June  6,  1901. 
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THURSDAY.  JUNE  6,  1901. 
The  Fleur  de  Lys. 
& yt ; 
I  HAT  a  pity  it  is  that  a  name  so 
pretty  has  fallen  into  disuse,  and 
what  a  nice  thing  it  would  be  if 
it  could  be  revived,  and  applied, 
if  not  to  all  the  Iris  family,  at 
least  to  those  the  gardening  folks  of 
long-ago  delighted  in,  and  loved  to 
have  in  their  quaint  little  gardens.  As  in 
the  case  of  some  other  old  designations, 
there  has  been  not  a  little  discussion  as  to  what 
flower  the  Fleur  de  Lys  really  was,  whether  the 
common  white  Lily  or  a  kind  of  Iris,  and  it  must 
he  confessed  that  the  question  remains  still  some¬ 
what  obscure.  Why,  for  instance,  should  critics 
assume  that  Chaucer  had  in  his  mind  the  Lily 
where  he  says  of  the  Frere,  “  His  nekke  whit  was 
as  the  flour-de-lys,”  when  Iris  florentina,  in  its 
whitest  form,  would  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
case  ?  or  Perdita,  when  she  wishes,  in  that  most 
delightful  of  all  floral  passages,  “  for  Lilies  of  all 
kinds,  the  flower  de  lis  being  one,”  should  be 
thought,  of  all  things,  to  be  longing  for  the  white 
Lily  of  the  summer  garden,  when  they  are“  flowers 
of  spring  ”  she  craves  ?  There  is  really  no  good 
reason  for  assuming,  in  either  instance,  that  the 
Lily  was  intended.  The  difficulty  of  being  abso¬ 
lutely  certain  will,  however,  be  recognised  when  it 
is  pointed  out  that  old  French  writers  treated  of 
Lilies  and  Irises  as  members  of  the  same  family, 
rad  this  fact  was  known  to  their  English  contem¬ 
poraries,  as  may  be  seen  in  a  passage  in  Markham’s 
mproved  edition  of  the  11  Countrie  F  arme,’  where 
;he  Martagon  Lily  is  stated  to  untold  its  petals 
ike  the  Fleur  de  Lis.  The  Frfench  original  says  it 
produces  flowers  of  size  and  form  “  comme  cello 
lu  Lys.” 
Bishop  Douglas  is  so  plain  in  his  description 
hat  in  his  ca-e  there  can  be  no  question  as  to  its 
dentity:  “The  flour  delyce  furth  sprede  his 
leuenly  hew  and  when  we  consult  our  earliest 
vriter  ou  gardening,  to  wit, “Thomas  Ilyll,  citizen 
T.an/lnn 17  iho  fljiTiifl  nlaot.  Iris  florentina,  is 
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