TRY Lewisia Heckneri f 
In YOUR ROCK GARDEN--This Way: 
Select a raised, well drained, north facing location. Soil must be porous, 
sandy, gritty or mixture of rock chips and loam six or eight inches deep. 
No clay, no humus. Shade from midday sun with rock or shrub. Leaf 
rosette should be half-inch above surface; set horizonial to perpendic¬ 
ular. The plant is alpine in nature, slow in growth, and extremely long 
lived. Torrential rains, sleet, snow or ice fail to destroy them in their 
stormy mountain homes. Once planted, don’t move, cover or feed them. 
Lewisia (Oreobroma) Heckneri, has thick, fleshy roots; evergreen 
leaves in flat basal rosette, conspicuously fleshy-toothed; flowers borne 
in panicles on eight-inch scapes. Color, rose-pink, varying to pale yellow 
in some specimens. Closely related to L. Finchi and L. Howelli. 
Postpaid price: 3 large $1; 4 medium $1. March to Oct. delivery. 
JOHN H. HECKNER, Brownsboro, Oregon. No catalog issued, 1935 . 
