Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-04-11 | Page 2 | Easter Plants in Holy Lands

Easter Plants in Holy Lands. The lily of the valley, as spoken of in the LMble, is evidently not the flower flow-er of that name of the present-day because it does not grow in Palestine! But the jonquil, the narcissus jon-quilla, jon-quilla, our lovely white and yellow spring lilies of several varieties, familiarly fa-miliarly known as Easter flower's grow abundantly in the Valley of Palestine. Pal-estine. The large anemone, 'iris and tiie water lily are alike natives of Palestine Pal-estine and generally believed to be included under the generic term of lily, as used in the Bible. Certiln authorities think that the lily to which Solomon was compared is the amarvl-bs, amarvl-bs, that glorious bulb with glorious red and. yellow blooms which grows in the vales of Palestine. Longfellow I think it is, who so beautifully speaks of the flowers as "stars that in earth's firmament do glow." Little wonder that they are so unanimously unani-mously accepted as the expression of a divine energy permeating the universe uni-verse and a vivid reminder of that ilrea-n of immortality given to our Jevtsh ancestors thousands f . ago as symbolic of ,,, res!:-.......,'.., ,., ; the body and (Ue ;c 4. " of J