Old Glory

Egolf & Pooler, 2006

‘Old Glory’, S. ×hyacinthiflora
Egolf & Pooler; 2006; S III-VII
syn. – NA62974; PI 641803
{S. ×hyacinthiflora ‘Sweet Charity’ × S. ×hyacinthiflora ‘Pocahontas’}
USDA-ARS Notice of Release [March 24, 2006]; Pooler, HortScience 43(2):544–545 [2008]; nomenclatural standard deposited at United States National Arboretum Herbarium (NA); NA-0041455; Hanburyana 4:56 [2009]; Photo on Jorgovani/Lilacs 2015 DVD.
Old Glory is a common nickname for the Flag of the United States, bestowed by William Driver, an early nineteenth century American sea captain.
cultivar name registered 2007; name established and accepted.

 Международный регистр названий культиваров рода Syringa L.

Syringa ‘Old Glory’
(NA 62974; PI 641803)
USDA Zones 5-7.
‘Old Glory’ is a selection from a controlled hybridization between Syringa ‘Sweet Charity’ and Syringa x hyacinthiflora ‘Pocahontas’ made by Don Egolf in 1978 and released in March 2006. It is a product of the lilac hybridization program at the U.S. National Arboretum and follows the release of ‘Betsy Ross’ in 2000.
‘Old Glory’ was selected for its abundant fragrant bluish-purple flowers, rounded growth habit, and disease tolerant foliage. It shows good field tolerance to Cerco-spora blight and Pseudomonas syringae in warmer climates where these diseases are a problem.
Height and width: 11.5 feet tall and 13.5 feet wide in 25 years.
Habit: Deciduous, relatively compact, rounded shrub.
Foliage: Thick, dark green, mildew-tolerant foliage.
Flowers: Medium size, abundant, bluish-purple fragrant inflorescences in early spring.
Semi-hardwood cuttings taken in late spring immediately after flowering root in six weeks under mist with 3000-5000 ppm IBA, or it can be tissue cultured.
Background planting in the shrub border, specimen plant, deciduous hedge or screen, mass planted in large areas.

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