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THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
NATIVE LILIES. 
T HE time has long since, passed when any member of 
the lily family required an introduction into the best 
family circle of plants, because it has no equal in the 
floral world, and one of the most remarkable peculiarities 
of it and that which gives it so prominent a position in 
the world of plants is, that it has no poor relations. 
ft is not, however, of the family that we now propose 
to speak ; we only wish to refer to some few of the indi¬ 
vidual members—neglected ones—whose real character 
entitles them to a place in every collection of beautiful 
plants. While we have been gleaning the globe for rep¬ 
resentatives of this family to adorn our gardens and con¬ 
servatories we have quite overlooked our own meadows, 
swamps and hillsides, wherein may be found lilies of the 
most graceful form, both in stem, foliage and flower, 
while in the color of the flowers there is nothing to com¬ 
pare in brilliancy and intensity. It is a consolation to 
know that while we are traversing the fields of India and 
Japan for fiovelties to ornament our gardens, the florists 
of those countries are roaming through ours for the same 
purpose, and both find much to admire and instruct. 
Of our native lilies there are in the Northern and East- 
