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quence of nearly every person who grows these in- 

 teresting dwarf plants, keeping them in a shady 

 position, in which they soon perish, or never look 

 such far-glistening ornaments as when grown in the 

 full sun, and supplied with a sufficiency of water. 



The meadow Saxifraga granulata differs in most 

 respects from most of the other members of the 

 family that are in cultivation, and is worth grow- 

 ing ; its double variety, which may be seen in many 

 cottage gardens, is much used in some places for 

 the spring garden, and is in all respects a most de- 

 sirable garden plant. It flowers so abundantly 

 that the very leaves are hidden by the profusion of 

 rather large double flowers. I have noticed it fre- 

 quently in small cottage gardens in Surrey, and it 

 may now be had easily from the nurserymen. It 

 is a pleasing and much admired subject for the 

 spring garden. 



The dense green moss-like Saxifrages are a 

 most important group for the garden, in conse- 

 quence of the fresh and living green which they 

 assume in winter, when everything else begins to 

 look lamentable and ragged — when the fallen 

 leaves rush by, driven by the wet gusts of autumn 

 — and when geraniums and all the fleeting flower- 

 garden plants are cut off by the frost. They grow 



