Familiar Garden Flowers

Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

Lilium

3 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

Lilium

RHODODENDRON. The name is compounded from rhodon, rose, and dendron, tree. It is the rose tree, or tree-rose. NATURAL ORDER, Ericaceae…

Lilium: Chaucer

DAISY, from doeges-eage, the day's-eye, or eye of the day.--This etymology is sometimes regarded as fanciful, but it is adopted by all…

Lilium: Linnaean

BEGONIA Named in honour of M. Begon, a French patron of botany. N.O., Begoniaceoe. LINNAEAN: 21, Monoecia; 9, Polyandria.--These are…

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