Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 94
,was their Martagon Pompony. The name pompony,no doubt, camefrom the tightly rolled-back petals giving the flower something of thelook of the flattened melons of the Cantaloupe kind, with their deeplongitudinal furrows ; the old name of these being Pompion. Anothername for this Lily was the Red… … popularity and former frequency in gardens in these words : The RedMartagon of Constantinople is become so common everywhere, and sowell known to all lovers of these delights, that I shal seem unto them tolose time, to bestow many lines upon it ; yet because it is so fair a flower,and was at the…
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