or wood lily, which blossoms as 

 vividly as a torch. The Easter lily, 

 as we call that sweet white flower 

 which we have come to associate with 

 this joyous festival, is a comparatively 

 new comer to our shores. About 187? 

 some bulbs were brought by a Phila- 

 delphia woman and given to a florist 

 of that city. In the course of a few 

 years they had increased greatly and 

 were brought up by an enterprising 

 florist who named them after himself, 

 Lilium Harrisii, and who introduced 

 them all over the country. The lily 

 tribe is spoken of by Linnaeus as the 

 nobles or patricians of the vegetable 

 kingdom, and another and older writer 

 says that the flowers should be used 

 " to deck up gardens, the bosoms of 

 the beautiful, garlands and crowns for 

 pleasure." 



In Spain they tell that the lily can 

 restore to human form those who haVe 

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