dellac said:I have a gut feeling your interesting white seedling is a Sweet Surrender baby. I think Harvey was fooling around behind Winnipeggy's back!
Indeed that resulting seedling would seem much more logical. We all can make mistakes, and I have found disagreeing data in my notes before. Usually I am able to determine which record is correct, but over the years there are a few (especially in the earlier days) that are forever unresolvable. Regarding this particular seedling, your more believable physical observation has prompted me to do some rechecking. I only have one other back-up note to check: the actual label in the garden, but it's under the snow now. So far everything agrees: my garden map rendering, my hybridizing notebook, the original hybridizing label attached to the pod(I keep them all exactly for this purpose), and my hybridizing spread sheet(which shows I did not use Sweet Surrender that year at all). I only mention all this to stress how important it can be to retain all the "evidence", even if you may never need it.
I do agree that the Lilium from Harvey has some less than desirable qualities, including rather thin petals, although they are brighter yellow than in the pic. I've kept it all these years for sentimental value, and the foliage has such a lacquered shine, even more so than Lilium maculatum. Harvey didn't even dabble in hybridizing, and I don't know if the cultivar was named or not. He was "just" a lily lover, and a member of the North Star Lily Society, so he could have gotten hold of unnamed seedlings from the breeders of that era.
Incidentally, Lilium from Harvey produces quantities of stem bulbils. The trait remains in, say, a third of the seedlings, but all of those possess a diminished effect.
