12 FLORA HISTORICA. 



then again blossomed with double corollas, after 

 Avhich it was entirely lost. 



The mythological writers of antiquity have not 

 informed us by what metamorphosis we gained this 

 Golden-petaled Lily, nor do we find it in the floral 

 vocabulary of the East : we must therefore content 

 ourselves with relating a tale of modern times con- 

 nected with this gay flower : both ruler and rabble 

 may learn a lesson from the experience of the 

 Dutch government of our own day. The disturb- 

 ances of that country began, prior to the era of the 

 French Revolution, by violent personal attacks on 

 the House of Orange ; and the people, not satis- 

 fied with their success in expelling their lawful 

 Prince, carried the spirit of rancour to such a 

 heio-ht, that even grave burgomasters, to show their 

 hostility to anything which reminded them of the 

 Stadtholder's family, rendered themselves so ridi- 

 culous as not only to eradicate the Orange Lily 

 and the Marigold from their gardens, but even pro- 

 hibit the sale of oranges and carrots in their mar- 

 kets, on account of their being of the aristocratical 

 colour. ^Ve have lived to see their banished 

 Stadtholdcr return to this same people, as a King, 

 greeted with exulting shouts of Oranje boven. In 

 our sister island, also, many a shillelah and many 

 a head have been broken in endeavouring to defend, 

 or banish the Orange Lily from the bonnet of party. 



