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SAXIFRAGA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEX. 



SAXIFRAGA. 



its great silvery rosettes and elegant 

 pyramids of white flowers many parts of 

 the great mountain ranges of Europe, 

 from the Pyrenees to Lapland. It is the 

 largest of the cultivated Saxifrages, and 

 also the finest, except S. longifolia, the 

 linear leaves of which it does not possess. 

 There is considerable difference in the 

 size of the rosettes, which when grown in 



the parent plant of the offsets as they 

 appear. Many market growers have 

 large stocks of this Rockfoil in pots. It 

 is superb thus grown, but will succeed 

 well in the rock-garden or ordinary 

 border. 



S. crassifolia. A well-known Siberian 

 species of the Megasea section, with large 

 broad leaves. The flowers rise from the 



Saxifraga pyramidalis (the great alpine Rockfoil). 



tufts are generally much smaller than in 

 isolated specimens. The flower - stem 

 varies from 6 to 30 in. high, and about 

 London, in common soil, often reaches 20 

 in. In cultivation the plant usually attains 

 a greater size than on its native rocks. A 

 variety more pyramidal and more robust 

 is known in gardens under the erroneous 

 name of S. nepalensis, and sometimes 

 by the more appropriate one of S. pyra- 

 midalis. To get good specimens, denude 



terminal shoots in showy pendent masses 

 and are pale rose with a suspicion of lilac. 

 The plant fulfils the same purposes as S. 

 cordifolia. The chief varieties are ovata, 

 which carries its deep rose-coloured 

 flowers well above the foliage ; rubra, 

 similar to the last, but with flowers of a 

 deeper tinge of rose ; orbicularis, produc- 

 ing an abundance of light rosy flowers, 

 well above the foliage, and sometimes 

 considered a species, but in reality only a 



