168 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 



group, it flowers in August and September, with parda- 

 linum itself, superbvm, and Roezlii, making the bog into 

 a glory of sunset colour. 



Roezlii is another rare and difficult Lily, taller than 

 Grayi, and much more brilliant, but still a medium- 

 sized species. With this, again, I have had complete 

 success in a corner of the bog above Grayi and not so wet 

 — to balance against my modified failures — hitherto, say 

 I, for hope is the hardiest perennial of all — with Hansoni, 

 and with glorious Henryi, the new Lily from Ichang, 

 which is unworthily called the 'orange speciosum.'' 

 Henryi is three times the height of specioswm and in- 

 finitely more beautiful, with daintily-balanced big flowers 

 of a soft, dreamy apricot-colour. And this new-comer is 

 reported by all growers to be of the cheerfuUest temper 

 and the most exhilarating constitution under almost any 

 treatment. However, fate or folly has been adverse to me. 

 I have grown Henryi, and flowered Henryi, in many soils 

 and aspects. But I have never yet turned it into a weed, 

 never succeeded in growing it into a wild copse of yearly 

 thickening stems. This, though, is by the way, for 

 Henryi is in no way a bog-plant, but will come in among 

 bushes, high up on that precious bank of mine where 

 failure is not known, since it never yet was seen on earth. 



But I must now lay earnest praise and a tribute of 

 gratitude before these Lilies, bog-species or no. They 

 have the longest flowering season of all bulbous races. 

 The ball opens with rubellum in May; then hurry on 

 candidum, alutaceum, monadelpihum. Testaceum follows 

 monadelphum ; then, as summer ripens, the Euleirions 

 take up the tale with longiflorum, and the Arche- 

 leirions break abruptly into the glory of auratum. But 

 before auratum has come, Browni and Chloraster are in 

 bloom ; then Krameri, if you are lucky — and all this 

 while, too, the undistinguished blaze of the common 



