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Carl Purdy, Uriah, California 
SEDUMS 
A most interesting and beautiful group of very hardy and drouth-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, for low effects in the mixed border, and 
excellent for cemetery carpeting. 
Some writers caution against putting Sedumis in the rock garden, stating that 
they are too rampant and choke out other plants. This is true of some species 
if they are not curbed but there is not the least danger of Dasyphyllum, 
Lydium ,, Pulchellum encroaching. The West American species stay put, Stolini- 
ferums are easily kept in place, while the strong growing group make clumps 
without spreading if allowed room when planted. It is too fine and desirable a 
group of plants to cast out when a little care will keep in bounds. 
THE ACRE GROUP 
All are delightful plants, moss-like, 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. 
Acre spreads to make a pleasantly light green, moss-like mat; in time it will 
hang over a wall or from a basket several feet. 
Album is very compact, with foliage of a very soft green. 
Album micranthum. A tiny form less than X A in. high. 35 cts. each. 
Album purpure.um. A form retaining its reddish-purple tints throughout the 
season. Very effective. 
Brevifolium. A delightful sort with subglobular leaves and white flowers. 
Coloniensis is a blue-green variety, making a fine mass of foliage about 4 
inches high. One of the Hispanicum group and a fine one. 30 cts. each. 
Dasyphyllum is a tiny plant, hardly an inch high, with grayish-blue, bead-like 
leaves. 
Hispanicum. Perennial form. Delicate grayish foliage. Mossy. 
Hispanicum minus. More dwarf than above and one of the best of the mossy 
Sedums. 
Lydium. Daintiest and most dwarfed of the group and one of the smallest 
known. Makes dense cushions of light green, which in winter take a most at¬ 
tractive, bright red tint, making it even prettier than in summer. 
Moranense. Mexican form with dark green leaves and red stems. 
Pulchellum is perhaps the finest of all Sedums. Low and mossy with fine 
foliage and pink flowers. It must have a shady, moist situation. 50 cts. each. 
Tenuifolia. Long leaves and white flowers. 
Unless priced otherwise, above are 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
TALLER MOSSY SORTS 
Forsterianum is related to Rupestre. Very compact and quite glaucous. 
40 cts. each. 
Reflexum Minor. Low growing. Tints beautifully in winter. 
Rupestre. Rather like Reflexum, but larger. Excellent. 
Sarmentosum makes a low mass with very light green or almost yellow- 
tinted foliage and yellow flowers. All at 25 cts. each. 
WEST AMERICAN LOW SEDUMS 
These are all from the Western United States, but fully proved hardy through¬ 
out the East. The leaves are fleshy but flattened; they form close, dense rock 
covers. 
Divergens. Has bead-like reddish green leaves in a close mass. 25 cts. each; 
3 for 65 cts. 
Jepsonii is the giant of American Sedums. Much larger than any of the 
others. The leaves are wedge-shaped and emarginate; flowering stems often 
18 inches high. Fine. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
Obtusatum is a mountain form of the West which forms dense colonies with 
thick leaves on a coppery tint and quite handsome. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
Oregonum is a vivid bright green, and most satisfactory. 25 cts. each; 3 for 
65 cts. 
