The Christmas Lily.
A Garden Corner,
JTNOWN also as St Joseph’s lily or the Madonna lily, and to botanists as Lilium Candidum. No flower is so closely associated with Christmas as is this chaste and lovely variety. In this country it usually flowers a week or two before the festive season, but is generally available and much sought
after for church and home decorations. A native of the Levant, where it flowers in June, it could not have been out at the time of our Lord’s birth, but we like to regard it as symbolical of purity and innocence, and to have one or two spikes in the house for Christmas Day. It is so easily grown, too, that we in New Zealand are fortunate in being able to have it for the happy season. T.D.L.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 300, 18 December 1931, Page 10
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136The Christmas Lily. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 300, 18 December 1931, Page 10
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