21 AUGUST 1909, Page 20

[To Till EDITOR OF TIER " SVICTATOR."1

SIR,—Can any of your readers say how it has come about that the English Martagon lily (which, by the way, grows wild in a remote part of the Forest of Dean and may be

indigenous there) bears the quaint name of " Turn-again- gentlemen " P—I am, Sir, &c., W. L. M.

[Is "Start-up-and-kiss-me," we wonder—we have not as yet been able to identify the flower, but the name appears in our Elizabethan literature—of the same family as the flower named by our correspondent P—En. Spectator.]