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easily contented of this group. London Pride (Savifraga um- 
brosa), is excellent for a shady situation with good soil. It makes 
rosettes of spatula-like leaves with pink flowers in airy panicles 
eight to twelve inches high. Another shade-lover is S. rotundi- 
folia with white flowers and orbicular leaves on longish petioles. 
The Golden Drop (Onosina echioides), though scorned by some 
as being coarse and weedy, with us may usually be relied upon 
to make a handsome display of clear yellow flowers. It needs a 
hot sunny situation and rather poor soil. 
The Sea Pink or Common Thrift,—you may call it Statice Ar- 
meria, Armeria vulgaris, or Armeria maritima—is valuable for 
its long blooming qualities, dwarfness, and neat, bright green 
foliage (lig. 1). Its variety Laucheana has brighter, darker, 
rosy flowers. The prize of this genus, however, is the rare /. 
cespitosa, about two inches high with almost stemless heads of 
pale pink flowers. Another species, 4. juncea, blooms off-and- 
on from May until November, and in beauty and rarity ranks 
between A. cespitosa and the Common Thrift. 
The rare and charming /ris flavissima (I. arenaria) (Fig. 19), 
in its good tempered years, gives a succession of yellow flowers on 
stems three or four inches high. In a shady spot in rich woods 
soil the dainty [ris gracilipes is most at home (Fig. 20). Farrer 
displays much enthusiasm in his description of this species: “ Of 
all my little Irises . . . [ris gracilipes is queen 7 
thing, forming a tuft, but never spreading along the ground, with 
a grassy-growing 
three or four flowers carried on airy stems five inches high or so. 
And these flowers are, in shape, miniatures of the half-hardy 
fimbriata with spreading bold falls and tiny standards. But in 
build and coloring they are more exquisite than most things seen 
outside a dream, cut from the filmiest soft pale-blue silk, crumpled 
into half a dozen different lights and tones with a deeper eye sur- 
rounding the pale lined blotch, and following along the crest.” 
The Rock Candytuft (/beris savratilis, Fig. 21) is now at 
its best. This is a valuable long-blooming species, dwarfer, and, 
if anything, more floriferous than the more commonly grown 
I. sempervirens. 
Other plants in bloom at this time include: Mazus reptans (Figs. 
4 and 6) from t 
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re Himalayas, a carpeter that is sometimes too 
