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Canabian 



Dorticultudet 



Published at Toi^onto and Ge\i_msby, Ont. 

 OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X. 



JUNE, 1887. 



[No. 6. 



J^Iclners. 



LILIES. 

 The Lily fair, so richly drest 



In jewelled robes bedecked with gold, 

 Still teaches in its royal vest 



The same sweet lesson as of old. 



Where Western streams like coursers run, 

 And Eastern vales in verdure lie, 



It spreads its glories to the sun. 

 And lifts its chalice to the sky. 



And gathered in from every land, 

 From vaUey, hill and mountain glen. 



Its ranks in regal splendor stand, 

 .cVnd glorify the homes of men. 



Its fragrance still from age to age, 

 Shall breathe to all the blessed line, 



That stands on inspiration's page. 



And bids us trust the power divixk. 



Mj's. Perkins in The Mayflower. 



Perhaps no family of flowers has 

 attracted so much admiration, from old 

 and young in all ages as the Liliaceae. 

 No wonder that !Mrs. Lincoln in her 



introductory lectures to the Linnean 

 system of Botany chose the Lily as her 

 model flower ; the parts are all so per- 

 fect and so easily distinguished. No 

 wonder either that the inspired writers 

 of old selected the white lily as a type 

 of purity and excellence ; or that the 

 Great Teacher himself called the atten- 

 tion of over anxious humanity to the 

 beauty of this flower, which, without 

 toiling or spinning, was clothed by its 

 Creator in array so beautiful that even 

 a Solomon in his magnificent regal robes 

 could not compare with it ; an object 

 lesson, teaching his hearers more im- 

 plicit confidence in Divine Providence. 



To this family belongs the Adder's- 

 tongue of our woods so often miscalled 

 Violet, the stately Yucca, the humble 

 Lily-of-the-Valley, the Star-of-Bethle- 

 hem, and the Day-Lily : and beside, 

 such natives, it also includes the Tulips 

 the Crown Imperial, the Hyacinth and 



