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should be the first planted, because they are the most apt 

 to shrink. 



This lily requires deep pots, and the bulb should be 

 laid four inches deep at the least. It will require support, 

 and will flower in April. 



The Persian Fritillary, or Persian Lily called by the 

 Italians, giglio dl Persia; giglio di Susa* ; and pennacchi 

 Persiani bears a spike of deep purple flowers, growing at 

 the top of the stem in the form of a pyramid : they open 

 in May, but seldom produce seeds in England. 



The Black Fritillary is a native of France and Russia : 

 it has yellow flowers, which blow in April or May. 



The Common Fritillary, or Chequered Lily, is a native of 

 England, and most of the southern parts of Europe. The 

 flowers are chequered with purple and white, or purple and 

 yellow. " It is for this reason,' 1 says Mr. Martyn, " that 

 it has been named fritillus [a draught or chess-board]. 

 Nevertheless, fritillus is not the board, but the dice-box." 



It is most probably of the Crown Imperial that Moore 

 speaks in the following lines ; not the Persian lily, commonly 

 so called, since he describes the colour as golden : 



" Once, Emir ! thy unheeding child, 

 Mid all this havoc, bloomed and smiled, 

 Tranquil as on some battle plain 



The Persian lily shines and towers, 

 Before the combat's reddening strain 

 Hath fallen upon her golden flowers." 



FIBE WORSHIPPERS. 



It has many familiar English names, as Turkey-hen- 

 flower, Guinea-hen-flower, Chequered Daffodil, and Snake's- 



head ; from which last name, a meadow between Kew and 

 \ - * 



* The lily is considered in Persia as an emblem of loveliness ; and 

 Susa is said to be named from it : that word being the Persian for 

 lily. 



