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Lily. 
Lilium candidtum. Narurar Orver: Liliacee—Lily Family. 
ff REEK keirion, interpreted to signify wanting in color, or pale, 
is the origin of the Latin Zum, as that is of the English lily. 
The Lilies are bulbous plants, having long, tapering leaves, 
and flowers of most exquisite beauty. They are cultivated 
without much labor. The above is pure white. The most 
oth “+ beautiful of all lilies are those from China and Japan, being 
© very rich in color, and larger in size than our native plants. The 
f Lilium candidum is a native of the Levant. The Lily seems to vie 
i with the daisy for its share of musical honors, for many is the lyre 
«, s “that has been tuned to its praises. Mrs. Tighe, in remarking that 
s, there is no beauty in the bulb, says: 
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“Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, 
The lily wraps her silver vest — 
Till vernal suns and vernal gales 
Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.” 
Purity. 
So has no blossom fairer than thy form; 
Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind; 
The dewdrop trembling to the morning beam 
Is like thy smile — pure, transient, heaven-refin’d. 
—Mrs. Lydia Fane Pierson. 
HERE is a pale and modest flower Though other flowers around me bloom, 
In garb of green array’d, In gaudy splendor drest, 
That decks the rustic maiden’s bower, Filling the air with rich perfume, 
And blossoms in the glade; I love the lily best. 
—Anonymous, 
| HAD found out a sweet, green spot 
Where a lily was blooming fair; 
The din of the city disturbed it not; 
But the spirit that shades the quiet cot 
With its wings of love was there. 
—Fames G. Percival. 
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