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sionary, he admired the fragrant white flowers during his years in the Orient and brought the bulbs with him on his homeward voyage, intending them for planting in his garden at home in England. However, the ship carrying him from Japan was forced to put into Bermuda in distress and during its stay there, the missionary spent a great part of his time with a friend, the Episcopal rector of a local parish. On his departure, in gratitude for the latter's hospitality, the missionary presented him with a number of lily bulbs. The bulbs went from neighbor to neighbor throughout the island. It was only a few years later that the flower, thriving in the Bermuda climate, was growing in striking and lavish displays. And it was in one of these massive plantings that Mrs. Thomas P. Sargent, of Philadelphia, an amateur gardener, first saw them and recognized their appropriateness for Easter displays for which white flowers were then seldom available. In 1880 she brought bulbs back to Philadelphia, and persuaded a local nurseryman to raise them for the following Easter. It was natural for the flower to be named the Easter lily. And many years later it was natural for the Easter Seal Society, which makes its nationwide appeal on behalf of crippled children at Easter time, to adopt it as a symbol of hope for crippled children. A stylized lily is traditional feature of Easter Seals every year, helping to carry the appeal for funds to give care and treatment to crippled chih dren throughout our nation.
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