Lily plant: Lilium `Venture`

Abstract

A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of large flowers of excellent form, distinctive color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by its vigorous growth, its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, its healthy growth when forced under glass throughout the entire year, its favorable bulb growth response under prolonged storage even when the bulbs are frozen, its tall stems, its high bud count and the deep blood red color of its buds and flowers.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its vigorous growth, its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, its healthy growth when forced under glass throughout the entire year, its favorable bulb growth response after prolonged storage even when the bulbs are frozen, its tall stems, its high bud count, and the deep, blood red color of its buds and flowers.