说不尽的丁香.....
丁香时节,说一说丁香,也还不过分。个人是植物迷,虽然家门口有一棵白丁香,
一直还以为源于中国。这回仔细了,发现不是,但具体是哪个品种,还得一番鉴定。
先说说怎么个丁香时节(Lilac Time)。以前谈到竹子连根脉成片,一棵竹子开花
死亡了接着便是一片,够诗意,后来知道就连异脉移植了的竹子也生死同脉,就更
神奇了。说丁香时节,还是因为大多数丁香源于Syringa vulgaris,英文Common
Lilacs,中文作“欧洲丁香”。
人工培育的品种多不都是种子繁殖,更多无性培植,比如嫁接,扦插等。这样一类
分衍出来的品种虽花叶形态迥异但生命也关联,故而花园Syringa vulgaris的上百
品种子系都能感应在相当的时间开放,空气中充满丁香的香馥。这便是丁香时光了。
许多不以为然的东西,一仔细了,才能发现内底的趣味,就象品一首好诗,大诗人
的佳作真能品出其个中真味,非得要类似的经历。这个对一般人就是奢求了,不说
经历大时代,就是大诗人的社会知见,投入的深度,用心,也让我望尘莫及。谁说
一首诗就那么好解了呢?
读了Jennifer Bennett的LILACS for the garden,便要亲自走访一下丁香园。书末
推荐纽约州只有两处,幸好有一处布鲁克林植物园,那里有21species & 130cultivars。
幸好这植物园我以前常去,熟悉那一片丁香林。不明白的时代,也只有一个Syringa的
名,Lilac是俗名。也深知早晚要细细理会一番,今生有幸,倒也到了理会的时辰。
Syringa的名源于古希腊变芦笛的林仙名,原应是音乐的林芙,这里倒是把声香通感
化了,可见香味的穿透力。今天早晨,上完了西班牙语课,便背上包到布鲁克林植
物园走访丁香。
今天天气阴,偶尔一点阳光,但还是冷清。樱花倒是绽放得不象话,日本园林的杜
鹃也繁花似景。但我还是为丁香去的,心无旁骛。我带上书,带上笔记本,先把园
林逛一通,便停在丁香圃的南端,那里有块标牌,是木樨科(Olive family),有些
中国女贞,尚未开放,我最先接触的丁香,名字上带有喀布尔,看来源于阿富汗。
名字我给一下:
Syringa protolaciniata 'Kabul',照片就免了。
忘了提一下,在植物园书店我看到一本Emily Dickinson的标本集,制作那么精美的
植物标本啊!幸好纽约植物园不久要搞迪金森诗意园展,那时更可以了解这位隐逸
女诗人。在标本集的初始,我看到一节她写丁香的附录,先抄一下吧:
The Lilac is an ancient shrub
but ancienter than that
The firmamental Lilac
Upon the Hill tonight --
The Sun subsiding on his Course
Bequeathes this final Plant
To Contemplation - not to Touche -
The Flower of Occident.
Of one Corolla is the West -
The Calyx is the Earth -
The Capsules burnished Seeds the Stars -
...
(#1241, about 1872)
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/11193
我只是在咖啡写贴子,怎么写全没有一个章法,最忌讳成文章了,被别的小报刨头
割尾转载去,害人害己。也是因为贴子不严格,错别字都懒得纠正,写过就过去了,
关健是促进自己学习。其实我写诗也差不多,每次写诗都还是自己认识上一个提高。
这不,写了一首丁香花便投入到丁香时节中去了,这哪里容易?
说丁香时节,不是Syringa vulgaris子系的就不是一个周期。这喀布尔,还有喜玛
拉雅丁香就得单立园圃,也是金贵!Himalaya lilac学名Syringa emodi,还有波斯
丁香,都未必丁香时节。这样也显得清静,我把在园林走访的丁香时节列一下:
Syringa vulgaris, Common Lilacs
S.V. 'Dr. W. Bugala'
S.V. 'Kapitan Teliga'
S.V. 'Nadezhda'
S.V. 'Krasavitsa Moskvy'
S.V. 'Mechta'
S.V. 'President Grevy'
S.V. 'Ludwig Spaeth'
S.V. 'Volcan'
S.V. 'Lucie Baltet'
S.V. 'Mme Casimir Perier'
S.V. 'Marceau'
S.V. 'Macrostachya'
S.V. 'Firmament'
S.V. 'Olivier de Serves'
S.V. 'Mme F. Morel'
S.V. 'Edith Carell'
S.V. 'Pink mist'
S.V. 'Mme Antoine Buchner'
S.V. 'Desfontaines'
S.V. 'Jean Mace'
S.V. 'Saturnale'
S.V. 'Condorcet'
S.V. 'De Miribel'
S.V. 'Duc de Massa'
S.V. 'Mrs. Edward Harding'
S.V. 'Maurice de Vilmorin'
S.V. 'Maximowicz'
S.V. 'Comte Adrien de Montebello'
S.V. 'George Bellair'
S.V. 'Leon Gambelta'
S.V. 'Gaudi Chaud'
S.V. 'Gismonda'
S.V. 'Thunberg'
S.V. 'Katherine Havemoyer'
S.V. 'Mme Lemoine'
S.V. 'President Poincare'
S.V. 'Hippolyte Maringer'
S.V. 'Charles Joly'
S.V. 'Emile Gentil'
S.V. 'Marie Legraye'
S.V. 'Naudin'
S.V. 'Magellan'
S.V. 'Alphonse Lavallee'
S.V. 'Carmen'
S.V. 'William Robinson'
S.V. 'Waldeck-Rousseau'
S.V. 'Comte Horace Choizeul'
S.V. 'Paul Thirion'
S.V. 'Laplace'
S.V. 'Negro'
S.V. 'Victor Lemoine'
S.V. 'Perle von Stuttgart'
S.V. 'Mrs. W.E. Marshall'
S.V. 'Frau William Pfizer'
S.V. 'Congo'
S.V. 'General Sheridan'
S.V. 'Serene'
S.V. 'Glory'
S.V. 'President Roosevelt'
S.V. 'Primrose'
S.V. 'Sarah Sands'
S.V. 'President Lincoln'
S.V. 'Romance'
S.V. 'Sensation'
S.V. 'Priscilla'
S.V. 'Mme Florent Stephan'
S.V. 'Andre Csizik'
S.V. 'Mrs. Ellen Willmott'
S.V. 'Bleuâtre'
S.V. 'Monge'
S.V. 'Mme Catheine Bruchet'
S.V. 'Vauban'
S.V. 'Albert F. Holden'
S.V. 'Rochester'
S.V. 'Dappled Dawn'
S.V. 'Chris'
这不是维基或是丁香书上抄的,是园中一个个走访的,因而格外亲切。要说丁香时节
欧洲丁香所有子系连脉,there are several hundred cultivars, all of which -
French or not - some times called French hybrids in honor of the pioneering and
prolific work done by Victor Lemoine, his wife Marie, their son Emile and grandson
Henri from the mid-1800s until the nursery closed in 1955.
Syringa vulgaris 'Marie Legraye'.
&
IN PRAISE OF MARIE
The lilacs I have are some of the beautiful kinds raised in France, for which we can
never be thankful enough to our good neighbors across the Channel. The white
variety 'Marie Legraye' always remains my favorite. Some are larger and whiter and
have the trusses more evenly and closely filled, but this beautiful Marie fills one with
a satisfying conviction as of something that is just right, that has arrived at the point
of just the best and most lovable kind of beauty and has been wisely content to stay
there, not attempting to pass beyond and excel itself. Its beauty is modest and
reserved, and temperate and full of refinement. The color has a deliciously tender
warmth of white, and as the truss is not over-ull, there is room for a delicate play of
warm half-light within its recesses.
--Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden (1890)
to be continued...
- posted on 04/18/2010
说园中有二十一个种,我倒没撞见那么多。我中文书中说中国丁香就有二十七个种,
但英文书上归化丁香属一共只有二十三个种。也无奈,中文世界有点自我封闭,比
如把美国的国花定义成中国的月季,还有玫瑰源于中国之说,都有点子虚乌有。玫
瑰我也没有仔细研究,但愿这些不是所谓的一厢情愿,只系误会。
当然植物分科分类中有权威的问题,中国在蕨类上有权威,是秦仁昌的功绩。我在
植物园中只找到以下的一些种,还不纯粹:
Syringa reticulata
Japanese Tree Lilac - Syringa reticulata ssp. reticulata
Cut-leaf Lilac - Syringa x lacininta
Syringa protolaciniata 'Kabul'
Early Lilac - Syringa oblata ssp 'dilatata'
Syringa pubescens var potaninii
Pinnate-leaved Lilac - Syringa pinnatifolia
Late Lilac - Syringa villosa
Himalaya Lilac - Syringa emodi
Chinese Lilac - Syringa x chinensis
Little-leaf Lilac - Syringa pubescens ssp. microphylla 'Superba'
Yunan Lilac - Syringa yunnanensis 'Prophecy'
Syringa Patula 'Miss Kim'
Nodding Lilac - Syringa reflexa(S. komarowii)
Syringa Kamibayashi
Syringa x Quatrobrida 'Dancing Druid'
Syringa 'Hedin' - Syringa villosa X Sweginzowii Hedin
(其中云南丁香,喜玛拉雅显然是中国种.)
丁香除了Common Lilac的丁香时节,French hybrid,还有一些别的系:Chinese
lilac。除了名称,与中国还真无关,系Syringa protolaciniata与欧洲丁香的杂交,
园中我撞见的品种有:
Syringa x chinensis 'Orchid beauty'
S x c. 'alba'
S x c. 'Saugeana'
Syring x chinensis 'Alba'
风信子花系,Hyacinth lilac, Syringa x hyacinthiflora, American/Canadian lilac,
是欧洲丁香'Amurea Plena'与Early Lilac - Syringa oblata subsp. oblata的杂
交。故又有称Early hybrid,有风信子一样的卷花瓣,Victor Lemoine的成绩。以
后加拿大选用S. oblata ssp 'dilata'杂交出更耐寒的cold-hard hybrids。我书中
作两大归类:Cold-Winter Hyacinthiflora Lilacs, Warm-winter Hyacinthiflora
Lilacs,父本依上述。园中有不少品种,我走访的有:
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Lamartine'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Villars'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Montesquieu'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Melissa Oakes'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Assessippi'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Louvois'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Maiden blush'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Blanche Sweet'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Anabel'
S. x hyacinthiflora 'Esther Staley'
http://www.lottah.com/lilacs/images.htm &
"IN THE DOORYARD FRONTING AN OLD FARM-HOUSE NEAR THE WHITE-WASH'D PALINGS,
STANDS THE LILAC-BUSH TALL-GROWING WITH HEART-SHAPED LEAVES OF RICH GREEN,
WITH MANY A POINTED BLOSSOM RISING DELICATE, WITH THE PERFUME STONG I LOVE,
WITH EVERY LEAF A MIRACLE - AND FROM THIS BUSH IN THE DOORYARD,
WITH DELICATE-COLOR'D BLOSSOM AND HEART-SHAPED LEAVES OF RICH GREEN,
A SPRIG WITH ITS FLOWER I BREAK."
--Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
to be continued...
- posted on 04/18/2010
愈读,愈发现丁香难写。写客体终究难,才花了不少时间把前文核实一下,就鼓不起
勇气再写了。还好手头杂料尚多,我有一本植物诗的书,Flora Poetica,是在南非
开普顿植物园买的,这么多年一直珍爱。这一首:
Forcing White Lilacs -- Alice Fulton
First the cold
the being held
to the ground.
Then to see things
the police won't
use, how his eyes
are tortoise shell, cracked
shoes layered with blacking,
the cigar and sweat smell
in the clothes he rips
while snow drives
into her skin.
Her fear flaps at him
like a bat's shrieks
rebounding from trees
and she already dreads
the time it will take
to forget the deep wavy tread
in his hair.
He is a squeezed tube
spurting words that knife
and twine like eels
under ice. He is all flesh
that wants into
hers. She forces herself
to think of anything
else: the flakes
a veil of buds above
his shoulder she can see
light years of stars
yet night has knit
a stokcing for his face.
He could be anyone
in the mild scum
of moon he leaves
a foam on her jeans
she thinks of white
lilacs white lilacs
the first time thighs
like packed snow
a sibilance of pigeons:
her cries unwinding
from his ears.
(1979)
http://books.google.com/books?id=vdlu9NelkeEC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Forcing+White+Lilacs+First+++the+cold,+alice+fulton&source=bl&ots=Fsra710itS&sig=SBvOaUdDcFqRuMrEaOadh9yK6Mc&hl=en&ei=UX7MS7K0OoK78gbgqKzDAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
这Forcing Lilacs怕是与Lilac Time对应,我抄书澄释一下:
Forced lilacs for the Christmas market are to western Europe what poinsettias are to
the United States and Canada.
In commercial forcing, lilac shoots grafted densely on rootstocks are stored in green
houses whee the temperature and atmosphere can be adjusted to a schedule that
initiates floweing in early December. At home, the easiest way to force lilacs is to
pick budded branches in early spring and bring them indoors to a cool place to bloom.
You won't have lilacs for Christmas but you'll have them ahead of outdoors. 'Palibin' is
one of the easiest lilacs to force at home.
丁香的香,除了Common Lilacs,加上二十三个种的各系列品种,也跟上回提的辣椒
的辣一样,有级别的:
Perfume molecules come into contact with nerves behind the bridge of our nose.
Thus begins a short circuit to the brain and the emotions. A part of our brain so
primitive that it allowed our ancestors to survive by sniffing out danger, food and sex
makes the decision: pleasant, indifferent, unpleasant. Smell is the oldest of the five
senses and is linked with the basic behaviors of approach and avoidance, the
foundation of emotion.
They rated the lilacs from 0(no fragrance) to 3(max). From 195 plants sampled in
1982, ended up with a mean rating of 0.78. From 261 plants sniffed in 1983, the
mean was 1.3.
Over the two years, the fragrance of the wild S. vulgaris rated 0.75, a little less than
the mean. The only S. vulgaris cultivars rated above 2 were 'Evangeline,"Henri
Martin,"Pascal' and the highest, 'Serene,' with a top rating of 3. But also rated at 3
were a group of lesser-known hybrids and species: S. x chinensis 'Metensis'
and 'Saugeana,' S. oblata subsp. oblata, S. pubescens ssp. pubescens and S.
pubescens ssp. julianae. Others judge the heirloom lilac-colored singe S.
vulgaris 'Marlyensis' to be one of the most fragrant.
AND EAT IT TOO
Lilac flowers are edible, just like violas, roses, hollyhocks, daylilies and many others.
Sample lilac flowers before using them, as some kinds are tastier than others. Pick
the flowers soon after they open, wash them if they are dusty, let them dry, then
pick off individual florets to use in salads or desserts or as garnishes on the plate.
在植物园的盆栽园内,我还发现一颗丁香盆景,也正开放着呢。掌大的盆景丁香,一
朵朵小花丁,浓香凝聚:
拼凑一些丁香的小八卦,也是读书笔记:)
to be continued... - posted on 04/18/2010
丁香...... 是不是也能做香料,我小时最喜欢的零食就是---丁香山楂,香味不象茴香那么浓郁,却可口,丁香,丁香,馋死人了!
xw wrote:
愈读,愈发现丁香难写。写客体终究难,才花了不少时间把前文核实一下,就鼓不起
勇气再写了。还好手头杂料尚多,我有一本植物诗的书,Flora Poetica,是在南非
开普顿植物园买的,这么多年一直珍爱。这一首:
Forcing White Lilacs
First the cold
the being held
to the ground.
Then to see things
the police won't
use, how his eyes
are tortoise shell, cracked
shoes layered with blacking,
the cigar and sweat smell
in the clothes he rips
while snow drives
into her skin.
Her fear flaps at him
like a bat's shrieks
rebounding from trees
and she already dreads
the time it will take
to forget the deep wavy tread
in his hair.
He is a squeezed tube
spurting words that knife
and twine like eels
under ice. He is all flesh
that wants into
hers. She forces herself
to think of anything
else: the flakes
a veil of buds above
his shoulder she can see
light years of stars
yet night has knit
a stokcing for his face.
He could be anyone
in the mild scum
of moon he leaves
a foam on her jeans
she thinks of white
lilacs white lilacs
the first time thighs
like packed snow
a sibilance of pigeons:
her cries unwinding
from his ears.
(1979)
- posted on 04/19/2010
最能作香料的了,熏香。还可以泡茶,,,
不好意思。把诗的作者名也忘敲了,另外,诗有别样格式,两空格也没了,我附了
网上PDF版在上。
秋子 wrote:
丁香...... 是不是也能做香料,我小时最喜欢的零食就是---丁香山楂,香味不象茴香那么浓郁,却可口,丁香,丁香,馋死人了!
xw wrote:
愈读,愈发现丁香难写。写客体终究难,才花了不少时间把前文核实一下,就鼓不起
勇气再写了。还好手头杂料尚多,我有一本植物诗的书,Flora Poetica,是在南非
开普顿植物园买的,这么多年一直珍爱。这一首:
Forcing White Lilacs
- posted on 04/19/2010
中国丁香,我的直觉少,也许只有南方的对应--桂花。八月桂花香,香烟洋火桂
花糖,此不表。戴望舒那首雨巷中的丁香,我希望逢着一个丁香一样地结着愁怨的
姑娘。她是有丁香一样的颜色, 丁香一样的芬芳, 丁香一样的忧愁。李商隐有诗
“芭蕉不展丁香结,同向春风各自愁”,戴倒有传统的承续。我植物书中说丁香在
中国有一千年的栽培史,看来还不止!中国丁香以西南及秦岭地区为中心,倒还不
只是耐寒,前面就提过云南丁香,恐怕是一种地貌,直觉着秦岭与云南是相连的,
此不及长江中下游一带,这里盛行桂花。又扯回来了。
传说康有为清明僧寺作的对子:氷冷酒,一点两点三点;丁香花,百头千头萬头。
我以为很有丁香的真趣。我记得的版本是:水冰泠,一点两点……还是我擅自更改
为,便作了一首叫“丁香花”的诗。
长话短说,前头点中国的丁香种,肯定是不够的。我昨天在图书馆翻了几本植物书
,布鲁克林植物园中我走访的能够确定的中国丁香种有:
Yunan Lilac - Syringa yunnanensis 'Prophecy'
Himalaya Lilac - Syringa emodi
Cut-leaf Lilac - Syringa x lacininta
Syringa kamibayashi(Syringa velutina var. kamibayashi)
Syringa reticulata - 暴马丁香
Early Lilac - Syringa oblata - 华北丁香
Little-leaf Lilac - Syringa pubescens ssp. microphylla 'Superba'
Late-Lilac, Syringa villosa - 红丁香
Syringa protolaciniata, formerly S. afghanica - 华丁香
Little-leaf Lilac - Syringa pubescens pinnatifolia - 羽叶丁香
Syringa pubscens var potaninii - 山丁香
Nodding Lilac - Syringa reflexa(S. komarowii)
......
依哈佛大学中国植物志载,国中丁香只有十六个种。
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=132143
要推祖源,就有许多系列了。我再按列别的几个丁香系,虽然小一些,也有规模。S.
x prestoniae, Canadian hybrid:
In 1920, Isabella Preston crossed the late lilac(S. villosa) with the nodding
lilac(S. komarowii subsp. relexa) - hence the dropping panicles - and produced
the first of a race of beautiful tall shrubs or small trees that bloom a
week to 10 days late than common lilacs.
我在园中只观见三个品种,分别是:
Syringa x prestoniae 'Donald Wyman'
Syringa x prestoniae 'Isabella'
Syringa x prestoniae 'Hiawatha'
Isabella Preston在加拿大政府机关工作,培养的这个系列一共有七十一个品种,其父本,
母本都是源自中国的丁香。(S.villosa - 红丁香,S. komarowii - 西蜀丁香)
这里谈加拿大系列,纽约丁香倒有一处胜地,Highland Park, Lilac festival, 171
Reservoir Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620.
THE ROCHESTER LILACS: John Dunbar was a Scotsman who, in the 1890s, created
the famous lilac gardens at Highland Park in Rochester, NY, now the home of an
annual lilac festival.
There are more than 500 cultivars of lilac. Annual 10-day Lilac Festival
in late May.
五百多个品种,世界第一!今年找空一定去赶个热闹。
(716)256-4960
e-mail: lilacfestival@roch.com
http://www.lilacfestival.com/
今天忘带植物园笔记了,晚上再续。 - posted on 04/20/2010
Preston系列还有后来者,Syringa x josiflexa系。
These extremely hardy lilacs are hybrids of S. josikaea(匈牙利丁香) x S. komarowii
subsp. reflexa created by Isabella Preston in Ottawa. Similar to the Prestons in
appearance and bloom time - and often labeled Prestons - they grow upright and
flower about two or three weeks later than most S. vulgaris forms. Generally it's
smaller than the Prestons.
我在园中记录三个名称,花尚未全开放:
S. x josiflexa 'Nellie Bean'
S. x josiflexa 'Anna Amhoff'
S. x josiflexa 'James Macfarlane'
前面提到的Syringa kamibayashi应名Syringa velutina var. kamibayashi
一种关东(朝鲜)丁香的变种。又添一种中国丁香!
丁香分类一直有变更,品种数翻新得惊人。Cultivars:1900, 300; 1960, 830; now
more than 4000。才查到一处加拿大丁香园,有800 cultivars,惊人啊:
Royal Botanical Garden, Hamilton, ON L8N 3H8
http://www.rbg.ca With more than 800 cultivars, the Katie Osborne Lilac Garden is one of the world's
largest collections. It is presented beautifully in a valley surrounded by woodlands.
Lilac Festival in late May
只愿今生有机会去拜访一次,了却丁香情结。(才得知,Rochester已有1200varieties, and rbg:
From the 26 wild lilac species native to eastern Asia and southern Europe, breeders
have developed over 1,600 cultivated varieties.)
http://www.rbg.ca/pages_hort/hort_arb_gdrn.html#Anchor-Kate-47383
&孤本:
Syringa x diversifolia 'William H. Judd' (S. oblata × S. pinnatifolia)
维基上的中英文丁香属资料都有些过时,但我把常见的一次杂交品种列一下:
Syringa × diversifolia (S. oblata × S. pinnatifolia)
Syringa × henryi (S. josikaea × S. villosa)
Syringa × hyacinthiflora (S. oblata × S. vulgaris)
Syringa × josiflexa (S. josikaea × S. komarowii)
Syringa × lacinoata (S. protolaciniata × S. vulgaris)
Syringa × persica (S. protolaciniata × unknown)
Syringa × prestoniae (S. komarowii × S. villosa)
Syringa × swegiflexa (S. komarowii × S. sweginzowii)
先设个架子,有机会再更新!
to be continued...
- posted on 04/20/2010
手头中国丁香资料有限,虽有千年培栽培史,也无奈。好在国外丁香,除了丁香时
节一系列,都还与中国丁香沾点边。就说风信子型,Syringa oblata(华北丁香)
也还是在中国有分布,估计更是阿富汗,中亚型。而法国丁香的正本S. vulgaris
也源于东欧。东欧有两种丁香,另一种是匈牙利丁香(S. josikaea)。植物学史上有
一件奇事就是,那些原本植物极不丰富的国家倒有更发展的文化。比如英伦,西欧,
北美植物品种也单调。这有点象女人,文化发达了,就愈清雅,华丽多彩。然而,
丁香作为杂交品种,在新世界,就象人种的杂汇,丰富无比。前面提的两处丁香苑,
一个与一个比试品种多。我原先对人工品种都有些感冒,崇尚自然。现在不得已,
我又卖弄起人类混血说。自然的中国丁香种我陈列一下:
Syringa reticulata - 暴马丁香
Syringa yunnanensis - 云南丁香
Syringa tibetica - 西藏丁香
Syringa komarowii - 西蜀丁香
Syringa wolfii - 辽东丁香
Syringa sweginzowii - 四川丁香
Syringa villosa - 红丁香
Syringa tomentella - 毛丁香
Syringa protolaciniata - 华丁香
Syringa pinnatifolia - 羽叶丁香
Syringa meyeri - 蓝丁香
Syringa wardii - 圆叶丁香
Syringa oblata - 华北丁香
Syringa pubescens - 毛丁香
Syringa mairei - 皱叶丁香
Syringa pinetorum - 野丁香
中国的丁香自然种算是最丰富的了!前头说法国Rouen培殖的中国丁香系Chinese lilac
与中国无关,那是英文书上说的。如果伊本有Syringa protolaciniata - 华丁香,也
许初本取自波斯或阿富汗,叫中国丁香也无妨。
中国丁香丰富自然,日本,朝鲜也各具其名有变种。地理真是很有意思,植物性跟地
域联系紧,新世界新融炉。这回去墨西哥,对混血说起了疑虑:我觉得文化上的混,
但各自存异方有高级的文明。这些话在此说离题。
前面提到美加,提到法国,俄国,但俄国少说了一节,在些补充一下:
Leonid Kolesnikov (1893-1974): Lilacs have taken to the soil of Russia just as they
have to the similarly harsh Canadian prairies and the American Midwest. An
outstanding Russian horticulturist, Kolesnikov developed subtleties in lilac coloration
unmatched by anyone else. One of the most highly praised lilacs on the market today
is his ‘Krasavitsa Moskvy’ (Beauty of Moscow) of 1974, which has double white
flowers tinged with pink and lilac. This variety, along with his single purple-
lilac ‘Znamy Lenina’ (Banner of Lenin) and his double bluish lilac ‘Nadezhda’(Hope), are
considered three of the best lilacs in the world by Ted “Doc Lilac” Collins of
Rochester, New York. ‘Mechta,’ also widely available, has very large single bluish lilac
flowers.
我在植物园看到的俄国培殖品种,丁香时节一系:
S.V. 'Nadezhda'
S.V. 'Krasavitsa Moskvy'
S.V. 'Mechta'
To be continued... - posted on 04/20/2010
补充,拾遗,勘误
写植物的文字,尤其是发展中的,自己在学习中,自然有错处。要么是角度有错,要
么时间落后,再说还有许多人为规定的东西。有错我不怕,能投入即是了,总是昨
天发现前天的错,今天发现昨天有错。人为的错就不好说,本来是假命名。但没有
名称的世界象John L. Fiala在Lilacs: the genus Syringa起始说的:
Without names, the world would be a most confusing place. Names ae as important
to plants as they are to people,,,
http://books.google.com/books?id=rYatjOH-LbAC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=S.+x+quatrobrida&source=bl&ots=Av9FUXpQrJ&sig=Yu0AmWO6TOq7OOXaztsQewWtVbU&hl=en&ei=ZvXNS4ONFIaY8QSD2tWlDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=S.%20x%20quatrobrida&f=false
而我书中首页也说:
True passion for life, for any aspect of creation, is a rare and wonderful thing.
前面提到不少这样热心的丁香迷,说专家也对,我就不再重复。最可惜的是找不到中
国历史上的资料,这一环迟早要补充。
&
有一种丁香名称奇特,也只有John L. Fiala的书中有提:
Syringa quatrobrida 'Dancing Druid'
S. x quatrobrida ‘Dancing Druid’ (S. yunnanensis x S. tomentella) X (S. komarowii x S.
sweginzowii) ‘Albida’) - single, Fiala 1968, very good.
-- Lilac: the Syringa, Page.104
S. x quatrobrida (S. sweginzowii x S. tomentella) x (S. komarowii x S. wolfii) very fine
for all gardens in select cultivars. Lilac: the Syringa, Page.124
S. x ‘Dancing Druid’ , 1968, SVI, (S. yunnanensis x S. tomentella) X S. komarwii
Page.224
同一本书,同一个最权威的专家,也这么说话:)
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前头的贴子还是勘误整理了一番,笔记也完了。待有新感新知再将此线提一下。
Two books to recommend:
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Thanks! - Re: 说不尽的丁香..... Syringa, Lilacsposted on 04/20/2010
种了许多花,一棵紫丁香(Syringa vulgaris / Common Lilac)是唯一长的不好的,现在只有一小半枝长叶开花,大半成了枯枝。很容易页上长一种白白的东西。xw有何指教? - Re: 说不尽的丁香..... Syringa, Lilacsposted on 04/21/2010
先拍张照片看看吧。我也不专,但有书本参考。丁香要阳光,树根不能被别的侵占
,忌阴湿,忌过多施肥。你说的那白白的东西,不会是鸟粪吧,我觉得象真菌。
树种了多少年?
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