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the queen of yellow-flowered Saxifrages. Ideal for 

 the alpine house, in the rock garden protective fissure 

 or gully in loam and limestone suits them well. The 

 yellow-flowered S. aretioides from the Pyrenees, and 

 one of the presumed parents of S. Boydii, is pretty but 

 difficult. Its variety S. a. primulina is fine!" and more 

 tractable, a good crevice plant. S. caesia from the 

 Pyrenees is white, and June-flowering. It forms 

 spreading silvery patches, the creamy white flowers 

 being borne in loose sprays on frail 3-inch high stems. 

 An amiable plant, happy in fissures in loam and lime- 

 stone with plenty of summer moisture. Quite am.ong 

 the choicest and smallest of true cushion kinds are 

 S. diapensioides and its variety tombeanensis. Rare, 

 and beautiful, both are white-flowered. Suited to 

 crevice planting in very gritty loam. March and 

 April. S. lilacina is from the Himalayas. A minia- 

 ture carpeter of the soil, the reddish-lilac flowers ap- 

 pearing on inch-high stems. Loam and leaf mould 

 with plenty of summer moisture suits it well. Flowers 

 in March, though not freely. S. marginata, S. roche- 

 liana, and S. scardica obtusa, are white-flowered, and 

 grow well in loam, old mortar, and grit. S. sancta 

 from Macedonia separates itself from the "cushion" 

 Saxifrages by its dense mat-forming habit of growth, 

 studded in spring with clusters of deep yellow flowers 

 on sturdy, 2-inch high stems. Vigorous, hardy, free, 

 a lover of moisture, and succeeding in richer soils 

 than the nest, it is admirable for providing broad 

 patches of colour, and effective when not in flower. 

 It is one of the parents of S. Haagei, the most orna- 

 mental and profusely flowered of hybrid yellow sorts. 

 In early spring S. Haagei is aglow with golden colour. 

 Treated generously like S. sancta, it responds hand- 

 somely. ,S. bursiculata is a valuable hybrid of Bur- 

 seriana major and apiculata raised by the author. 

 Amiably disposed and vigorous habited, it is probably 

 the whitest-flowered sort in cultivation. In season in 

 March. A hybrid of great freedom and charm second 



