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gay, and it may well be used with dwarf alpine plants in forming 

 carpets of living mosaic-work in gardens. The fact that it runs 

 wild on comparatively new brick walls round London does away 

 with the necessity of speaking of its cultivation or propagation. 

 There is a variegated or yellow-tipped variety, i". acre variega- 

 tumj the tips of the shoots of this become of a yellow tone in 

 early spring, so that the tufts or flakes look quite showy at that 

 season. It is suitable for use in the spring garden, on the rock- 

 work, and for the same purposes as the ordinary form. 



SEDUM AISEWM..— White Stonecrop. 



A British plant, with crowded fleshy leaves of a brownish 

 green, and in summer a profusion of white or pinkish flowers 

 in elegant corymbs. Like the common Stonecrop, this occurs 

 on old roofs and rocky places in many parts of Europe, and 

 may be cultivated with the same facility as that well-known 

 plant. It- is worthy of naturalisation on walls or old ruins, in 

 places where it does not occur naturally, and also on the margins 

 of the pathways or the less important surfaces of the rock-garden. 



SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. — Evergreen Orpine. 



A SPECIES easily recognised by its very obtuse and entire 

 glaucous leaves, closely arranged in pyramidal rosettes on the 

 prostrate branches that do not flower. The rose-coloured flowers 

 are in corymbs, not very ornamental, but the distinct aspect of 

 the plant wiU secure it a place on the roclfwork, or among very 

 dwarf border-plants. A native of the Alps, Pyrenees, and moun- 

 tains of Dauphiny, flowering in summer, easily propagated by 

 division, and thriving in any soil. 



SEDUM BB.'EVIFOL.ITJM.—Mealy Stonecrop. 



One of the most fragile and interesting of alpine plants, very 

 nearly allied to 6". dasyphyllum, but recognised at a glance by its 

 pleasing, pinkish, mealy tone, without reference to the botanical 

 characters which divide them. A native of the Southern Pyre- 

 nees and Corsica, in .dry places, and somewhat too delicate for 

 general planting in the open air ; but it may be grown in dryish 

 soil in sunny well-drained parts of rockwork. In small pans or 

 pots it may be grown to great perfection in pit or frame, or the 



