The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Chrysosplenium

(from chrysos, gold, and splen, the spleen; in reference to the golden colour of the flowers, and the supposed virtue of the plant in diseases of the spleen). Golden Saxifrage. ORD. Saxifrageae. Hardy, perennial herbs. Flowers yellow, somewhat corymbose. Leaves thickish, simple, petiolate, toothed. The two native species, alternifolium and oppositifolium, are not very showy plants, but constitute pretty ornaments for damp, boggy places. They grow about 6in. high and are very easily propagated by divisions.

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