amylsacks

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Posted: 03 Sep 2012


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retro
1930s
1938
1940s
1945
gardening
lily
vintage
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USA


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Garden Bulbs In Color (12), 1938/45

Garden Bulbs In Color (12), 1938/45
L: "A lily 'wild' or native in the eastern United States and Canada... Some gardeners attempt to collect these Lilies in their native haunts but are seldom successful in transplanting them to cultivation. As with most of our native plants, it is best to obtain the bulbs from a reliable nurseryman."

R: "...That famous herbalist, John Gerard, in 1597 called it 'the white lillie,' and gave as its traditional origin that it sprang from the milk of the goddess Juno, spilled when she nursed the infant Hercules..."

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