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Tjie plnnl hero represented has been above thirty years in the Fairfield 

 hothouse and flower* very freely every Spring— the following correct description 

 i* taken from Professor M .umVs edition of Milter* Dictionary) published in 

 I7<»8 "Bulb green, scape round, sub-compressed- E»<*h Mem supports Iwa 

 three, or four flowery rarely more] they are large, of a bright copper-colour 

 inclining to scarlet, willi a litittnm of a whitish green; the three outer petal* 

 reversed at the tip, the three inner fringed at the base; the style red: the spnthe 

 which covers the budtf before they open, divides into two purls to the bottom, 

 standing on each side the umbel of flowers. It flowered in Mr*F.uRcmu>V 

 Burden nl Hoxton, in I72H, when the Into Dr- Jambs Douglas (n celebrated 

 Anatomist] caused a figure of it to be drawn, and wrote a folio pamphlet on it 

 He gave it the title of Lilium Kcgiute, because it was in full beauty on the l>i of 

 Harch, which was the birth-day of the late Queen," (Caroline of Anspnch, wife 

 of George CI,) The roots were brought from Mexico, and il is therefore called 

 the Mexican Lily, among Gardeners. It increases readily by offsets, or from 

 seed, by which so many varieties have hern raised, that the OriginnI specie- 

 is become scarce* 



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