166 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
Martagon—which haunts the dense gloom of pine-forests all 
over far Kastern Asia, from the wooded uplands of China 
to Saghalin and the dank darkness of the jungle in Hok- 
kaido. ‘The stolid, cone-like, scaleless bulbs send out many 
whip-thong roots that are gluttonous for food. Up come 
broad heart-shaped leaves, iridescent, glossy-green. Then, 
after years, a spike, tallest in gigantewm, which reaches to 
twelve or fifteen feet, carrying ten to twenty long, narrow, 
white trumpets, very fragrant, white within, and purplish 
white on the exterior. The plant matures abundant 
seed, throws many offsets, and dies after flowering. 
Giganteum is the only one that need be grown, the 
others being smaller, inferior editions. This Lily is 
grateful for shade, moisture, and shelter, towering magni- 
ficently in sheltered, cool corners of the woodland, among 
ferns, but not requiring the copse-protection that the 
naked-stemmed lilies of the Archeleirion section prefer. 
Indeed, the big heart-shaped leaves of gigantewm admit 
of no such overshadowing. The only other note to offer 
on this Lily is that it has the most hoggish appetite of 
any plant I know. If you want a first-rate colony of 
it on the crest of your bank above the bog, you will 
do well to excavate a pit and fill it with the contents 
of half a dozen swill-troughs and hog-pens; then stamp 
down rich light soil, and plant the lily-bulbs in it. It 
is perfectly robust and hardy, too, though it sometimes 
suffers from cold rains or melting frosts lodging in the 
goblet of the glittering leaves as they first unfold from 
the bulb. 
Passing over now, as a rock-plant, my own especial 
favourite, delicious rwbellum, we come to the lower slopes 
of my bank, and the great lilies that are definitely and 
frankly bog-plants, clamouring for incessant and abun- 
dant moisture. Lilium pardalinum is a tall, rampant 
grower, perennially vigorous, to whom no_ treatment 
