Lilium `Gold Dwarf`

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large upright-facing flowers of excellent form and long persistence. The new hybrid is particularly characterized by its short stature and its lightly spotted golden flowers with deeper gold-orange midribs. This combination is competely new in the Asiatic hybrid divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The variety is highly resistant to fusarium disease and shows tolerance of virus. The bulbs may be precooled and forced into flower under glass out of season. The clone is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its high resistance to disease; its tolerance of virus; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation; the excellence of its flower from form, size and substance; its versatility both as a garden plant and as a pot plant produced from pre-cooled bulbs forced under glass out of season; and in particular by its lightly spotted golden flowers with golden-orange margins, borne in a compact inflorescence on extremely short stems, a combination unique among Asiatic hybrid lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.