168 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
group, it flowers in August and September, with parda- 
Linum itself, superbum, and Roezlit, making the bog into 
a glory of sunset colour. 
Roezlit is another rare and difficult tite taller than 
Grayi, and much more brilliant, but still a medium- 
sized species. With this, again, I have had complete 
success in a corner of the bog above Grayi and not so wet 
—to balance against my modified failures—hitherto, say 
I, for hope is the hardiest perennial of all—with Hansoni, 
and with glorious Henryi, the new Lily from Ichang, 
which is unworthily called the ‘orange speciosum. 
Henryi is three times the height of specioswm and in- 
finitely more beautiful, with daintily-balanced big flowers 
of a soft, dreamy apricot-colour. And this new-comer is 
reported by all growers to be of the cheerfullest temper 
and the most exhilarating constitution under almost any 
treatment. However, fate or folly has been adverse to me. 
I have grown Henryi, and flowered Henryi, in many soils 
and aspects. But I have never yet turned it into a weed, 
never succeeded in growing it into a wild copse of yearly 
thickening stems. This, though, is by the way, for 
Henry? is in no way a bog-plant, but will come in among 
bushes, high up on that precious bank of mine where 
failure is not known, since it never yet was seen on earth. 
But I must now lay earnest praise and a tribute of 
gratitude before these Lilies, bog-species or no. They 
have the longest flowering season of all bulbous races. 
The ball opens with rubellum in May; then hurry on 
candidum, alutaceum, monadelphum. Testaceum follows 
monadelphum; then, as summer ripens, the Euleirions 
take up the tale with Jlongiflorwm, and the Arche- 
leirions break abruptly into the glory of awratwm. But 
before auratum has come, Browni and Chloraster are in 
bloom; then Avrameri, if you are lucky—and all this 
while, too, the undistinguished blaze of the common 
