Lilies

Lilija (an armour. Lílium) — a sort of plants of family Lilejnye. The long-term grasses supplied with bulbs, consisting of the fleshy local leaves located черепитчато, white, pinkish or yellowish colour.

The Sort the Lily consists of more than 110 kinds extended mainly in Europe, and the main thing in Asia. In the North America it is no more 6.

In Russia is to 16 kinds from which in the European part of Russia, almost to width of Kazan, and in Siberia to the Kamchatka, the Lily саранка (Lilium martagon L is extended.), named in gardening by imperial curls. Облиственный, high enough stalk bears some the large, hung colours of mutno-pink colour, without aroma and with strong отвороченными покроволистиками. The plant bulb is used in food, and in gardens it gets divorced and sowed for a long time by itself, keeping in groves. Except this kind, in the European part of Russia it is possible to find out also a kind the Lily downy (Lilium pilosiusculum (Freyn) Miscz.).

Since lily depths of unrecorded time are considered as a beauty and perfection symbol. Looking at symmetry and refinement of these colours, you feel, with what love the Founder "decorated" their dress. They keep with such advantage that sometimes it would be desirable them to bow. Grace of forms, delightful harmony of stalks, leaves and colours have brought lilies the world glory and popularity. Assume that the flower name occurs from an Ancient Greek word "лейрион" - "white", or from древнекельтского "лилиум" ("purely white").

It is possible to tell that any terrestrial flower is not surrounded by such quantity of legends and myths, as this. According to an Ancient Greek legend, (at Romans the Juno) against the will fed once mother of Olympic gods of Gera of baby Gerakla, and the drops of the scattered milk which has got on the sky, have turned to Milky Way stars, and fallen to the ground - in snow-white lilies. Under the Jewish legends, this flower became the witness of a temptation of Eve, but thus itself has not lost purity. Capitals of enormous columns in a temple of Solomona have the form of lilies. There is a legend and that the cradle of prophet Moiseja has stopped under the yellow lily growing among a reed and canes. A lily - favourite is art-decorative motive at ancient assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. The white lily used the greatest love in Ancient Rome, it considered as the first flower after an incomparable rose. It is considered, what exactly ancient Romans have extended culture of a white lily in the countries of Europe won by them. To all other a lily - the bank note. It was represented on the Roman coins and the French florins of times of Louis IХ, and Louis ХIV has started in due time in a turn money in the form of gold and silver lilies. France in general named the country of lilies, and the French king - the King of lilies.

For today in the International register of lilies it is presented about 4000 grades of this fine plant, and the number them continues to grow. It is annually registered about 300 new grades! Amazes a variety of their forms and shades - from the refined grace snow-white лонгифлорумов to dazzling brightness of the Asian hybrids. Each grade has only to it an inherent smell - from sweet exciting to a lung, almost imperceptible. That it was easier to be guided in this sea of the beauty, all grades are grouped in nine sections, the lilies based on an origin and the general biological features. These are the Asian hybrids, Martagon-hybrids, Snow-white and Haltsedonsky hybrids, the American hybrids, Dlinnotsvetkovye hybrids, Tubular hybrids, Orleansky hybrids, Orientalnye hybrids, terry grades.

In a midland of Russia it is possible to grow up any grades except for the subtropical. Martagony and Azaitsky are most unpretentious and cold-resistant, are more exacting Tubular and Orleansky, they also are cold-resistant. The most heliophilous - Snow-white hybrids. The most whimsical and the least widespread in Russia - the American hybrids. More often in our gardens there are some grades grown most fond to Russians.

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