266 FLORA HISTORICA. 



taking care that each has a few fibres to it ; plan , 

 about six of these in a small pot, filled with a 

 composition of loam and rotten leaves or bog-earth, 

 in equal parts, water them and set them by in a 

 shady place for about a week, then plunge them in 

 an open border, exposed not more than half the day 

 to the sun ; in dry weather water them once a day ; 

 the ensuing spring each pot will be covered with a 

 profusion of bloom : to continue this plant in per- 

 fection, it must be thus treated yearly." And it 

 must be recollected that the plant is of that hardy 

 nature as to disdain all tender treatment. 



LONDON PRIDE, or NONE-SO-PRETTY. 



Saxifraga umbrosa. 



Witness the neglect 

 Of all familiar objects, though beheld 

 With transport once. 



Akexside. 



This pretty plant, that now so commonly borders 

 the little flower-gardens of our cottagers, and is so 

 often transplanted by their juvenile gardeners, can- 

 not be known without being admired, although it 

 has of late too frequently given place to plants of 

 inferior beauty. This species of Saxifrage grows 



