Asiatic lily named `Cordelia`

Abstract

A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily having flowers of large size, excellent form, and an intense and unusual color pattern comprising an unusual combination of yellow and gold color tones with relatively sparse maculation, this color pattern being new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies. This plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance to virus and its flowers have long persistence, both on the plant and as cut-flowers, making it an excellent garden plant. Also, the bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production, the flowers being produced in late mid-season, inbetween the flowering times of its siblings of similar appearance, thereby broadening the season of cut-flower production.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of Asiatic hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its open flower form wherein the generally oblanceolate upper tepals extend midway between the lower tepals with very little overlapping of the tepal margins and with their nectary ends openly spaced apart at the base of the flower.