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The Easter Lily
Ever stop to wonder how the lily came to be the symbol of Easter and where it came from to begin with? A little research reveals an interesting story and a surprising one. Most of us no doubt are familiar with the Biblical quotation about the lilies of the field and have assumed--if indeed we thought about it at all—that our fami liar Easter flower originated in the Holy Land. Nothing is further from the case. Our Easter Lily, incorporated into so much religious art and used so widely in church ceremonies, came by a circuitous route from a group of Buddhist Islands south of Japan.
It was a Christian missionary who brought the lily to the western world, howeverj on a journey back to his homei land after years in the Orient, A botanist as well as a mis
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