^ FLORA HISTORICA. 



kinds of Lilies by Matthiolus." Amongst other 

 old names for this flower, we frequently find it 

 called the Lily of Nazareth, which seems to in- 

 dicate that it came originally from the East to 

 Constantinople. 



In the time of Charles the First we appear to 

 have had a great variety of these flowers, as 

 Parkinson, the herbarist and apothecary of that 

 unfortunate monarch, describes no less than a 

 dozen different kinds, which w^ere inmates in our 

 gardens as early as 1629, amongst which he no- 

 tices the White, the White Spotted, the Blush, 

 the Spotted Canada, the Imperial, the Red Con- 

 stantinople, the Red Spotted, the Hungarian 

 Bright. Red, the Yellow, and the YeUow Spotted; 

 and from the remarks of this writer, we may con- 

 clude that its cultivation was then most perfectly 

 understood and more attended to than at the pre- 

 sent 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 threescore flowers and 

 more growing thick together on one plant with 

 me, and an hundred flowers on another." This 



