. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Root, Heuchera.—Most of the species of thisfjeuus are of no importance as ornamental plants. TheMexican alum root (H. sanguined) is, however, an exceed-ingly beautiful plant with tufted, heart-shaped or rounded,slightly lobed leaves and leafless peduncles bearing a panicleof bright red flowers. A fine plant for moist places in rock-eries. Grows best in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf mold. Saxifrage, Saxifraga.—Very handsome plants growingin alpine meadows or in the crevices of rocks in highmouutain
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . Root, Heuchera.—Most of the species of thisfjeuus are of no importance as ornamental plants. TheMexican alum root (H. sanguined) is, however, an exceed-ingly beautiful plant with tufted, heart-shaped or rounded,slightly lobed leaves and leafless peduncles bearing a panicleof bright red flowers. A fine plant for moist places in rock-eries. Grows best in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf mold. Saxifrage, Saxifraga.—Very handsome plants growingin alpine meadows or in the crevices of rocks in highmouutain regions. The following are true rock plants andshould be planted or sown in the crevices of rocks wellfilled with a compost of rich, sandy loam, leaf mold, and oldmortar or brick rubbish. If grown in very dry positions,an occasional soaking will be very beneficial, especially inplaces where there is no dew : *S. aizoides, leaves linear-oblong, in crowded masses; flowers golden-yellow, half auinch in diameter, verynumerous in two or three inches. S. Bur* rniint, r^^$^jk$. FIQ. 140-—BURSERS SAXIFRAGE (SAXIFRAGABURSERIANA). leaves sharply three -^^B* angled in rosettes ; plant densely tufted with large, creamy white flowers. 8. ccesici; leaves linear-oblong, grayish ; flowers milky white, in small panicles. Height one to three inches. 8. Camposii, leaves 3i2 ifoerbaceous plants. spathulate or three angled with a deeply lobedapex; flowersin loose corymbs, large, white. Height three or four Cotyledon, leaves linear-spathulate in rosettes, formingneat masses of foliage. Flowers small, white, in ample com-pound panicles from one to two feet high ; one of the kypnoides, the Dovedale moss of England, leaves wedge-shaped, deeply cleft at the apex, forming dense, green mats;flowers white, bell-shaped, nearly an inch wide. 8. longi-folia, leaves six inches, linear-oblong, disposed in beautifuldense rosettes; flowers white, in tall pyramidal panicles
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