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much, but the purple flowered 
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<inds are excellent—in particular, 
the variety speciosus. 
The saxifrages are now beginning to be more in evidence. By 
7 ” section 
the end of the month, many belonging to the “ encrusted 
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will be showing their white or pink blooms. Saxifraga Aizoon 
and its varieties are admirable, either for their silvery foliage or 
for their flowers. S. Cotyledon displays its two foot panicles of 
white flowers. S. Macnabiana (Fig. 18), a hybrid, of shorter 
growth, its white flowers dotted with red, is perhaps the most 
