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44 CARL PURDY, UKIAH, CALIFORNIA 
West American Low Sedums 
These are all from the Western United States, but fully proved hardy throughout 
the East. The leaves are fleshy but flattened ; they form close dense rock covers. Most 
beautiful in growth. 
S. oreganum is a vivid bright green, and most satisfactory. 
S. Purdyii, the most interesting of all, has densely crowded leaf rosettes which 
throw out red threads at the end of which are tiny plants. 30 cts. each. 
S. Jepsonii is the giant of American Sedums. Much larger than either of the others; 
the leaves are wedge-shaped and emarginate, flowering stems often 18 inches high. Fine. 
S. spathulifolium is of more open growth than .S. oreganum, and has rich red tints to 
leaf and flowering stem. Fine. 
S. divergens has bead-like leaves and reddish stems and makes a moss-like covering 
an inch or so high. 
Douglassii type is almost as mossy as Acre. 
The Stoloniferum Group 
ALSO KNOWN AS SPURIUM, CUPREUM, LYDIUM 
These handsome Sedums form low carpet-like masses very attractive and evergreen. 
The leaves are not thick or fleshy. The flowers in some sorts are quite showy. 
S. stoloniferum. Pink. S. stolon'ferum coccineum. Scarlet. 
S. ibericum. More delicate pink. 
Strong- Growing Sedums, not Mossy or Spreading 
These are excellent plants for the general garden. 
S. arboreum is the only one which has round leaves. It makes an interesting tree- 
like growth 8 to 12 inches high. 25 cts. each. 
S. japonicum macrophyllum has broad, glaucous leaves with yellow flowers. 25 
cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
S. Kamtschatictim is an interesting plant 6 to 10 inches high with yellow flowers. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
S. Sieboldii 6 to 8 inches high, makes a dense cluster, and has most attractive bluish 
green foliage and pink flowers. It is a fine plant in any place, and one of the best hanging- 
basket plants that I know of. 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. Strong plants, 25 cts. each, 
$2.50 per doz. 
S. spectabile is from 18 to 24 inches high. Fine foliage; pink flowers. An excellent 
garden plant. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
SHASTA DAISIES. From a much-branched base, which is quite leafy, very many 
slender flowering stems arise to 1 >2 to 3 feet, bearing large, single flowers with golden 
centers (2 to 3 inches across). For many months, from May on, they make a fine mass 
and for cut-flowers are most excellent. 
There is no garden flower which will give better results with like care. In the hardy 
border they are fine. For masses along walks or drives with, we will say, hollyhocks back 
of them, they are superb. In one place I had a mass of these backed by annual scabiosas. 
Planting of Shasta Daisies 
