. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CROWN IMPERIAL or Checkered Lily, so-called from the curious tessellation of colors, is the most popular. This plant grows wild in moist English meadows and is reported as easy of growth. Fritillaries have never been very extensively cultivated in this country. CROWN IMPERIAL Fritillaria imperalis. One of the characteristic plants of old-fashioned gardens, but ban- ished from modern ones because of its fetid odor. Native of Persia; introduced into England be- fore 1596
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. CROWN IMPERIAL or Checkered Lily, so-called from the curious tessellation of colors, is the most popular. This plant grows wild in moist English meadows and is reported as easy of growth. Fritillaries have never been very extensively cultivated in this country. CROWN IMPERIAL Fritillaria imperalis. One of the characteristic plants of old-fashioned gardens, but ban- ished from modern ones because of its fetid odor. Native of Persia; introduced into England be- fore 1596. April, May. Bulb.—Coated or scaly. Stem.—Two to three feet high. Leaves.—Broad lanceo- late, numerous, often whorled midway up the stem, which is also termi- nated by a tuft of leaves above the flowers. Flowers.—In a whorl of nodding bells underneath the terminal leaves; yellow to crimson; segments six, not recurved, a honey gland at the base of each. Stamens.—Six, attached to the base of the segments. Style.—Long; stigma three-lobed; pod six-angled. Crown Imperial. Fritillafia imperalis The Crown, Imperial, for its stately beautifulness deserveth the first place in this our garden of de- light, to be here entreated of before all other lilies. The whole plant and every part thereof doe smell somewhat strong, as it were the savour of a foxe, yet is not unwholesome. —"Paradisus Terrestris," Parkinson. The Crown Imperial is a plant which has outlived its social con- sideration. Parkinson regarded it as the best of the lilies, but no one gives it that place to-day. In an age that asks for fragrance, 35. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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