THE GUERNSEY LILY.
AMARYLLIS SAMIENSIS.
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“This plant was brought from Japan, where it was found by Kaempfer
and also by Thunberg, who visited that country in 1775. It was first
cultivated in the garden of John Morin, at Paris, where it blowed for
the first time on the 7th of October, 1634. It was then made known by
Jacob Cornutus, under the name of ‘Narcissus Japonicus flore rutilo.’
After this it was again noticed by John Ray, in 1665, who called it the
Guernsey Lily. A ship, returning from Japan, was wrecked on the coasts
of Guernsey, and a number of the bulbs of this plant, which were on
board, being cast on shore, took root in that sandy soil.”—Beckman's
Inventions, vol. iii.
