Ctliuin ccmbibum. Natural Order: Liliacecz — Lily Family. 
or 
REEK leirion , interpreted to signify wanting in color, or pale, 
is the origin of the Latin lilium , 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, he most 
beautiful of all lilies are those from China and Japan, being 
very rich in color, and larger in size than our native plants. The 
Lilium candidum is a native of the Levant. The Lily seems to vie 
with the daisy for its share of musical honors, for many is the lyre 
that has been tuned to its praises. Mrs. Tighe, in remarking that 
there is no beauty in the bulb, says: 
“ 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.” 
QPRING 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 'Jane Pierson. 
SPHERE is a pale and modest flower 
In garb of green array’d, 
That decks the rustic maiden’s bower, 
And blossoms in the glade; 
Though other flowers around me bloom 
In gaudy splendor drest, 
Filling the air with rich perfume, 
I love the lily best. 
—A nonymous. 
T 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. 
— James G. Percival. 
