The white lily opened its bells about the feast of the Visitation, one more case of white flowers blooming on the feasts of the Virgin. Forster’s rhyme of the saints’ flowers makes the lily queen of the flowers against St Swithin’s showers a fortnight later.
The white lily at the Visitation
2 July · England
Lore and belief
The white Lily expands its candid Bells about the Visitation; another coincidence of the opening of white Flowers on the Festivals of the Holy Virgin.
From Forster's Perennial Calendar, p. xxiii. Read the original
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