General Sherman

Dunbar, 1917

‘General Sherman’, S. vulgaris
Dunbar 1917; S V
syn. – Dunbar no. 225
{‘Marlyensis Pallida’ × ? }
Dunbar, Florists Exch., 831 [Sept. 22, 1923]; McKelvey, The Lilac, 304 [1928]; Wister, Lilacs for America, 48 [1942], 30 [1953]; Photo on Jorgovani/Lilacs 2015 DVD.
Named for William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820-1891, American soldier.
cultivar name presumed registered 1953; name established and accepted.

Международный регистр названий культиваров рода Syringa L.

General Sherman Dunbar according to Horticulture, XXVI. 35 (1917), name only; XXVII. 534 (1918), “… single, with varying shades of porcclain lavender.” — Dunbar in Florists Exch., September 22, 1923, 831, “… has immense, many shouldered upright clusters of single flowers, of which the color might be described as creamy lavender. We consider this perhaps one of the most beautiful Lilacs in cultivation;” Litt. ined. October 3, 1923, “Flowers single, 7/8 of an inch across, deep lavender in bud, creamy lavender lilac when fully open with faint tinge of porcelain blue in the center, spikes 3 to 4 compound, well formed. Branching habit compact.”
Produced by John Dunbar of the Dept. of Parks, Rochester, N. Y. In a letter the late Mr. Dunbar informed me that this was a seedling (no. 225 Dunbar) of Marlyensis pallida, named by him in 1917.
Notes on plant in Arnold Arboretum (plant received from Dept. of Parks, Rochester, N. Y., in November, 1922; no. 11,420 Arn. Arb.). Flowers single, symmetrical, large; corolla-lobes broad, rounded at apex, cucullatc; tone pale; color in bud Vinaceous-Lilac (XLIV.) to Purplish Lilac (XXXVII.); when expanded Purplish Lilac to Light Pinkish Lilac without, Light Lobelia Violet (XXXVII.) marked with much white at throat within. Clusters open, symmetrical, large.

“THE LILAC: A Monograph” Susan Delano McKelvey, MacMillan, New York, 1928

Потрясающий розовый достался сорту ‘Генерал Шерман’ (‘General Sherman’). Он напоминает натуральный перламутр своими переливами разных оттенков розовато-голубовато-лилового.

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