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paths a bit he sifts his sweepings and adds some 

 of these to his mixture he will get about the best 

 preparation going for his Alpines and such-like 

 rock plants. 



The saxifrages are especially plants of the moun- 

 tain regions, and if we go in search of them outside 

 the limits of the British Isles a great choice is open 

 to us. Amongst those that we have cultivated we 

 have the 5*. Rhei, a charming pink-flowered species, 

 figured on Plate XLIII., and, companioning it on 

 the same Plate, the delicate little S. Cymbalaria. 

 Every plant-lover knows and appreciates the ivy- 

 leaved toadflax the Linaria Cymbalaria that 

 festoons our old walls, and will recognise the 

 similarity of form in the foliage of these two 

 plants. The following Plate, XLIV,, brings before 

 us two other members of the genus, the S. Wallacei 

 and the S. Tombeanensis. A great charm of all 

 these plants is the way they form dense tufts or 

 cushions of foliage, from whence rise the very 

 numerous flower-bearing stems. On Plate XLIX. 

 we have another charming little species, the 

 S. aizoides, the yellow mountain saxifrage. This 

 is abundant in the mountains north of England and 

 in Scotland. It grows to a height of some seven 

 inches, and we are bound to confess that our 

 attempts to cultivate it in a Surrey lowland have 

 been attended with but very poor success. 



On Plate XVIII. we find figured the golden 



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