Lily plant named `Snowcap`

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of flowers of excellent form and long persistence both on the plant and as cut flowers, the flowers being particularly distinguished by their light cream to white coloring and an unusual spotting pattern characterized by a small ring of tiny magenta spots; this combination being completely new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. This plant is an excellent garden plant, highly resistant to disease and showing high tolerance of virus. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut flower production and the clone is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its excellence of flower form and its large, broadly tepalled flowers of soft cream to pure white coloration, enriched by a ring of small spots in the center of the flower and by a narrow pencil mark edging along the basal tepal margins; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut flower producer from precooled bulbs forced under glass out of season.