CHAPTER VI 
LILY-KIN AND ROSE-KIN 
“Let us change the subject, and talk about lilies and roses.” 
—E, Buxton. 
FROM time out of mind there has been a close 
companionship between the lily and the rose. 
They have bloomed together in all gardens of 
delight, from Mother Eve’s, where the rose was 
” 
‘‘without thorn,” to grandmamma’s, where they 
lived with single pinks, and gillyflowers, prince’s- 
feather, and love-lies-bleeding, behind prim hedges 
of clipped box. They have been together in her- 
aldry, where the Rose of England and the Lily of 
France were blazoned on the same Plantagenet 
shields and banners, together in mediaval art, 
where they have bloomed side by side at the feet 
of the Virgin, and together in the love-poetry of 
all times and lands from the Hebrew ‘‘Song of © 
Songs”? to Tennyson’s ‘‘ Maud.” 
But botany breaks up this immemorial fellow- 
ship and puts them far asunder. It tells us, in- 
deed, that they have nofhing in common. 
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