SAXIFRAGA. 



of the section ; it may be made happy if not permanent in 

 sheltered damp places of well-drained shade in any garden 

 not too arctic and raw. (Summer.) 

 Group VI. Euaeizoonia. — This there is no need to prescribe or 

 describe. Hats off for 8. aeizoon and S. Cotyledon. Almost 

 all the Silver Saxifrages are the easiest glories of the rock-garden, 

 as they are the greatest, thriving in any light good soils in 

 full sun, and no less lovely when winter embroiders the rock- 

 work with their matted rosettes of pearl-beaded silver-green, 

 than in summer when the ledges are awave with their gracious 

 plumes of pink or white or cream. (Early summer.) 

 Group VII. Hircidus.— All these form mats of undivided oval 

 leaves, with yellow or orange flowers gathered at the top of 

 stems usually set with foliage. They are plants for the careful 

 bog, or the wet moraine bed ; and their type is our own very 

 rare 8. Hircidus itself. (Summer to autumn.) 

 Group VIII. Isomeric*. — Claims little comment. These are wood- 

 land plants of dullish bloom, with large rounded and lobed 

 leaves on stems at the base. They come from America and 

 Japan, and have no popular type ; we may take 8. tellimoeides 

 from Japan as their representative, but, like the rest of the 

 group, it is better left than taken. (Summer.) 

 Group IX. Kabschia. — Under this repulsive and irrelevant name 

 lie the dearest (in every sense) jewels of the family. They 

 need not go further for a representative to be proud of than 

 8. Burseriana, which almost flatters their habit of large brilliant 

 blossoms on short stems, over compact mounds of narrow un- 

 divided leathern or spinous foliage early in the year. They 

 deserve, and ask, more care than the rest, requiring a light and 

 rich soil, mixed with about half its own weight of lime-chips, 

 in an open place, but with every precaution taken against 

 their being parched or clogged. If possible, water should flow 

 about a foot or 18 inches beneath their roots in summer, or 

 sunk flower-pots must be filled periodically to supply the 

 deficiency. Large stones may also be buried with the chips 

 amid their equal mixture of half loam, quarter leaf-mould, 

 and quarter sand (but each garden will, of course, make its 

 soil to the mind of its master and the needs of its Kabschias), 

 and if water be unobtainable, the shadow of a great rock in a 

 thirsty land may be attempted asa" pis aller," by planting your 

 Kabschias under the lee of a big boulder which may keep off 

 some of the sun's ferocity, though not his geniality. The 

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