Product Description

A guide to growing and hybridising lilies for the serious enthusiast or the professional gardener.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #530810 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 392 pages

From Booklist
Like many Timber Press books, this one is geared to experienced gardeners, horticulturists, and botanists. McRae provides techniques for hybridizing and explains the biology of the lily plant. He discusses propagation, cultivation, diseases, and pests, and explains how lilies can be used in the garden. A chapter on exhibiting lilies is followed by one on growing them around the world and one on commercial bulb production. A large portion of the book (175 pages) is a list of various species and hybrids with a detailed description of each. The author, who has developed many hybrids himself, also gives brief sketches of some prominent lily hybridizers. The text is augmented by 108 color photographs and eight botanical prints. George Cohen