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something like a miniature London Pride. 

 The large-leaved Saxifrages such as S. 

 cordifolia (rose-red) are bold and hand- 

 some and adapted to rough rockeries or 

 borders. 



Sedum (Stonecrop). Valuable plants 

 with succulent foliage suitable for dry, sunny 

 places, and generally flowering from June to 

 August. Increased by division or seeds or 

 cuttings. Any light soil will suit. There 

 are very many kinds, of which the following 

 are a few of the best : S. album, 3 inches, 

 white ; anglicum, 3 inches, white, and 

 purple ; corsicum, 3 inches, white ; dasy- 

 phyllum, 3 inches, white ; Ewersii, 6 inches, 

 purple (autumn) ; kamtschaticum, 6 inches, 

 yellow ; lydium, 3 inches, pinkish ; obtus- 

 atum, 6 inches, yellow ; pulchellum, 6 inches, 

 rose ; reflexum, 6 inches, yellow ; spathuli- 

 folium, 6 inches, yellow ; spectabile, 18 

 inches, rosy-pink ; spurium atrosanguineum 

 6 inches, red. 



Sempervivum (Houseleek). Houseleeks 

 are splendid plants for hot, sunny places, 



and need scarcely any soil about their roots. 

 They are increased with little trouble by 

 taking off the rosettes that form round about 

 the parent plant, which dies after flowering. 

 Most of them are best in sunny fissures or 

 in old walls. A selection might consist of 

 the following : arachnoideum, atropur- 

 pureum, californicum, cornutum, Funckii, 

 globiferum, hirtum, Laggeri, montanum and 

 Wulfeni. 



Silene (Gatchfly). Capital rock plants 

 that prefer very sandy soil or the moraine. 

 They are increased by division, cuttings or 

 seeds. Silene acaulis, 6 inches, rose, is very 

 difficult to flower at all freely ; S. alpestris, 

 9 inches, is a charming and easily grown 

 white sort ; S. Elizabethae, 12 inches, is 

 rosy-crimson ; and S. Schafta, 6 inches, 

 has rosy-pink blooms. They flower in 

 summer. 



FLOWERS TO GROW IN THE MORAINE 



Many choice plants, while proving difficult 

 under ordinary rock garden conditions, will 



Rocky mound of Silvery Saxifrages. 



