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variety of it. All do best in dry positions on a sunny border 
or rockery. Ordinary soil. S. officinalis, a native of Britain 
and Europe, is a vigorous species, growing 2ft. high, and 
bearing lilac or white flowers in late summer. Suitable for 
rough parts of the wild garden or banks. S. officinalis flore 
pleno is a double form superior to the type. Suitable for large 
mixed sunny borders. Plant in autumn or spring. Increased 
by seeds sown outdoors in April ; division in spring. 
Sa.rra.cenia. (Huntsman’s Horn; Side-saddle Flower). — 
A curious, hardy N. American perennial, with tubular, blood- 
red leaves and furnished with a purple-veined, lid-like 
appendage at the apex. In summer purple flowers are borne 
on scapes a foot high. It belongs to the insectivorous class 
of plants and to its own special order, the Sarraceniaceae. 
This plant requires special culture. It should be grown in 
a bed of moist fibrous peat and sphagnum moss in an open 
sunny spot. If possible, the surface of the bed should be 
covered with living sphagnum moss. The soil must never 
become dry. Plant in spring. Increased by division. 
Saxifragfa (Rockfoil). — A genus of very interesting and 
pretty rock and border perennials of diverse habits of growth, 
belonging to the order Saxifragaceae. The genus is divided into 
four sections by hardy plant specialists. First we have what 
are designated as the Encrusted Saxifrages, with silvery 
foliage borne in rosettes ; secondly, the Mossy Saxifrages, with 
a moss-like growth ; thirdly, the miscellaneous section, with 
foliage of various types ; and, fourthly, the Megasea section, 
with large bold foliage. 
I. Encrusted Saxifrages.— The first section embraces the 
following species: S. aizoon, creamy-white, June; Europe; 
and its varieties, balearica, white, spotted crimson ; carinthiaca, 
white; Griesbachii, rose; intacta, white; La Graveana, snowy- 
white; marginata, white; yellow centre; all requiring a loamy 
soil and to be grown in fissures of rock on rockery. S. 
aizoides, yellow, dotted red, summer ; 3 to 6in. ; Britain ; loam ; 
fissures of shady rockery. S. crustata, white, spotted purple- 
red, summer ; loam ; fissures of sunny rockery. S. Hostii, 
snow-white, dotted purple, May ; height 6 to 12m. ; S. Europe; 
loam ; fissures of sunny rockery ; S. caesia, white, June ; height 
rin. ; Pyrenees; loam; well-drained nook sunny .^ckery. S. 
Cotyledon, white borne as pyramidal panicle, June ; height 
1 to 2ft. ; Europe ; loam ; sunny rockery or old wall. Pyra- 
midalis is a stronger growing variety and not so hardy. S. 
lingulata superba, white, dotted rose, early summer ; height 
i8in. ; Alps; loam; fissures of sunny rockery. S. longifolia, 
snow-white, borne in pyramidal cluster 12 to i8in. long, July; 
