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where its roots penetrate cool ground beneath a neighbouring stone. In such 
a position the somewhat pendulous growth and extreme freedom of flower is well 
displayed, and the plant generally receives the admiration which it rightly 
deserves. From seed of this species there has been raised here a pigmy sport— 
just a dark-green cushion bursting with creamy-yellow flowers, a mossy Saxifrage 
on a grand scale. One little mat, nine years of age, though perhaps one foot 
across, is still beneath two inches in stature, and when covered in bloom represents 
as pretty a picture as one could hope to find in any rock garden. R. Baileyi, 
hailing the Brahmaputra River at the Thibet-Burmese bend, introduced by and 
named after its discoverer. Colonel Bailey, is rapidly developing into a stout, 
bushy shrub of good habit and undoubted hardiness. The conspicuous race¬ 
mose truss of red-purple, saucer-shaped flowers are prettily borne in early May, 
and again, though less plentifully, in mid-October. The plants are profuse 
bloomers, and the fitter of fallen petals that cover the ground around them tends 
but to prolong the effect of an attractive floral display. From a batch of R. 
Baileyi seedlings some interesting diminutive forms have originated, 
characteristic of R. lepidotum, though possibly entitled to specific rank. 
R. ZALEUCUM makes an attractive shapel}^ bush, the neat foliage strikingly 
white on the underside, and the young growth almost rivalling Pieris japonica 
in beauty of tint. The flower, varying from pure white to pale shades of lilac, 
though sparsely borne till the plant is well established, is of decided delicacy 
and refinement. Culturally this species is easily satisfied, and seems equally 
happy in sun or shade. Where a neat, trim hedge of moderate dimensions is 
required, R. zaleucum might well be given a trial. R. leptothrium, though 
eight years old from seed, has not as yet flowered here, and in the ordinar}'- nm 
of positions make singularly slow growth. A few plants, however, in a choice 
spot under the shelter of a high rock, where no glimpse of sun can reach the soil, 
look particular!}' promising, making clean, healthy growth each year vdth rich 
bronze-green foliage. This is a plant which appears to need care, and will 
doubtless well repay those who wait patiently for its “ deep rose flowers with 
crimson markings.” The free growth and good upright habit of the true R. 
D.a.vidsonianu?i have here rapidly resulted in telling six feet specimens, which 
in May are literally covered with flowers, whose colour may be given as an 
attractive blending of pink and mauve. This is a well-disposed plant in almost 
any position, but is perhaps seen to best advantage in open ground and full sun. 
Likewise R. charianthum, less upright and more spreading in habit, vith blooms 
of lilac shading, rivalling in beauty of form and colour some of the best \’arieties 
of R. Augustinii. 
A bed of R. oreotrephes bears each spring a perfect multitude of flowers 
in shades of mauve, the prettily tinted leaves at such a time being scarcely 
discernible, though later asserting themselves as by no means the least attractive 
feature of a really good plant. The freedom with which this species bears seed 
is quite remarkable. 
R. Fortunei CYANOC.A.RPUM has not as yet flowered here, but as foliage plants 
many strong eight-year-old seedlings are distinctly noteworthy, individual 
leaves in some cases measuring nine inches by four. When young, the plants are 
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