Show easter lily blossom unknown to palestine it Is wholly uncertain what flower jesus had in mind when he spoke of the lilies of the field which though they tolled not neither uil they spin were adorned boore beautifully than solomon in all his glory certainly be was not speaking of any blossoms of the type now represents by what Is called the easter illy because no such lilies were known la the palestine of his day all of them being exclusively of eastern asiatic origin of these lilies there are varieties as everybody knows the finest of them all and the one sen brally grown at the present time 1 the greenhouses of this country being a native of japan lallum long flogum A similar illy though of a different variety Is the lallum W madonna illy which lo 10 so called because it Is the flower that Is supposed to have been presented to the virsia by the angel of the annunciation one finds it thus depicted in one of the most famous paintings of murillo |