94 Tall Bearded Iris 



long after, about the beginning of the nineteenth 

 century, that the Fleur-de-Hs was removed from Eng- 

 land's coat of arms. 



Awake, awake, English Nobility! 

 Let not sloth dim your honors now begot; 

 Cropped are the Flower-de-luces in your arms; 

 Of England's coat one half is cut away. 



Shakespeare: I King Henry VI . 



ORNAMENTATION.— All the accounts which as- 

 sign to the Fleur-de-lis as a device an exclusively French 

 origin, are open to the objection that it seems to 

 be a well established fact that the Fleur-de-lis was 

 a motif in ornament at least as far back as the Etrus- 

 cans who were a civilized and cultivated people long 

 before the foundation of Rome. At a very early day 

 it was an ornament on the crowns, scepters, thrones, 

 seals, coins, etc., not only of the Frankish but of 

 the Greek, Roman, German, English and Spanish 

 Kings. And it is stated that it occurs in the head- 

 dresses of the Egyptian sphinxes. See also under 

 Symbol, In General, page 90. 



Later it was much used in the ornamentation of 

 buildings, public works generally, military trappings, 

 clothing, etc. In church architecture and decoration 

 especially, it was constantly occurring. 



Some of the conventional forms of the Fleur-de-lis 

 are shown in Fig. VI. See also Fig. IV, page 73. 

 Two forms of cross fleury (a cross having a Fleur-de-lis 



