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Show Easter Lily Blossom Unknown to Palestine It Is wholly uncertain what flower Jesus had In mind when he spoke of I he "lilies of the Held." which -though they tolled not, neliher did Ihey spin Here adorned more beanll Tnlly than Solomon In nil bs Kb.ry Certainly he was not speaking of any blossoms of Hie type now represented by what is called Hie Easter Illy, be cause no such lilies were known In the Palestine of Ills day. all of thein being exclusively ol eastern Alallc origin, (if ihese lilies there are ninny varieties, as everybody knows the linesl of t J 1 1 1 1 1 nil and the one gen orally grown at the present lime In Hie greenhouses of !im ,oniiiy being be-ing a native l .In pan- I. Ilium longl-llorum. longl-llorum. A similar Illy, though of n different variety. Is Hie I, Ilium caniliduni, or Madonna !v, which Is so culled because be-cause II Is the Mower Ihat Is supposed to have been presented to M. Virgin by Hie Angel of the Aniiuiiclailnn One finds If thus depleted In one of the most famous pninllng.-i of Murllln |