THE BIG BOG AND ITS LILIES 163 
send up their young growths through light scrub of bush 
or fern. When the stalk is mature, its first eighteen 
inches or so will be found bare of leaves; and, to such a 
height, these Lilies like to be shrouded in vegetation, 
which secures their young shoots from drought, storm, 
and frost. Even where the naked stem is not found as 
an indication, almost all Lilies enjoy a light covert, and 
dislike a parching isolation. The sun-loving species— 
Heldreichi, tenuifolium, philippinense, concolor, medeoloeides, 
avenaceum, callosum, chalcedonicum, candidum, and testa- 
ceum—are more or less exceptional, of course, even if one 
can ever make a rule for candidum and testacewm (which 
one never can, as candidum sometimes seems to revel in 
shade); but, in practice, you can rarely do wrong by 
planting Lilies among Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Daphnes, 
and big ferns. Auratwm, again, sets the fashion in the 
matter of food. Auratum has not the perverted gross- 
ness of g7ganteum, for whom no garbage is too disgusting ; 
but awratum is still a rank, hearty feeder, and you cannot 
possibly give it too rich and solid nourishment. The 
more manure it has the more violently will it grow from 
year to year, and the more years will it magnificently 
endure. Naturally the manure must not be too new or 
crude; but it cannot easily be too rich. And this rule 
governs almost all Lilies, especially all the forms of 
speciosum, which, however beautiful, have no place on my 
bank, because they bloom so late that the frosts begin, 
as a general thing, before their buds unfold. 
The twin Lilies, long confused, monadelphum and 
szovitzianum, are not, I fancy, quite so greedy. They 
are very splendid people, far too seldom grown, very 
stalwart and perennial, when once established in good 
light loam, in the companionship of trees or bushes. In 
style they are tall and leafy, with abundance of brilliant, 
big yellow flowers, like very large canary-coloured Marta- 
