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and has pale yellow flowers in March. This needs 

 no particular care. It likes lime, a cool, well-drained 

 place, and a light deep soil. If it ceases to bloom it 

 should be divided in early autumn. It is a most 

 valuable spring plant. S. Elizabethae is like a smaller 

 and more delicate apiculata. It should be grown like 

 burseriana, but is easier and more vigorous, in spite 

 of its delicate beauty. S. Salomonii appears to be a 

 hybrid of burseriana; it has the same beautiful white 

 flowers on rather longer stalks. It is as easy as S. 

 Elizabethae. S. Boydii is another hybrid, very small 

 and very slow-growing, a plant for experts. Its white 

 variety, however, is easier and quicker growing. It 

 is also much cheaper. S. Griesbachii is remarkable for 

 its crimson flowers, and quite easy to grow, with a 

 little care. S. caesia is a minute rosette saxifrage, 

 a pretty little plant which must have lime and a fairly 

 cool place, though it is less impatient of heat than 

 some of the Kabschia saxifrages. S. squarrosa is 

 even smaller, and grows higher in the mountains. It 

 requires the same culture as S. caesia, but rather 

 more care. These are plants only for those who care 

 for minute beauty. There are many other species 

 and varieties in this section, some very beautiful, 

 but most of them rare and little grown as yet by ordi- 

 nary gardeners. 



The mossy saxifrages of the dactyloides section, on 

 the other hand, are nearly all very easy to grow, 

 and most of them common in gardens. Dovedale 

 Moss (S. hypnoides) is the best known of them and 



