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should be left alone for several years to form large ti;f to j 

 but to increase them, it is only necessary to lift them in 

 the spring and divide the roots and plant again. But this 

 must be done with care, and it may sometimes Ije advisable 

 to plant the pieces in a Ijed of sandy soil, or even to pot 

 them and give them careful culture for one year, and then 

 plant them out to make handsome specimens. We have 

 Sjioken of ours as thriving on a heavy soil, but a light 

 sandy soil is much better adapted for this plant, and a 

 spacious rockery is the very best place on which the several 

 varieties will most effectually display their beauties. 



The double-flowering spnder-wort is preferred by man\' 

 to the single, because of its rosette-shaped flowers. It is 

 a good thing to supplement l)ut not to supersede the single 

 ilowers. It is admirably portrayed in the initial and tail ■ 

 piece. 



