LHe WHITE LILY. 
Lilian candidun. 
~ HE common white lily is one of 
“3 the noblest as well as commonest 
flowers of the English garden, 
and a deuu idéal of the tenantry 
of the terrestrial paradise of the 
delectable Lady Corisande. Its 
manner is that of a wildine, 
for if a few seales broken from 
a bulb are scattered about a 
garden, some of them will be- 
come true lilies in time; and 
wherever it is planted and left 
alone for a few years, it justilies 
the confidence reposed in it by 
/= flowering freely, and increasing by the 
~ formation of new bulbs, so that small 
clumps become large clumps, and may 
be periodically divided. But it is not 
a wilding here, and is but ravely met 
with as an escape from the garden. It is a native of the 
interesting country called the Levant, and as the Levant 
includes Palestine, it is by no means improper to consider 
this as the “lily of the field” referred to by our Lord in 
the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew vi. 28). If, however, 
we seek for a distinct flower as ¢/e lily of the Holy Land, 
we must take note of Canticles vi. 2, where the lily is 
