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Carl Purdy, Uriah, California 
SPECIES OF EVERGREEN LEWISIAS 
Culture of Evergreen Lewisias will be found on page 68. 
Time of Planting. Evergreen Lewisias handle easily at any time, except that 
in bud they bruise easily. I can ship them the year around, but I recommend 
spring planting, especially for the East. They flower in May. 
These are best divided in three groups. 
The first group have comparatively narrow leaves in close rosettes and have 
slender graceful scapes of many small flowers. 
Columbianum has a rosette of short leaves and rosy Cowers with dark lines 
down the midrib. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Columbianum Roseum is quite a different plant from Columbianum. The 
rosettes are made up of many very densely overlapping green leaves. The 
many flowered scapes branch and are 6 to 9 inches high, with deep rose colored 
flowers. It is by far the easiest to grow and may flower several times in a 
season. Large plants, 50 cts. each. 
Columbianum “Neeman’s Var.” This newly discovered form is exactly like 
the var. roseum in leaf but with neat white flowers, lined with pink to give a 
soft pink effect. A very desirable new plant. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Eastwoodiana. Foliage like Columbianum. Slender, many flowered scapes 
0 to 9 inches with many small white flowers. New and rare. Each, 50 cts; 3 
for $1.25. 
Leeana, with slender, pine-like leaves and many smaller magenta flowers. It 
forms many-headed clusters. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Howellii-Cotyledon Group of Evergreen Lewisias. These very fine rock plants 
are almost alike in size and shape of the flowers, (see picture of L. Howellii), 
but are very different in the appearance of the plant. The usual rosette is 4 
inches across and well grown specimens are as broad as 8 inches. Flowers are 
from 1 to 1 V 2 inches across. 
Cotyledon has dark green, slightly glaucous long spathulate leaves, often much 
tinted dark red. Unopened buds yellowish orange and flowers usually salmon 
rose, margined white. Scapes more often 5 to 9 flowered. 30 cts. each; 3 for 
75 cts. 
Cotyledon “Shastaensis”. A new variety with narrower leaves in a smaller 
rosette and almost white flowers, with rose stripe. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Finchii. This species varies considerably and I have now selected its very 
finest strain. In this the foliage is deep emerald green with leaves overlapping 
closely to make a solid rosette often 8 in. across. Its few to 20 scapes each 
bear 5 to 40 flowers and plants have been seen with 600' flowers. The buds 
are bright orange. Open, the flowers are soft pink with rose strips and the 
petals margined orange. A fine specimen, is a wonderful sight. Each 40 cts.; 
3 for $1.00. 
Hecknerii is perhaps the best marked of the group. First, the broad dark 
green leaves, red beneath, are margined with slender spines each tipped brown. 
These tiny spines give the effect of a silky fringe. Then the fine large flowers 
are a solid rose pink, without stripe. The bracts and sepals are margined like 
the leaves with even finer spines. A plant bears from a few to many scapes 
each having a few to 12 flowers. Very distinct and desirable. Each 40 cts.; 
3 for $1. 
