122 The Vncrowned '■'■ Queen'" 



encrusted character it is more pronounced than any 

 other. The typical kind is 9 inches high, crowded in 

 June with its snow-white sprays of blossoms. S. a. 

 minor is a miniature whose hillocks of silvery white 

 catch the eye at any time. A gem for crevice plant- 

 ing. The frail sprays bear numerous starry flowers 

 of snowy purity. It is both choice and an easy doer. 

 In a like category for choiceness is S. hngulata, a 

 rather variable species. Long and very narrow leaves 

 and a crowded, horizontally disposed plume of white 

 flowers mark it well. S. 1. lantoscana has more arch- 

 ing plumes and broader, shorter leaves. Well suited 

 to rocky ledges where a good depth of gritty loam 

 is at hand for the roots. Here, too, may be men- 

 tioned the lovely hybrid Dr. Ramsey, a plant of sur- 

 passing beauty and most amiable to boot. Not more 

 than 6 or 8 inches high, its white flowers, copiously 

 spotted red, appear in May and June. Lastly, S. 

 longif plia, the " queen of the long-leaved Saxifrages." 

 It has hoary-grey rosettes that in their fullest develop- 

 ment may reach dinner-plate dimensions. In its 

 Pyrenean home it favours the crevices of vertical 

 rocks, and sends out at maturity at a subhorizontal 

 angle spire-fashioned plumes of white 2 feet or so 

 in length. After flowering it dies, and the only way 

 to increase it is by seeds which should be sown almost 

 as soon as gathered. The way to grow it is to 

 colonise the seedhngs freely in rock crevices. No- 

 where else is it seen to like advantage. Above all, 

 it is Nature's own inimitable way with one of the 

 most precious of her children. 



"Mossy" Bed-flowered Saxifrages 



The term "Mossy" is fairly appropriate here, and 

 in large measure is suggestive of the habit of growth 

 of the plants. It is particularly so as concerns those 

 varieties more directly descended from S. muscoides 

 or its variety Atropurpurea, whose emerald green 



