LILIES OF THE FIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

LILIES OF THE FIELD.

No doubt most people who have read about the lilies of the field in Scripture have wondered what they were. The language of Palestine at that time was Greek, and the name for lilies was "krina," which might mean a variety of showy plants just as we apply the name lily to many flowers. • The term could only apply to ehowy flowers inc wild, and the floral gjories of Palestine consist largely of Anemone coronaria;, Ranunculus Asiaticus and Adonis Palestina. The first-named is well known to us under the, name poppy anemones and St. Brigid anemones, while Persian, Turban and l'rench ranunculus have been immensely popular flowers with us since bygone times. These are all double, but the wild form hae been recently introduced, and is indeed a glorious flower, for Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed in as fine colours as Ranunculus Asiaticue. The flowers are brilliant scarlet, two to three indies across, and produced on stems about IS inches high. The flowers are infinitely liner than those of the scarlet Anemone fulgens. The foliage is as beautifully divided", and one leaf with a flower makes a handsome and very uncommon buttonhole.