The California horticulturist and floral magazine . Lilium chalcedonicum, or Scarlet Mar-tagon, grows wild in every countryfrom Galilee to Greece. But whetherthe blue Lily Ixiolirion montanum, orthe L. chalcedonicum was the true Lilyof the field, according to Scripture? , on the authority of Sir John THE CALIFOENIA HOKTICULTUKIST. 63 Bowriug, came to the conclusion thatthe Scarlet Martagon was the Lily ofthe field, because that traveler happen-ed to pass through the country whenthe Martagon was in bloom. But SirE. Smith, the traveler, was of the opin-ion, with the traditional idea of
The California horticulturist and floral magazine . Lilium chalcedonicum, or Scarlet Mar-tagon, grows wild in every countryfrom Galilee to Greece. But whetherthe blue Lily Ixiolirion montanum, orthe L. chalcedonicum was the true Lilyof the field, according to Scripture? , on the authority of Sir John THE CALIFOENIA HOKTICULTUKIST. 63 Bowriug, came to the conclusion thatthe Scarlet Martagon was the Lily ofthe field, because that traveler happen-ed to pass through the country whenthe Martagon was in bloom. But SirE. Smith, the traveler, was of the opin-ion, with the traditional idea of someshepherds, that the recldish-blue andazure Lily—lxiolirion montanum, theonly Lily in all Syria, was the one re-ferred to in the Sermon on the have thought the L. chalcedoni-cum, like the Potato, may have overrunthe countries of the old world, throughbeing so gay, as the Potato has for itsusefulness. It may have been a stran-ger in G-alilee in the time of Christ. Aft-er all, probably, no particular Lily wasmeant at all. The lxioli
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