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bloom, often containing twenty and sometimes thirty flowers. 

 The species nearest like it on the Pacific coast are Humboldt's 

 lily and the leopard lily, both of which do better in England than 

 L. superbum. 



Second to superbum among practicable lilies for the bog 

 garden I should rank the Canadian wood-lily (Lilium Canadense], 

 which bears red or yellow bells in July. The European 

 dealers take pains to separate these two varieties and 

 they even have a third colour, viz., orange. I saw all three 

 at Tver Heath, and it was a pleasure to see them doing 

 better in an artificial bog garden than I had ever seen 

 them in nature. 



It is customary to speak of "bog lilies," but no one should 

 imagine that the bulbs themselves like constant dampness. Have 

 no stagnant moisture in a bog garden, for it breeds sourness and 

 scum and very few plants worth growing can stand it. The ideal 

 is moving moisture an unfailing water supply combined with 

 perfect drainage. The bulbs of bog lilies should be a few inches 

 above the line of constant moisture. 



A LILY TEN FEET HIGH 



I saw only one thing to beat Lilium superbum and Canadense 

 in England. The summit of an Englishman's ambition is to grow 

 the giant lily of the Himalayas which has been well named Lilium 

 giganteum. 



The picture at plate 99 shows the white trumpets, like those 

 of an Easter lily, but larger and more numerous than on any lily 

 you ever saw or heard of. Imagine a lily ten feet high, bearing 

 twenty flowers, each nearly a foot long! It is very rarely that the 

 dimensions here named are attained in England, but a lily only 



