erhardt write
Page 98 and 99: Commercial lily production in tunne
Page 100 and 101: Table 2: Perth Long-term Averages J
Page 102 and 103: We also use a combination of cow ma
Page 104 and 105: Table 3: Lilium Varieties continued
Page 106 and 107: for making of barragons, a genteel
Page 108 and 109: ulbs soon. I have seen this lily gr
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Page 112 and 113: Geographic location The territory o
Page 114 and 115: Left, Fritillaria ruthenica growing
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Page 118 and 119: Tulipa biebersteiniana in the Fomin
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Page 122 and 123: Above, a large population of gladio
Page 124 and 125: glades at places Berezniki (environ
Page 126 and 127: Dubrava, in upland oakwoods, alder
Page 128 and 129: villages. These include Scilla sibi
Page 130 and 131: The International Lily Registrar Ka
Page 132 and 133: of Wester Ross beyond an ever-chang
Page 134 and 135: Allium angulosum 114 decipiens 114
Page 136 and 137: (Lilium) ‘Prunotto’ 96 pseudoti
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