THE BIG BOG AND ITS LILIES 169 
orange lilies of every cottage garden continues, and 
in the glow the varieties of Martagon and early- 
blooming Hansoni pass almost unnoticed. August wit- 
nesses the triumph of awratum; but this is soon crowded 
out by the onslaught of all the Panther-group, Parda- 
linum at its head, Grayi, Roezlii, Henryi, superbum, 
Humboldtii, and canadense pressing close. And, in my 
garden, while these flames of red-gold fire are blazing, 
they are half-quenched by the soft violet of the common 
wild Vicia Cracca, which has established itself as a weed 
in the bog-garden, and yearly threatens to strangle in its 
chains of purple the swathed, labouring fires of Lidiwm 
Roezli and Lilium pardalinum. 'Then, after these, while 
auratum and longiflorum still gloriously linger, speciosum 
and tigrinwm are preparing their buds. With the last 
lapsing petals of awratum break the first buds of 
tigrinum, and, in a little, if frosts hold off, the blooms 
of all the Speciosums open, and carry the triumph of the 
Lilies far on into the dank, decaying days of autumn. 
Even in the sere sad hours of late summer, amid the 
withered herbage of the rock-garden, you hail the terrify- 
ing scarlet Turk’s Caps of Lilium chalcedonicum, repeat- 
ing in colour, though with more than doubled size, the 
brief June splendour of tiny little fairy-like tenaifolrum, 
blossoming in the dry, warm, sandy corner of the rock- 
work, And, last of all, while Christmas approaches in 
its black horror of death and decay, the towering six-foot 
spikes of Liliwm callosum make their annual silly attempt 
to flower, pushing more and more strongly every year in 
ordinary soil, but never, apparently, able to complete 
their lush growth and come to blossom before the depths 
of winter. If only it had not this foolish habit, callosum 
would be a very valuable Lily, magnificently healthy and 
persistent, tall, long-leaved, graceful, with profusion of 
reflexing orange flowers. Perhaps in time this new-comer 
