tachment to the Bourbons by a display of these flowers in the saloons of the noblesse, and on the counters of the petites marchandes.

We have eighteen varieties of the Lilium Candidum, and sixteen distinct species of this genus of plants, all of which deserve the attention of the curious florist from their grandeur and beauty.

THE ORANGE LILY. Lilium Bulbiferum.

THIS flower, although less elegant in shape, and entirely destitute of fragrance, is a great ornament to the garden, both on account of its stately height, and rich orange-coloured petals. We have many varieties of this species of Lily, some of which are of so great antiquity in our gardens, that Gerard considered them as natives of the British soil. It is found wild in Austria, Italy, and other southern parts of Europe; as also in Siberia and Japan.

The Orange Lily has been known to produce double flowers, but this variety is not permanent. Some years back a bulb of this Lily produced double flowers, in a garden near Ghent, but the succeeding year it returned to its natural shape, and

then again blossomed with double corollas, after which it was entirely lost.

The mythological writers of antiquity have not informed us by what metamorphosis we gained this Golden-petaled Lily, nor do we find it in the floral vocabulary of the East: we must therefore content ourselves with relating a tale of modern times connected with this gay flower: both ruler and rabble may learn a lesson from the experience of the Dutch government of our own day. The disturbances of that country began, prior to the era of the French Revolution, by violent personal attacks on the House of Orange; and the people, not satisfied with their success in expelling their lawful Prince, carried the spirit of rancour to such a height, that even grave burgomasters, to show their hostility to anything which reminded them of the Stadtholder's family, rendered themselves so ridiculous as not only to eradicate the Orange Lily and the Marigold from their gardens, but even prohibit the sale of oranges and carrots in their markets, on account of their being of the aristocratical colour. We have lived to see their banished Stadtholder return to this same people, as a King, greeted with exulting shouts of Oranje boven. In our sister island, also, many a shillelah and many a head have been broken in endeavouring to defend, or banish the Orange Lily from the bonnet of party.

But to return to the sober delights of the parterre

of Flora, and leave

All which rank Ambition breeds,

Which seem such beauteous flow'rs, and are such pois'nous weeds! COWLEY.

The trivial name of Bulbiferum is given to this Lily from a singular gift of nature, which some of the varieties of this flower possess, that is, of having three distinct modes of propagating its species: first by its oviparous power of producing seeds, or vegetable eggs; secondly, by its viviparous nature in throwing off young bulbs, or perfect bodies, from the side of the parent bulb; and thirdly by a bulbous bud, which is formed in the angle between each leaf and the stem, and which, at maturity, drops off, and taking root in the earth, swells out into the scaly bulb peculiar to Lilies only.

This kind of Lily will prosper in situations that are partially shaded, which makes it particularly desirable for planting amongst flowering shrubs, so as to fill up the vacancies occasioned by the fall of the blossoms of the Lilac and Laburnum. The Orange Lily is not delicate as to soil, but it flowers strongest in a soft, gentle loam not too moist. The bulbs should be planted in clumps of about five in each clump, separated at about two feet distance each way, and covered with about five inches of mould.

H

MARTAGON, OR TURK'S-CAP LILY.

Or this elegant kind of Lily we have now several different species, and of each many varieties, all of which are entitled to conspicuous situations in the flower-garden, as well as to embellish the foreground of ornamental shrubberies. This fine flower was first obtained from the Turks under the Turkish title of Zufiniare, and the Venetian name of Marocali. Dioscorides mentions that these kinds of Lilies grew wild near Laodicea, a city of Asia, now called Ladik, and also near the celebrated city of Antioch in Syria.

Gerard, who wrote in 1596, says, "This plant groweth in the fieldes and mountaines, many daies iourneis beyonde Constantinopole, whither it is brought by the poore pesants to be solde for the decking vp of gardens. From thence it was sent among many other bulbs of rare and daintie flowers, by Master Harbran, ambassador there, vnto my honourable good lord and master, the Lord Treasurer of England, who bestowed them vpon me for my garden." Gerard therefore calls them Lilium Bizantinum, "The Red Lillie of Constantinople."

This excellent author tells us that he had two other and smaller kinds of these Lilies growing in

his garden, the largest of which was given him by "James Garret, apothecarie, in London, and which at that time bore the name of Martagon, which seems to have been given to these kinds of Lilies by Matthiolus." Amongst other old names for this flower, we frequently find it called the Lily of Nazareth, which seems to indicate that it came originally from the east to Constantinople.

In the time of Charles I., we appear to have had a great variety of these flowers, as Parkinson, the herbarist and apothecary of that unfortunate monarch, describes no less than a dozen different kinds, which were inmates in our gardens as early as 1629, amongst which he notices the White, the White Spotted, the Blush, the Spotted Canada, the Imperial, the Red Constantinople, the Red Spotted, the Hungarian Bright Red, the Yellow, and the Yellow Spotted; and from the remarks of this writer, we may conclude that its cultivation was then most perfectly understood and more attended to than at the present day, since we have never seen them of such magnificence as this writer describes, who says, they grow three feet high, "where stand many flowers, according to the age of the plant, and thriving in the place where it groweth; in those that are young but a few, and more sparsedly, and in others that are old many more, and thicker set, for I have reckoned three