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-somiding 

 variety bloomerianum magnijicwm, 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 oi 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 Humboldtii closes my list of Lilies 

 for the big ideal bog and bank. 



OiParryi I dare not speak; this is a Califomian, usually 

 called a bog-plant, slender, leafy, striking, in shape of 

 bloom a medium between pardalinum 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 Parryi 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. 



