THE BIG BOG AND ITS LILIES 167 
comes amiss. It will eventhrive among potatoes. But it 
especially loves the cool, rich damps of the bog-garden— 
a high leafy plant, whose one fault, in the typical form, 
is that of sending up too many blind and flowerless 
shoots. 'The flowers, however, if rare, are magnificent— 
big, reflexed, spotted like the pard, on a ground of orange, 
vermilion, and scarlet. In the other forms, too, of this 
splendid Californian, the tendency to sparse-flowering is 
corrected, and Bourgaei, Johnstoni, californicum are all 
varieties of the Panther-Lily which exceed the type, if 
not in size, at all events in profuseness and brilliance. 
And all these Lilies, once inserted in the bog, continue 
thriving and increasing mightily from year to year, as if 
they were the worst of weeds. Liliwm superbum is 
another North American, whose essential beauty is his 
tall, swaying grace. He grows to ten feet or more when 
fairly established in the bog, and carries a loose, airy 
sheaf of medium-sized flowers, more or less reflexed, and 
of the usual fiery colour. 
The Tiger Lily needs no description or advertisement. 
This glory of autumn unfolds too late with me to give 
any perfect pleasure, for how miserable and tantalising to 
see fat, rosy buds all gnarled and browned with frost! 
And Lilium tigrinum is not a bog plant. However, on 
the heights of the bank the Tiger Lily with its trebled 
forms, Fortunet and gigantewm (but not its horrible 
double variety), may well be placed in huge, bold clumps, 
well above superbum, pardalinum, and the others that love 
the damper levels. Among these perhaps my own especial 
joy and pride is the rare and rather ill-reputed Gray, 
which I now have firmly and unquestionably established 
in a sopping corner of the bog, where it yearly doubles 
the number of its spikes. Grayi is a little, slender lily, 
carrying a loose spire of rather small bell-shaped flowers, 
pendulous, of orange and crimson. Like all the Panther- 
