Award and Honour

            Shirui Lily flower got award and honour five decades back in London. In 1946 Mr. Frank Kingdon Ward who came  to Manipur Hills for botanical collection on behalf of the New York Botanical Society had made a sensational discovery of the famous Shirui Lily which bagged the prestigious merit prize of the 1948 Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show in London. Lilium Mackliniae Sealy is the botanical name of Shirui Lily named after the maiden name of the wife of its discoverer Kingdon F. Ward.