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Vol. 6, Issue 3, Jun 2016, 569 - 576
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VARIETAL EVALUATION OF ASIATIC HYBRID LILIES

UNDER OPEN AND POLY HOUSE CONDITION
S.K. BHAT, S.K. PATRA & C.R. MOHANTY
Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Agriculture, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Khordha, Odisha, India
ABSTRACT
An experiment was carried out to evaluate the performance of 7 Asiatic hybrid lily varieties viz,. Yelloween,
Fuziana, Munich, Belgrade, Monger bay, Active, Coolgreen grown under two growing environments i.e open condition
and low cost Polyhouse in the department of floriculture and landscaping, OUAT, Bhubaneswar during December 2013
to March 2014, with an objective to find out the most suitable variety and ideal growing environment with respect to
growth, flowering and bulb production of Lilium. The trail was conducted in Completely Randomised Designed with three
applications. The result of the study revealed that seven Asiatic hybrid Lily varieties performed satisfactorily with respect
to growth, flowering and bulb production. Variety Munich recorded maximum length and diameter of flowering shoot,
whereas var. Fuziana was earliest to opening of flower which was followed by Munich. Maximum leaf length, width

bulb weight. Maximum delay in bud break and flowering was recorded in var. Monger bay, however it recorded
maximum number of leaves and plants per plant. Between the two different growing environments tried, performance of
polyhouse was most satisfactory which improved several growth, Floral and bulb characters. Increase in plant height,
number of leaves , leaf length and leaf area were observed in polyhouse (E2) grown plants as compared to open condition
(E1). Polyhouse grown plants also showed improvement with respect to number of flower buds, length of flowering, shoot
and flower stalk, width of flower, diameter of flower stock and also bulb diameter and weight. On the other hand open

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along with leaf area was recorded with variety Belgrade and it also recorded maximum flower width, bulb diameter and

condition exhibited earliness in bud break and flower opening, maximum bud length and width. Interaction of variety
with growing environment could influence only few characters. Opening of the flower from planting was earliest in
variety Munich grown under E1 and the maximum delay for the same was observed in variety Cool green grown under
E2. Variety Belgrade grown under E2 recorded maximum flower width which was at par with variety Cool green grown
under E1 and the minimum width of flower was recorded in variety Yelloween grown under E1. Variety Fuziana grown
under E2 recorded maximum length of flowering shoot which was at par with variety Munich grown under the same
condition. While minimum was recorded in variety Yelloween grown under E1.
KEYWORDS: Hybrid Lily, Environment, Evaluation, Open Condition, Poly House

Received: Apr 26, 2016; Accepted: Jun 06, 2016; Published: Jun 17, 2016; Paper Id.: IJASRJUN2016069

INTRODUCTION
Among various flowers grown commercially, lilium is one of the horticulturally most important genera for
cut flower and pot plant production. The genus lilium belongs to the family liliaceae. Liliums are one of the most
beautiful and popular ornamental bulbous plants. The appearance, beauty and color of the blooms are spectacular
and very attractive. Hybrid lilies are exceptionally good as cut flower in pot plants. These are large flowers, wide
range of color and vase life. Lilium hybrids have a wide range of colors and shape which are produced from
inter-specific hybridisation. The popularity of these hybrids, especially Asiatic and oriental types is increasing

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bot as cut
flower and pot plant (Lian et al., 2003). Hybrid lilies are the result of genetic crossing between lily species. Lilium ranked
fourth among the top ten cut flowers in the global flower market upto 2005 (Des Raj, 2008). It is also high in price and
very popular, due to its richness and variety of colors and vast no of flowers it produces (Shirav and Rostami, 2008 ). In
odisha, Lilium is gaining popularity both as cut flower as well was garden plant. However, almost all the cut flowers of
lilium available in the florist shop are being procured from Bangalore, Pune and other places of the country. Although the
agro climatic condition of the state is quite favourable for this flower crop, its commercial cultivation has not yet been
started by the flower growers due to lack of knowledge about its production technology and unavailability of quality
planting materials. Among several factors influencing growth, yield and quality of flowers, including lilium, selection of
suitable varieties/ Hybrids for the local agro climatic situation plays a significant role in addition to appropriate cultural
practices and management skills. Growing environment is also another important factor which influences various growth
and flowering parameters to a greater extend. In this context protective cultivation is the need of the hour which ensures
higher production of quality flowers that fetches higher income to the flower growers. However, information on these
aspects under agro climatic conditions of odisha with respect to commercial cultivation of lilium is lacking. Therefore it is
necessary to evaluate performance of different Asiatic hybrid lilium varieties with respect to growth and flowering and to
determine the effect of two different growing environments viz., open and poly-house condition on growth and flowering
of above lilium varieties and also to find out the interaction effect of variety with growing environment if any with respect
to growth and flowering.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The present experiment was carried out at Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Agriculture,
OUAT, Bhubaneswar to evaluate seven Asiatic hybrid lilies under open and poly house condition during the year
2013-2014. The experiment was carried out in form of a pot culture in two different environments in Completely
Randomized Design. Number of replication was 6, number of plants per variety per replication was 4 and total number of
plants per replications was 28. And the treatment consisted of two factors, viz., cultivars and growing environment.
Number of cultivars 7 and number of growing environments was 2.The detail of the treatments is given below;
Table 1
Cultivars
Yelloween
Fuziana
Munich
Belgrade
Monger Bay
Aktive
Cool green

Code
V1
V2
V3
V4
V5
V6
V7

Colour
Yellow
Light pink
Light pink
Orange
Pink
Yellow
White

Table 2
Environment
Open condition
Poly house

Code
E1
E2

Observations were recorded on growth parameters such as plant height, number of leaves per plant, leaf length,
leaf width, basal stem diameter, leaf area after one month of planting of bulbs, on different floral characters like number of
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flower buds per shoot, days taken for bud break from planting, flower bud length, flower bud width, days taken for first
flower opening from planting, width of flower, length of flower, length of flowering shoot, diameter of flowering shoot,
number of flowers per shoot, length of flower stalk and bulb characters like diameter of bulb, weight of bulbs per plant. All
the data concerning various growth parameters, flowering components, flower and bulb characters were analyzed
statistically.

Figure 1: Asiatic Hybrid Lily varieties under study

Figure 2: Asiatic Hybrid Lily Varieties under Open Condition

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Figure 3: Asiatic Hybrid Lily Varieties under Poly House Condition

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

The result of the experiment reviled that all the Asiatic hybrid lily varieties performed satisfactorily irrespective of
growing environment although these exhibited variation among themselves with respect to several parameters related to
growth, flowering and bulb production. Variety yellow in produced maximum stalk length of flower among all varieties
under trial. However, it recorded minimum stem diameter and width of flower. Variety Fuziana has significantly short
leaves. However, it exhibited earliest flower bud break and also recorded maximum bud length. This variety was also
earliest for opening of first flower after planting although the length of flower was found to be minimum. The difference in
various parameters among the cultivars may be due to different genetic makeup of cultivars (Barik, 2013). Variety Munich
produced the tallest plant with maximum stem diameter. Besides, it also produced maximum length and diameter of
flowering shoot. Significantly longer leaves with maximum leaf width and leaf area were recorded in variety Belgrade.
Similar variations in leaf width of Asiatic lilium varieties were also recorded by Pandey et al. (2008), Rajiv kumar et
al.(2011) and Natraj et al.(2014). Difference in vegetative characters of different cultivars may be attributed to varied
growth rate and their genetic makeup as a result, variation in phenotypic expression are expected to occur. Similar results
with respect to vegetative characters were also observed by Mishra (1997), Naik et al.(2006) and Barik (2013) in gladiolus,
gerbera and lilium respectively. Besides, width of flower, diameter and weight of bulbs were also maximum in this variety.
However, it recorded minimum stem diameter among all the varieties. Variety Monger bay had maximum number of
leaves per plant. Besides, it also had maximum number of buds and flowers per shoot. However, this variety exhibited
maximum delay for bud break and opening of first flower in the plant. On the other hand plant height, leaf width, basal
stem diameter, width of flower bud, length and diameter of flowering shoot were observed to be minimum in this variety.
Variety Aktive recorded maximum width of flower bud. On the other hand it recorded minimum leaf area, number of
flower buds and flowers per shoot. Besides, diameter of flowering shoot, flower stalk length, diameter and weight of bulbs
per plant were also observed to be minimum with this variety. Although flower length was observed to be maximum in

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variety Cool green, it had minimum number of leaves per plant. Besides, it also recorded minimum bud length among all
the varieties under study. Result of the present study was found matching with the findings of Kumar et al. (2011) and
Negi et al. (2014) who also reported the similar variation in lilium cultivars .
Performance of plants in respect of several parameters was found better under polyhouse condition while the plant
exhibited better performance under open condition for some of the parameters under study. Plants grown under E1 i.e open
condition recorded maximum width of leaf, flower bud, width as well as length of flowers. Besides, it was earliest with
respect to opening of first flower from planting. Plants grown under E2 i.e polyhouse produced thge tallest plants with
maximum number of leaves. Similar result was reported by Shiva and Dadlani (2002) in gladiolus. Besides, other
characters like leaf length, leaf area, length of flowering shoot, length of flowering stalk, diameter and weight of bulbs
were also significantly improved under this condition.
Interaction of variety with growing environment was found significant for days taken for opening of first flower,
width of flower and length of flower in shoot. Opening of first flower was earliest in var Munich under open condition
followed by and at par with variety Fuziana
Table 1: Evaluation of Asiatic Hybrid Lily Varieties in Different Growing Environments with Respect to Plant
Height, Number of Leaves per Plant, Leaf Length, Leaf Width, Basal Stem Diameter and Leaf Area
Treatment

Plant Height
(cm)

Variety
V1
35.15
V2
46.08
V3
48.58
V4
35.67
V5
23.15
V6
36.33
V7
25.63
SE (M)
1.90
CD at 5%
5.52
Environment
E1
33.30
E2
38.30
SE (M)
1.02
CD at 5%
2.95
Variety X Environment
V1 E 1
28.55
V2 E 1
42.17
V3 E 1
44.5
V4 E 1
34.83
V5 E 1
23.47
V6 E 1
34.67
V7 E 1
24.92
V1 E 2
41.75
V2 E 2
50.00
V3 E 2
52.68
V4 E 2
36.50
V5 E 2
22.83
V6 E 2
38.00
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Number of
Leaves per
Plant

Leaf Length
(cm)

30 Days after Planting

Leaf Width Basal Stem
(cm)
Diameter
(cm)

Leaf Area
(cm2)
(45 Days
after
Planting)

68.32
74.30
80.75
73.75
88.71
73.67
64.67
2.45
7.11

4.98
3.90
4.27
5.90
5.25
4.67
4.71
0.26
0.76

1.12
1.09
1.06
1.51
0.77
0.79
1.29
0.04
0.13

0.79
0.92
1.00
0.97
0.79
0.80
0.83
0.02
0.06

5.82
4.86
5.21
9.02
5.88
4.81
8.65
0.48
1.41

72.74
77.02
1.31
3.80

4.60
5.03
0.14
0.41

1.13
1.05
0.02
0.07

0.87
0.88
0.01
NS

5.78
6.86
0.26
0.75

66.30
73.00
75.42
74.08
82.05
70.00
68.33
70.33
75.58
86.08
73.42
95.36
77.33

4.42
3.71
4.32
5.51
5.00
4.51
4.70
5.55
4.10
4.21
6.28
5.51
4.83

1.21
1.13
1.13
1.51
0.82
0.79
1.29
1.03
1.06
0.99
1.51
0.71
0.8

0.76
0.95
1.00
0.96
0.80
0.81
0.83
0.84
0.90
0.99
0.98
0.79
0.79

4.61
4.61
4.84
8.01
5.74
4.35
8.3
7.03
5.11
5.57
10.02
6.02
5.27
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V7 E 2
SE (M)
CD at 5%

26.33
2.67
NS

61.00
3.46
NS

Table 1: Contd.,
4.72
0.37
NS

1.28
0.06
NS

0.83
0.03
NS

8.99
0.68
NS

Table 2: Evaluation of Asiatic Hybrid Lily Varieties in Different Growing Environments with Respect to Number of
Buds per Shoot, days taken for Bud Break, Flower Bud Length, Flower Bud Length, Flower Bud Width, Days
taken for Opening of Flower and Width of Flower
Treatment
Number of
Days taken
Flower Bud Flower Bud Days taken
Width of
Buds per
for Bud
Length
Width
for
Flower
Shoot
Break from
(cm)
(cm)
Opening of
(cm)
Planting
Flower
Variety
V1
4.75
50.63
8.67
7.73
53.96
14.36
V2
4.21
46.88
8.85
8.05
51.12
15.55
V3
4.50
47.29
8.75
8.34
51.42
15.27
V4
3.38
51.72
8.47
7.94
54.56
17.89
V5
6.69
57.72
8.29
7.04
58.54
16.06
V6
3.00
49.88
8.75
9.21
53.13
14.99
V7
3.10
55.11
7.98
7.78
58.03
17.75
SE (M)
0.19
0.68
0.17
0.16
0.57
0.27
CD at 5%
0.54
1.98
0.49
0.45
1.67
0.77
Environment
E1
4.18
51.23
8.71
8.40
53.27
15.84
E2
4.29
51.4
8.36
7.61
55.52
16.12
SE (M)
0.10
0.36
0.09
0.08
0.31
0.14
CD at 5%
NS
NS
NS
0.24
0.89
NS
Variety X Environment
V1 E 1
4.33
50.58
8.73
8.02
53.17
13.99
V2 E 1
4.50
47.33
9.15
8.55
49.65
15.44
V3 E 1
4.25
46.17
9.00
8.86
49.5
14.98
V4 E 1
3.67
51.42
8.57
8.22
53.33
17.42
V5 E 1
6.55
59.17
8.42
7.33
59.33
16.50
V6 E 1
2.92
50.00
9.18
9.98
51.33
14.29
V7 E 1
3.03
53.97
7.94
7.88
56.55
18.27
V1 E 2
5.17
50.68
8.61
7.43
54.75
14.72
V2 E 2
3.92
46.12
8.54
7.56
52.58
15.66
V3 E 2
4.75
48.12
8.51
7.82
53.33
15.56
V4 E 2
3.08
52.03
8.36
7.58
55.78
18.35
V5 E 2
6.83
56.28
8.16
6.75
57.75
15.62
V6 E 2
3.08
49.75
8.32
8.44
54.92
15.68
V7 E 2
3.17
56.25
8.01
7.67
59.90
17.23
SE (M)
0.26
0.96
0.24
0.22
0.81
0.37
CD at 5%
NS
NS
NS
NS
2.34
1.09
Table 3: Evaluation of Asiatic Hybrid Lily Varieties in Different Growing Environments with Respect to Length of
Flower, Length of Flowering Shoot, Diameter of Flowering Shoot, Number of Flowers per Shoot, Length of Flower
stalk, Diameter of Bulb and Bulb Weight
Treatment

Length of
Flower
(cm)

Length of
Flowering
Shoot
(cm)

V1
V2

10.66
10.35

40.46
50.44

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Diameter
Number
of
of
Flowering
Flowers
Shoot (cm) per Shoot
Variety
0.82
4.53
0.90
3.79

Length of
Flower
Stalk
(cm)

Diameter
of Bulb
(cm)

Bulb
Weight
(g)

5.99
4.39

11.04
10.99

5.31
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V3
V4
V5
V6
V7
SE (M)
CD at 5%

10.46
10.87
10.77
10.47
11.36
0.18
0.51

51.17
46.35
33.67
42.17
37.23
1.40
4.06

E1
E2
SE (M)
CD at 5%

10.99
10.42
0.09
0.27

39.01
47.13
0.75
2.17

V1 E 1
V2 E 1
V3 E 1
V4 E 1
V5 E 1
V6 E 1
V7 E 1
V1 E 2
V2 E 2
V3 E 2
V4 E 2
V5 E 2
V6 E 2
V7 E 2
SE (M)
CD at 5%

11.18
10.62
10.88
10.98
11.00
10.46
11.82
10.14
10.08
10.04
10.76
10.54
10.47
10.91
0.25
NS

32.00
45.12
47.08
42.33
32.78
39.46
33.98
48.92
55.46
55.25
50.37
34.56
44.87
40.47
1.98
5.75

Table 3: Contd.,
0.99
3.83
0.96
3.26
0.78
6.17
0.78
2.86
0.82
3.00
0.02
0.15
0.06
0.45
Environment
0.86
3.83
0.87
4.01
0.01
0.08
NS
NS
Variety X Environment
0.78
4.08
0.92
3.75
1.01
3.83
0.94
3.42
0.76
5.92
0.82
2.92
0.80
2.92
0.84
4.97
0.88
3.83
0.98
3.83
0.97
3.11
0.81
6.42
0.75
2.8
0.83
3.08
0.31
0.22
NS
NS

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4.55
5.09
4.61
3.97
5.19
0.19
0.56

11.46
12.04
10.16
10.03
10.57
0.36
1.05

5.47
7.14
4.56
4.52
4.61
0.42
1.23

4.76
4.89
0.1
0.3

9.30
12.49
0.19
0.56

3.22
7.15
0.23
0.66

5.75
4.33
4.16
4.94
4.48
4.19
5.47
6.22
4.46
4.95
5.23
4.73
3.75
4.91
0.27
NS

9.31
9.14
9.43
10.67
8.11
8.31
10.13
12.76
12.83
13.48
13.41
12.21
11.76
11.01
0.51
NS

3.14
2.45
2.88
5.57
2.08
2.59
3.84
7.47
6.96
8.06
8.72
7.05
6.44
5.38
0.6
NS

And Aktive under same growing condition. On the other hand maximum delay in opening of first flower was
noticed in variety Cool green under poly house condition. Maximum width of flower was recorded under variety Belgrade
under poly house followed by and at par with variety Cool green grown under open condition whereas it was observed to
be minimum in variety Yelloween under open condition among all the treatment combinations. Length of flowering shoot
was maximum in variety Fuziana grown under poly house followed by an at par with variety Munich grown under same
growing environment. On the other hand variety Yelloween followed by variety Monger bay and Cool green under open
condition recorded shorter flowering shoot without showing significant difference from each other.

CONCLUSIONS
The result of the study concluded that all seven Asiatic hybrid lily varieties performed satisfactorily under open
and low cost polyhouse condition although significant variation was noted among them with respect to various parameters
related to growth, flowering and bulb production. However, out of two growing environments tried, performance of plants
under polyhouse (E2) was significantly better than those grown under open condition (E1). Plants grown under E2
exhibited better growth in terms of height of plant, number of leaves per plant, leaf length and leaf area. Besides flower
characters like length of flowering shoot and length of stock were significantly improved under this condition. In addition
significant improvement in diameter and weight of bulbs was also noted under polyhouse condition. Whereas plants grown
under open condition had greater width of leaf, flower buds and length of flowers. Besides plants under this environment
(E1) found earliest to flowering from planting. For commercial production of cut flowers, all these varieties of Asiatic lilies
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