THE AMERICAN COWS LIP - 



loss to the floriculturist. The most haughty is the Guernsey- 

 Lily, a flower of charming beauty, resembling in its bearing 

 and magnitude the Tuberous Polianthus, commonly known as 

 the Tuberose. The Guernsey Lily is of a rich cherry-red 

 colour, and, when lighted up by the direct rays of the sun, 

 appears to be sprinkled, or to use an heraldic term, sem6e, 

 with golden spots. The name of these lovely flowers is 

 derived from the Greek verb mnarussein {a^apva-aeiv), to 

 sparkle or dazzle, which is very characteristic of their 

 brilliant appearance. 



The dazzling splendour of the Amaryllis when in full 

 bloom, has sometimes a parallel in society, where a haughty 

 belle in the grandeur of her prime beauty, set off by the 

 skill of a fashionable modiste, eclipses the quiet attractions 

 of as fair but more retiring sister, which are often destined 

 to outlast those of her proud and disdainful rival, thus, — - 



" When Amaryllis fair doth show the richness of her fiery glow, 

 The modest lily hides her head ; the former seems so proudly spread 

 To win the gaze of human eye, which soonest brightest things doth spy. 

 Yet vainly is the honour won, since hastily her course is run ; 

 She blossoms, blooms, — she fades, — she dies, — they who admired, now 

 despise." — Flowers and Heraldry. 



THE AMERICAN COWSLIP (Dodecatheon Meadia).— 

 You ARE MY Angel. 



Dodecatheon, a Greek word meaning twelve gods, is the 

 name of a plant mentioned by Pliny, to whom the native 

 habitat (Virginia) of this was certainly unknown. It is 



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