SAXIFRAGA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. SAXIFRAGA. 



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sort in cultivation. The large flowers are 

 in clusters as in apiculata, and supported 

 on stout erect stems. Vigorous and free 

 growing and of easy culture, it is one of 

 the most desirable of these plants. 

 Flowers in March. 



S. C^ESIA. Resembles an Androsace in 

 the neatness of its tufts. On the Alps it 

 covers the rocks and stones like a silvery 

 moss, and on level ground, where it has 



garden soil, is useful for margins to her- 

 baceous borders, and makes a beautiful 

 covering for moist banks. It is one of 

 the most variable of Saxifrages, its most 

 distinct form being purpurea, with rosy 

 flowers. 



S. CILIATA. A deciduous kind. One of 

 the broad-leaved or Megasea section, with 

 large broad leaves covered with soft hair, 

 and carried on creeping stems. The 



Saxifraga pyraiiiidalis (the great alpine Rockfoil). 



some depth of soil, develops into beautiful 

 little cushions 2 to 6 inches across. It 

 has pretty white flowers in summer on 

 smooth thread-like stems, i to 3 inches 

 high. Though a native of the high Alps 

 and Pyrenees, it thrives in our gardens in 

 very firm sandy soil, if fully exposed and 

 well watered in summer. 



S. C.ESPITOSA. A dwarf kind forming a 

 dense carpet arranged in neat tufts and 

 studded in summer with white blossoms. 

 It succeeds in almost any situation in any 



flower-stems are 6 to 9 inches high, and 

 bear numerous large flesh-coloured flowers 

 in spring. A native of N. India, S. ciliata 

 is suitable for open-air culture in the south 

 of England only, but is so handsome and 

 distinct that it should be tried wherever 

 it can be grown. A sheltered nook in 

 the rock garden, partially shaded, suits 

 it best. 



S. COCHLEARIS. Among summer-flower- 

 ing Saxifrages none is more desirable than 

 this graceful, easily-grown species from 



