170 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
from Japan will settle into ordinary garden routine and 
adapt itself to our conditions. 
Humboldtii and canadense are two more bog-lilies in the 
cousinship of pardalinum, but very much smaller and 
more slender. Canadense grows slenderly to about three 
feet or so, and then, on long pedicels, carries two, or 
perhaps three bell-shaped flowers in orange and crimson, 
near those of Grayi in shape, but rather larger. Hum- 
boldtii is more beautiful again ; and, in its high-sounding 
variety bloomerianum magnificum, more beautiful than 
itself. This form of Humboldtii is the only one to grow. 
It thrives well, and sends up loose, well-furnished spikes 
of flowers, which are large, spotted, very cleanly, and 
brightly coloured in yellow and red, and strike a com- 
promise between the bell-shape of Grayi and the 'Turk’s 
Cap of pardalinum, by assuming the form of a large star, 
just reflexing at the tips. Maritimum, cup-shaped and 
crimson, is a rare, dainty North American which I have 
never grown, and with Humboldt closes my list of Lilies 
for the big ideal bog and bank. 
Of Parryi I dare not speak; this is a Californian, usually 
called a bog-plant, slender, leafy, striking, in shape of 
bloom a medium between pardalinwm and the Iso- 
leirions—that is to say, in the form of a rather shallow 
trumpet, soft, rich yellow, sparsely spotted and very 
sweet. But Parryz is a problem almost insoluble. Cap- 
tain Reid grows it like a weed at Yalding, I understand, 
but no one else, not even the most experienced, has any 
but an evil tale of it. Clearly bog-treatment by itself is 
not enough. I incline to the belief myself that it hates 
bog treatment, except, perhaps, for short periods in the 
year. However, I will say no more. My bank contains 
only such Lilies as are really and honestly healthy, good- 
natured, and robust, capable of adding willingly to a 
garden’s permanent glory; to the capricious, delicate, 
