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to August, and throwing up a stem two feet high and 

 branching ; the flowers solitary at the extreme. They bear 

 some resemblance to the Eternal Flower, yellow, with a 

 single whorl of white petals round the edge, reflexed. 

 The stem is concave, the corners or edge thin, hence arose 

 the name, Winged. The leaf is a dingy yellow or light 

 green, clustered near the ground. It is half hardy, and will 

 grow in any common garden soil. It generally sows its 

 own seed, which comes up early in the spring, and can be 

 transplanted to where it is wanted to flower. 



WHITE LILY. 



(LILIUM CANDIDUM.) 



" Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, 



The lily wraps her silent vest, 

 Till vernal suns and vernal gales, 

 Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast." 



This is a bulbous rooted perennial, a native of Syria and 

 Asia Minor, and was supposed to have been brought to 

 Europe by the Crusaders, sometime during the " Holy 

 War." It is one of the oldest exotics in cultivation, pos- 

 sessing extraordinary beauty, embellishing the flower 

 garden with white flowers of the sweetest odor of all the 

 floral tribe. The leaves are lanceolate, scattered, and nar- 

 rowed at the base ; the corolla companulate and smooth 

 inside ; the stem about five feet high, bearing from six to 



