76 SAXIFRAGA VIRGINIENSIS. EARLY WHITE SAXIFRAGE. 



tions. Nature does not tell us all she knows at once, but deals 

 it out in small portions at a time. 



The Early Saxifrage bears cultivation very well, if not planted 

 in too hot a place, or where the water stands. It can easily be 

 increased by dividing the roots. As of many other species, 

 double forms may also occasionally be found of this. In one 

 of the early volumes of the " Naturalist," such a double form is 

 referred to as having been found in Pennsylvania, and in the 

 volume for 1877 it is noticed that another of the same kind 

 was found. This last is now under cultivation by Mr. Jackson 

 Dawson, the chief gardener of the Arnold Arboretum, at Boston. 



