PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 43 
Sedum spectabite 
SEDUMS 
A most interesting and beautiful group of very hardy and drought-resisting plants, 
unusually fine for their evergreen foliage but by no means to be neglected for their 
dainty flowering effects. In early summer the plants are fairly smothered with tiny 
flowers. The low and creeping sorts are unsurpassed for colonies in rock or alpine 
gardens or for low effects in the mixed border, and are also excellent for carpeting in 
cemeteries. 
The taller sorts are fine garden plants. I have, I think, the largest collection in 
America. Of many I can supply limited numbers but do not catalogue here. Send for 
lists. 
Nearly related are Cotyledons; See that heading among Novelties. 
The nomenclature of Sedums is hopelessly confused. I think best in this catalogue 
to divide rather for their garden use. 
The Acre Group 
All are delightful plants, mosslike, and spreading to make dense masses. Admirable 
edgings or for covering difficult spaces; the finest of rock plants and for hanging-baskets. 
Leaves thick and either round or slightly flattened. 
S. acre is 2 to 4 inches high. 
S. acre minor is much more slender. 
S. sexangulare is between the two; very slender. 
S. album grows 4 to 6 inches high, with larger foliage, but thick and fleshy. 
S. album muralis is more compact and reddish. 
S. anglicum has grayish foliage, very delicate leaves and is quite mossy. 
S. dasyphyllum is a tiny plant, hardly an inch high, with grayish blue bead-like 
leaves; its interesting variety, glandulosa, is soft with dense hairs. 
Taller Mossy Sorts 
S. reflexum grows vigorously to 6 inches or more, and will completely cover a diffi- 
cult spot either lightly shaded or dry. 
Var. cristatum is like it, but many of the leaves make a cockscomb-like crest. 
Rupestre is near, but stronger. 
