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PHeEODUsiA B. SHEPHERD COMPANY’S CATALOGUE 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUMS From mesembria, midday, and anthemom, a flowers; refer- 
ring to the flowers opening on sunny days. The leaves are variable in shape, sometimes thick 
and fleshy, sometimes round and 
resembling the portulaca; fre- 
quently they are most curiously 
formed. Flowers are white, pink, 
blush, rose, bronze-red, crimson, 
inagenta, and various shades of 
yellow, and havea beautiful satin- 
like gloss. They measure from 
aninch to 3 inches in diameter. 
They will grow in any soil, and 
love the hot sun, and are espec- 
ially suited to dry places and for 
covering hillsides or bare places, 
or drooping over banks or for 
borders, or for baskets on ver- 
andas. <A plant in full bloom is 
so completely covered with flow- 
ers as to be perfectly dazzling. 
Aureum. Bright dazzling 
yellow flowers 2 inches across, 
upright grower, compact habit. 
Invaluable for borders; pretty 
short irregular cut foliage. 
Mutable. Bronze and rose 
shaded flowers, perfectly dazzling, 
covering the entire plant like a 
brilliant cushion. Fine mossy 
foliage. 
Auranticum.  Coppery red 
changing to rosy-red and orange. 
Flowers 14% inches across, flne 
ii eS mossy foliage. A beautiful 
i ! variety 
A Group oF MESEMBRYANTHEMUMS. Blandum. Rose and blush. 
Flowers and foliage larger than the others. <A trailer. 1Ce to 25¢ each; $1.00 to $1.50 per doz; 
$3.00 per hun. 50 at 100 rates. 
Cordifolium. New from Europe. 15c each. 
TIGRINUM. A curious and handsome plant with arching leaves fringed at the edges with 
fine small teeth; they are formed like a tiger’s jaw. The flowers are about two inches across, 
silky and a beautiful yellow. 25¢ to 50c each. 
RHIPSALIS or Mistletoe Cactus, Very peculiar plants. Some have long, fleshy, whip like 
branches and white berries similar to mistletoe; some resemble mesembryanthemums, and 
some are mistaken for epiphyllums. The flowers are small, but produced in great abundance. 
5 varieties, 10¢ to 25¢ each. 
ROCHEA Falcata. A most interesting plant with upright stems and broad roundisht flat, 
bluish green leaves that seem closely pressed against the stem. It bears large brush-like 
bunches of small intense scarlet flowers with bright yellow stamens that have a very pretty 
effect. 15c, 25c and 50c. 
SEDUM Stone Crop. A genus of suculent annual, hardy herbaceous, perennial and evergreen 
plants, common to almost every country and climate. It is well adapted for rock work, for 
borders of beds, for baskets and vases for the house, being drouth resisting and most easily 
grown. 
Sieboldii. One of the prettiest with thick, roundish blue-green leaves, the ends of the 
branches bearing fine clusters of small pink flowers. 10c to 25¢ each; $1.50 to $2.00 doz. 
Sieboldii, Variegata. Like the above but with the leaves exquisitely variegated with 
creamy-white. 15¢ to 25c each. 
