i8o THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



depressions between these would make excellent places for Osmunda 

 regalis, Lilium giganteum, L. pardalinum, L. canadense, and L. 

 superbum in peaty beds. The latter three of these are really 

 swamp-loving by nature, and it is scarcely possible to see them in 

 anything approaching perfection elsewhere. In the moisture so close 

 at hand such things simply revel, and the owner of them may for 

 years see them towering far above his head in their day of flowering 

 a picture of health and beauty. With such things it should always 

 be borne in mind that constant saturation is not absolutely essential, 

 though, indeed, they receive it more or less in their native habitats. 



Cypripedium. Trillium. Sarracenia. Helonias. Pinguicula. 



A bog garden. 



Where space for bog gardens is limited, a very charming carpet to 

 the Lilies just named would be the Wood Lily of North America 

 (Trillium grandiflorum). The two things may be planted or 

 replanted at the same season when necessity arises. The Trillium, 

 moreover, would come in spring-time and would protect the growth 

 of the Lilium against our late spring frosts. For the Liliums a foot 

 deep of peat, leaf-soil, and turf, with sharp river grit, would form a 

 good bed, and with a mulch each year of leaf-soil and a little very 

 rotten manure would serve them for many years. It may surprise 

 many to know that under such conditions these Trilliums would in 

 a few years, if left alone, attain to nearly 2 feet and be lovely in the 

 size and purity of their flowers. In another of these depressions 



