Notes and Gleanings. 1S5 



Sedums as Beddixg-Plants {j-ead by Mr. R. H. Bard, Wellingio7i-yoad 

 Nurseries, St. Jo]in''s Wood, at the United Horticultural Society'' s Meeting, 

 April 12, 1S69). — Sedums are becoming very fashionable, and will soon be more 

 used than they are at present. I therefore think a few hints respecting 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 i consists of such as maybe used for a groundwork or ground-cover- 

 ing for beds that are intended to produce a novel effect. Some of them were 

 employed last season on what I call the Miniature Mountains in Battersea Park ; 

 but, if I remember aright, Mr. Gibson called the spot Alpine Point. 



Sect. 2 includes what are generally known as the Stone-Crop, or "Acre " sec- 

 tion. They are very useful for bedding-purposes in hot and dry situations where 

 many other plants would not live. 



Sect. 3 will be found a good and useful selection for rockwork. 



Sect. 4 is very useful for autumn blooming. 



Section i. Lydium. — This is one of the prettiest : it is very dwarf, and of 

 the most beautiful green I have ever seen. 



Farinosuni is a beautiful sort, — one of the very best. It is dwarf, and of a 

 very light glaucous-green. 



Pruinostim. — This is generally called glaucumj but the 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. 



Albufn has small, thick, very dark-green leaves, and is rapid-growing, filling 

 up quickly, and very pretty. 



Corsicum. — This is nearly gray, of dense dwarf habit, and a very good sort. 



Brevifolium. — Grayish-white and red ; dwarf; very distinct and beautiful. 



Anglicum. — Very dwarf; light green, turning reddish with hot weather, 

 when it acquires a very pretty appearance. 



Dasyphylluin. — This is a large form of corsicum, but of equal beauty. 



Hispanicum is another very good kind, very dwarf, and of a light glaucous- 

 green. I think this will prove one of the best. 



Cyaneutn is pretty, and distinct in color and form : it looks like a very small 

 Echeveria glauca. 



Multiceps. — Small round heads ; very curious and distinct. 



Sect. 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 that 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-Koenigsbourg, near the town of Schlestadt ; and the people about there 

 called the plant Gold- Dust. As the specimen was in a rather dry state, I could 

 hardly determine whether it was Seduni acre or S. acre atireuinj but I should 

 say it was the former. They are both very beautiful, and not to be despised, 

 though they are only stone-crops. 



Mornegalense is a fine free-growing variety of the acre style, and very pretty 

 for bedding: out in summer. 



