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surroundings. It is common, however, in Scotland 

 and in Northern England at high elevations, and 

 on the Snowdon range and other Welsh mountains, 

 and it is in precisely such localities that all our 

 British saxifrages best prosper. The meadow 

 saxifrage S. granulata is, however, abundant in 

 many parts of England, and is an easy and satis- 

 factory plant to cultivate. 



We have grown very freely the kidney-shaped 

 saxifrage. It is a plant of the mountains of South 

 Ireland, but specimens sent to us have flourished well 

 within a few miles of the metropolis. The leaves 

 are reniform and toothed, and of a somewhat dull 

 green, while its flowers are inconspicuous, and as it 

 grows somewhat rampantly, repression rather than 

 encouragement has been its fate at our hands of 

 late years. The best known of the saxifrages is, 

 undoubtedly, the one popularly called the London- 

 pride, a native again of Ireland, but so thoroughly 

 domesticated in cottage gardens almost everywhere 

 that one has no difficulty in getting a slip to start 

 with, and its exuberant energy of growth will soon 

 supply us with as much as we want, and, perchance, 

 even a little more. Like the stone-crop and some few 

 other standard favourites, it will more or less flourish 

 in smoke-laden air, so that one finds it well content 

 to adorn the scanty plot or window-box of the 

 artisan immured in a far-reaching environment of 

 bricks and mortar, yet anxious to rear and tend 



