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may gain a lesson of caution from the experience 

 of the Dutch government of our own day. The 

 confusion of that country began, prior to the era 

 of the French Revolution, by violently vituperat- 

 ing the House of Orange ; and they were not 

 satisfied at their success in expelling their lawful 

 Prince, but carried party spirit to such a height, 

 that grave burgomasters, in testifying their hos- 

 tility to the name of the Stadtholder's family, 

 rendered themselves truly ridiculous, by not only 

 eradicating the Orange Lily and the Marigold 

 from their garden, but by even prohibiting the 

 sale of oranges and carrots in their markets, on 

 account of their aristocratical colour. We have 

 lived to see their banished Stadtholder return to 

 his people, as a King, greeted with exulting 

 shouts of Oranje boven. In our sister island many 

 a shillelah and many a head have been broken 

 in endeavouring to defend, or to banish the Orange 

 Lily from the bonnet of party ; but to return to 

 the sober delights of the parterre of Flora, and 

 leave 



*' All which rank Ambition breeds, 

 Which seem such beauteous flow'rs, and are such pois'nous weeds !" 



Cowley. 



The trivial name of Bulhiferum is given to this 

 Lily from a singular gift of nature, which some 

 of the varieties of this flower possess, that is, 



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