LYSICHITON KAMTSCHATKENSE. 
have just precisely that added degree of size and amplitude required 
to carry off the foliage and habit of the plant, and give it a well-furnished 
appearance no less than a rich elegance of habit and blossom. If 
colour is in dispute, it may either be white or pink. There is in 
cultivation a treasure rejoicing in the name of L. pyrenaica grandiflora 
rosea, which may be nothing but a type of the species ; and, under any 
name, is by far the most beautiful of all, bearing throughout the sum- 
mer a profusion of generously-rounded stars in the most delicious shade 
of pure pale pink, absolutely clean and sweet and delicate—with their 
tone (no less than with their size, shape and abundance on the less lush 
mass), driving L. Lagascae dishonoured down into the lowest steps of 
the garden. All these should be raised annually from seed; they 
are easy and hardy, but are apt to resent winter-wet if their soil be not 
drained to perfection. L. pyrenaica belongs to the walls and shady 
cliffs of the Western Pyrenees, as in the crevices of the old monastery 
at Casa Baja, at some 3300 feet. 
L. Viscaria is a much magnified L. alpina, of a foot or two in height, 
with clustered bunches of bright magenta-pink flowers. It is of the 
easiest culture, and blooms in early summer. Some gardens rejoice in 
the double form, which has heads of yet fiercer colour, and is called 
splendens Fl. Pl., being a development from a _ type-splendens, of 
special size and virulence oi blossom ; there is also an albino (as of 
all the pink ones, whether known or unknown), called alba grandiflora, 
no less than a much superior one for our purpose, L. V. alba nana, 
being only some 4 to 6 inches high, and sometimes going disguised 
under the name of Silene tatarica; while L. yunnanensis holds a 
median station between L. Viscaria and L. alpina, having clearer pink 
flowers on stems of half a foot or so in May and June. 
Lysichiton kamtschatkense is a sumptuous Aroid well worthy 
of itssumptuousname. It isa plant of the very deep and very rich bog, 
where, in the early year, it throws up stemless great yellow Callas 
after the fashion of Symplocarpus, to be followed by the unfolding of 
vast glaucous-green tropical foliage lke that of some banana. So 
it is always said to be, so it always proves, and so it may be seen 
in the wild marshes of Japan, and all across the Rockies. Yet when 
first I saw it, in a stinking deep slough of the Hokkaido, in the last 
chill clarity of sundown, one early Apyil of that frozen far island, the 
huge cups were not only as large as those of Calla aethiopica, but also 
as white; and their beauty and impressiveness, shining among the 
pools of still pale water at twilight, was far, far in excess of anything 
ever attained by the common yellow-blossomed form, magnificent 
though this may be, and identical in size and development. 
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