Nat. Okp. LiuacbjC— (Cray.) 



WILD ORANGE LILY. 



Liliuiii Phllwli'Iphicmu 



"Consider tlie lilies of tlie fieM, how tliey grow; they toil not, neither do they 

 spin ; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 

 one of these." 



l^^M'^^'^ ^^^''^^ ^^i^y J^ derived from the Celtic, //, wliieh si«4iiifics 

 m^K^'* wliiteness; also from the Greek, lirion. Prohiihly the 

 stately Lily of the garden, Lillain cLfvlidtwi, was the 

 flower to whieh the name was first given, from its ivory 

 whiteness and the exquisite polish of its petals. However that may 

 be, the name Lily is ever associated in our minds with grace and 

 purity, and reminds us of the Saviour of men, who spake of the lilies 

 of the field, how they grew and flourished beneath the care of Him 

 who clothed them in robes of beauty more gorgeous than the kingly 

 garments of Royal Solomon. 



Sir James Smith, one of the most celebrated of Enixlish 

 botanists, suggests that the lilies alluded to by our Lord may have 

 been Amanjlis lafea, or the Golden Lilv of Palestine— the brij»:ht 

 yellow blossoms of a jjlant which abounds in the fields of Judea, 

 an<l at that moment probably caught his eye ; their glowing colour 

 aptly illustrating the subject on which he was about to speak. 



