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————— ee — 
THE GUERNSEY LILY. 
F it were attempted ° to make a list of the 
various plants to which the name * Lily ” 
has been applied, the task would be found to =; 
like the stud i 
ic 
beautiful Ranunculus Lyallii is Ki to the 
New Zealand shepherds, who also call. it Water 
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volvulus sepium ; the * Lily among 
Thorns "Him. inter spinas—of the old 
herbalists was ete a Honeysuckle 
(Lonicera Periclymenum) ; ; the Rubiacez are 
represented by thé “ ge Thorn ” of the 
ahamas (Catesbaa spinosa) ; while among the 
Mon ocotyledons the name is applied to a large 
number of Amaryllidaceze as well as Liliacez, 
and even an Orchid (Dendrobium speciosum) 
is known as * Rock Lily " in New South Wales. 
seems to have been employed almost indis- 
қ » 
arkable, predic that the 
e of Lily боша. have been ended to 
емал so closely connected with a Liliaceze 
as are many of the Amaryllids ; such an exten- 
the mode 
adopted by the old herbalists, aks often placed 
in the same chapter plants which were dis- 
similar in ра ecd respect, but yet had a 
superficial resemblance one to another. The 
beautiful ind vodik Astilbe barbata is almost 
universally known as a Spiræa on this account, 
Ден the name, that no one but a bota 
would xcd of it by its proper title of Nerine 
sarniensis. 
Just at this season of the year the Guernsey 
Lily ойын the place filled later on by the 
Hyac cinth or Tulip. Grown in a pot in a room 
it flourishes and puts forth its beautiful rose- 
coloured flowers, and has doubtless cheered 
the solitary and weary hoit 
invalid wi its brightness. 
of its kind, the plant aes some of its beauty on 
account of the flowers appearing before the 
leaves ; but in spite of this drawback it is a 
brilliant and beautiful object. Its name, Guern- 
sey Lily, is popularly coe to refer to the 
ant, but it is hardly 
or incen ship was киси off the coast of 
Guernsey on its way home from Japan, and 
hát | roots of the Nerine, э formed part of 
the уў were Mosen up on the shore ағ 
buried in the sand, appearing mia or three year: 
after in um bisects. m at once attracting ilie 
attention of the inhabitants by their beauty. Be 
this as it may, the plant soon obtained the nam 
it now bears, and became an article of export 
this circumstance. 
from the island. The account we have just 
given was published by Dr. Morison in 1680, 
and the following extract from a letter published 
a year or two since in Notes and Queries, and 
dated “ Guernsey, July 26, 1748,” will show the 
d, and none to be had but here, and 
blowes to this season of ye year only. To see 
the buty of them ’tis by looking close to them 
on a dry day when ye sun shines, upon them ; 
they then ressemble a tissue of gold.” The 
peculiar beauty of colour manifested in the 
flowers of the Guernsey Lily was analysed by Dr 
Douglas, who in 1725 published a folio pam- 
phlet entitled Li/ium sarniense,or a Description 
of the Guernsay-Lilly. He says :—“ In this 
flower there is a beautiful complication of dif- 
ferent a of red that all follow one — 
or n it is in its prime there may be 
мат іп it, I, а carnation ; 2, ovi et ; 
3, a fuller эс. s 4, a modena d 5, a crim- 
n. en we look upon n би M rider in full 
ncm each leaf appears to be studded with 
thousands of little diamonds, sparkling and 
еар with a most surprising and agreeable 
lustre ; but if we view the same by candle-light 
these numerous specks ór spangles look more 
like fine gold dust." 
In this work by Dr. Douglas various other 
traditions are given as to the origin - the plant 
on the Guernsey shore, where, by way, it is 
not now to be found. It is said nee the first 
u^ 
received him and treated him well; that the 
gentleman planted the bulbs in his garden, but 
after three or four years, no sign of blossom 
having appeared, he ordered them to be dug up 
and thrown into a corner of his garden, where 
they flowered when he least expected them to 
oso. Th 
in number, and from them the whole stock in the 
island was produced. Another account was 
given to Dr. Douglas by a native of me island, 
who stated that his or, 
een a great lover and curious {Кн of 
this flower in her younger Bay could ener 
perfectly well that sixty years ago they were as 
common in the islan к м they are at this day ; 
and that even then it was a custom to sen 
presents of roots to England. This gentleman 
adds further, that had this plant come into 
their island so lately as Dr. Morison рони 
[2.е., about 1680], he does not see how it 
sible the roots should have шере so pro- 
digiously as. could to send such 
vast quantities of en every year to England, 
besides the immense number always to be 
О 
versions $ is were among the 
ballast of a West Indian merchantman, which 
unloaded at Guernsey, and that they sprang up 
among the rubbish ; while yet another version 
а ан story states that the natives, finding the 
s cast up on their shores, took them for a 
kind of Onion, and planted them in that belief. 
The Guernsey Lily is a native of the Cape of 
Hope, in the s about Table Moun- 
own in Euro 
the plant flowered in 1634. It w 
land, as, , ассои to 
by General Lambert, at Wimbledon, In Japan 
the bulb is generally considered to be poison- 
ous, and one of its — names refers to 
An att b 
to establish the plant -— some part of the 
sandy shore of France, but Map Success, 
Although so generally known as 
