Mar 5, 2013

What is a gilliflower?



Gilliflowers

What is a gilliflower?

I did not know so I looked it up in Johnson's Gardeners' Dictionary, edited by J. Fraser, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.  and A. Hemsley (London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1917).  This is a new edition "based on the Original Edition of 1846, thoroughly recast and brought down to the year 1917".

And I quote.

"GILLIFLOWER.  By some supposed to be a corruption of

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