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his garden, the largest of which was given him by 

 ^* James Garret, apothecarie, in London, and which 

 at tliat time bore the name of Martagon, which 

 seems to have been given to these kinds of LiUes 

 by INIatthiolus." Amongst other old names for 

 this flower, we frequently find it called the Lily of 

 Nazareth, which seems to indicate that it came 

 originally from the east to Constantinople, 



In the time of Charles I., we appear to have 

 had. a great variety of these flowers, as Parkinson, 

 the herbarist and apothecary of that iuifortunate 

 monarch, describes no less than a dozen different 

 kinds, which were inmates in our gardens as early 

 as 1629, amongst which he notices the White, the 

 White Spotted, the Blush, the Spotted Canada, 

 the Imperial, the Red Constantinople, the Red 

 Spotted, the Hungarian Bright Red, the Yellow, 

 and the Yellow Spotted ; and from the remarks of 

 this writer, we may conclude that its cultivation 

 was then most perfectly understood and more at- 

 tended to than at the present day, since we have 

 never seen them of such magnificence as this writer 

 describes, who says, they grow three feet high, 

 *' where stand many flowers, according to the age 

 of the plant, and thriving in the place where it 

 groweth ; in those that are young but a few, and 

 more sparsedly, and in others that are old many 

 more, and thicker set, for I have reckoned three- 



