FRITILLARY 



pattern is seen in all its beauty and colouring. 

 Delicate and refined as the white variety is, it lacks 

 the fascination of the markings of the more richly 

 coloured types. 



I often think that long, long ago when gazing on 

 its checkered beauty an inspiration came to man, 



For Art's unerring rule is only drawn 

 From Nature's sacred source. 



From Nature's store, artists, builders and architects 

 alike derive their first ideas, and, in the marking of 

 this flower, or some of its many Eastern cousins, was 



FKITILLAKIA MEI-BA(iKIS (SNAKB'S-HKAD) 



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