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rieties, all of which are entitled to conspicuous 

 situations in the flower garden, as well as to 

 embellish the fore-ground of ornamental shrub- 

 beries. This fine flower was first obtained from 

 the Turks under the Turkish title of Ziijiniare, 

 and the Venetian name of Marocall Dioscorides 

 mentions that these kinds of Lilies grew wild 

 near Laodicea, a city of Asia, now called Ladik, 

 and also near the celebrated city of Antioch in 

 Syria. 



Gerard, who wrote in 1596, says, " This plant 

 groweth in the fieldes and mountaines, many 

 dales iourneis beyonde Constantinopole, whither it 

 is brought by the poore pesants to be soldo for 

 the decking vp of gardens. From thence it was 

 sent among many other bulbs of rare and daintie 

 flowers, by Master Harbran, ambassador there, 

 vnto my honourable good lord and master, the 

 Lord Treasurer of England, who bestowed them 

 vpon me for my garden.'' Gerard therefore calls 

 them Zilium Bkantinum, " The Red Lillie of 

 Constantinople." 



This excellent author tells us, that he had two 

 other and smaller kinds of these Lilies growing 

 in his garden, the largest of which was given 

 him by " James Garret, apothecarie, in London, 

 and which at that time bore the name of Mar- 

 tagon, which seems to have been given to these 



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