June 24, 18(i9. ] 



JOUIiNAL OP HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAhUENHB. 



41t) 



SEDUMS AS BEDDING PLANTS. 



{KcadlnfMr. K U. Baiid, WelluujUm Hoad Nurseries, St.John\i ^yuod, 

 at t/ie United Darticultural iSocittij's Mcelimj, Ajiril lllh, 1869.) 



EDUMS are becoming very fivsliionable, and 

 will 80011 bo more used tlian they are at 

 ' present, 1 therefore think a few hints respect- 

 ing some of them may be found useful, I do 

 not intend to review the whole of the Sedums, 

 but only some of the best, and I shall put 

 them in four sections. 



Section 1 consists of such as may be used 

 for a groundwork or ground-covering for beds 

 that are intended to produce a novel eflect. 

 Some of them were employed last season on what I call 

 the miniature mountains in Battersea Park, but, if I re- 

 member aright, Mr. Gibson called the spot Alpine Point. 



Section 2 includes what are generally known as the 

 Stonecrop or " Acre " section. They are very useful for 

 bedding purposes in hot and dry situations where many 

 other plants would not live. 



Section ;3 will be found a good and useful selection for 

 rockwork. 



Section 4 is very useful for autumn blooming. 



SECTION 1. 



Lyiiium. — This is one of the prettiest; it is very dwarf, 

 and of the most beautiful green 1 have ever seen. 



Fiiriiwsum is a beautiful sort, one of the very best. It 

 is dwarf, and of a very light glaucous green. 



Pruinosiim. — This is generally called glaucum, but tlie 

 former is the proper name. It is very dwarf, of a glaucous 

 green, and spreads rapidly. This is the kind which was 

 chiefly used in Battersea Park last season. 



Album has small, thick, very dark green leaves, and is 

 rapid- growing, tilling-up quickly, and very pretty. 



Corslcum. — This is nearly grey, of dense dwarf habit, 

 and a very good sort. 



Brevifohum. — Greyish- white and red; dwarf; very dis- 

 tinct, and beautiful. 



AiKjlicu'iii. — Very dwarf; light green, turning reddish 

 with hot weather, when it acquiixs a very pretty ap- 

 pearance. 



Diisyphyllum. — This is a large form of corsicum, but of 

 equal beauty. 



Hi!t[Hinii;uin is anotlier very good kind, very dwarf, and 

 of a light glaucous green. 1 think this will prove one of 

 the best. 



'^yun-eam is pretty and distinct in colour and form ; it 

 looks like a very small Echeveria glauca. 



Mu.ltict-i><:, — Small round heads ; very curious and 

 distinct. 



SECTION 2. 



This section is more useful than is generally supposed. 

 One of its uses seems to be the covering of old walls and 

 rockeries. A friend of mine brought me a piece last year 

 from the Vosges Mountains, in the department of the Bas 

 Rhin, and assured me tliat a castle, which was wholly 

 covered with it in full bloom, had the appearance of " a real 

 golden castle." It was the chateau de Hoh-Ka-nigsbourg, 



N» ISO. -Vol, XVI., New SEaiEe. 



near the town of Schlestadt, and tlie ])cople about there 

 called tho plant Gold-dust. As llio specimen was in a 

 rather dry state, I could hardly determine whether it was 

 Sedum acre or S. acre aureum, but I should say it was 

 the former. They are both very beautiful, and not to b« 

 despised though they are only Slonecrops. 



MoriicyaUnse is a fine free-growing variety of the acre 

 style, and very pretty for bedding-out in summer. 



Aiiopeialum, a laige-growing, dark green Stonecrop. 

 which does not appear to bioom at the same time as those 

 previously mentioned. 



OolUnum. — This makes a much neuter and prettier 

 growth than S. anopetalum. 



HrxaiKjulitTc is another large form of S. acre. 



Ochroleiicu.m is somewhat like the former in growth, but 

 the dowers are a kind of stone colour'. 



Pidlidum. — Tliis is a distinct sort ; the colour of the 

 flowers is a pale reddish-brown. 



PulcJttUum is the smallest I have seen of this sectiojo, 

 and is certainly very pretty. 



SECTION 8. 



MtwrMithitiii has long stems; the leaves greyish, and 

 turning reddish with age. 



Miinstrdsum is a very peculiar sort , it is of a very dark 

 green, and grows in the form of a Cockscomb. 



Beyrivhiaiium is a pretty, small, flat-growing kind. 



iSiclwUlU and Siebold'a variiyiUuin are both fine for rock- 

 work, especially the latter, which is one of tlie best of th« 

 genus. 



A::urcuin. is a fine, free, spreading sort. The flowers of 

 tills also look well, as they are bluish. 



Altissimum is of long growth; the leaves fleshy, of a 

 greyish colour. 



KmiUschnlicmn and Braunii are very much alike. They 

 are of a very dark green, and spread very quickly. 



Oiirneum varieyatum. — A very pretty variety, with varie- 

 gated leaves. 



Auacumpseros has flat, glaucous- green leaves, and is fi»e. 



DeuUitam and tleiUicidalum are both good. The latter is 

 of rather longer growth than the former. They are both 

 dark green. 



ForsUriaiiiwi is pretty and distinct, having long shoots 

 thickly studded with fleshy-pointed leaves. 



Gliiuciiin iSmithU is of closer growth than tho Ibnner, 

 and of a more glaucous hue. 



NiyUvUiia. — Very distinct and pretty, resombUng a 

 Mesembryanthemum in growth. 



Pojjulifuliuiii is bush-like in its growth, and has very 

 pretty leaves. It is very distinct. 



iSjieciiisuiii has long stems and round Itavoe, and is a 

 good and useful kind. 



Involiu:r<Un.iii. partakes somewhat of the character of 

 ibericum, but is of much cli^ser habit. 



SECTION 4. 



Fiiliaria has large heads of white flowers. Those of 

 Fahtiria rubrum and Tehpidum are purple. 



These are very useful, coming into bloom in the antnmn. 

 The fiist two are the best, as they are two months later in 



Nc. 10S2.— Vou XLL, Olb SEUES. 



