YUCCA GLORIO'SA. 
GLORIOUS ADAM’S-NEEDLE. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
TULIPACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
America. 
6 feet. 
July, Aug-. 
Perennial. 
in 1593. 
No. 286. 
This noble plant has been permitted to retain its 
Indian name from the time of its introduction to this 
country, in the days of old Gerard and Queen Eliza- 
beth, to the present time. Its needle-pointed leaves 
are sufficiently characteristic of its English name. 
The proportion of our figure of the flower is one-third, 
the leaf one-eighth of the natural size. 
Gerard received the first plant of it which was 
introduced to England, and says it was brought from 
the Indies to him “ By a seruant of a learned and 
skillfull A pothecarie of Excester, named Master Tho- 
mas Edwards.” He says further, “It hath neither 
stalke, flowers, nor fruite, that I can vnderstande 
of others, or by experience from the plant itselfe, 
which hath growen in my garden fower yeers to- 
gither, and yet doth growe and prosper exceed- 
ingly.” It was not till seven years after the above 
remarks were written, that the Yucca gloriosa flow- 
ered in England, which occurred in the garden of 
William Coys, of Stubbers, North Okington, Essex. 
The first flowering of a magnificent plant like this, 
occurring so many years subsequently to its intro- 
duction, and to its becoming an object of attention, 
