MENTOR. . OHIO 
WAYSIDE 
G A R D E M S 
SEDUM - Stonecrop 
A genus of plants which vary in habit from dworf, creeping plants to 
those of larger growth, as Spectabile, which grows about 2 feet high. 
Some ore evergreen and others of deciduous growth. The dwarf kinds 
do well as edgings to borders or in rock gardens. Others are suitable 
for grouping in the border. They are the easiest of plants to grow. 
Culture. Ordiriary soil and dry, sunny borders or dry sunny places in the 
rock garden will suit all. Spectabile, indeed, will also thrive in shade. 
For edging purposes simply plant a few inches apart, and in due course 
they will develop into a continuous mass of foliage. They will grow 
where little else will, thrive. Plant in autumn or spring, 4 to 8 inches 
apart. 
*Aere Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
(Golden Moss). Much used for covering graves; foliage green; flowers 
bright yellow; prostrate and slowly spreading. 
Anglicunr Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00,'100 $20.00 
A tiny moss-like carpeting plant. Native of England. The whole plant 
disappears under a constellation of soft pink starlike flowers. Early 
summer. 
*Aixoon Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Bright yellow flowers#! foot. July and August. 
«Album Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Dwarf and spreading; thick, waxy round. foliage, white flowers; good 
rock plant. 
«Eversi ^ Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
A very nice variety of sub-trailing habit. Foliage is glaucous gray. In 
garden is at a premium. Good,strong grower but not rampant. 
=>Gloucum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries; prostrate and of slow growth; 
lovely blue-green foliage. 
’S’Komfschoticum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Orange-yellow flowers, with prostrate, green foliage, turning golden in 
autumn. 
’^'Komtschaticum Variegated Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
One of the best, because of its hondsome dull golden variegated foliage 
which blends marvelously with the orange-yellow' flowers, which are 
profusely produced in midsummer at a time when color in the rock 
garden is at a premium.- Good strong grower but not rampant. 
Lydium . Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Very fine rock plant, blue-green foliage,and of prostrate habit. 
Rupestre Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Pretty glaucous, bluish green leaves of trailing habit with golden yel¬ 
low flowers; 3 inches high. 
’i’Sarmentosum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries or border edgings. The best 
Sedum for filling seams between rocks in wall garden; rapid grower. 
^’Sexongulore Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Very dark green foliage; y.elloW flowers; habit much like Acre. 
*Sieboldi‘ Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Round, succulent, glaucous foliage; bright pink flowers in September. 
The loveliest of all the Sedums. 
=^Spurium coccineum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
A beautiful rosy crimson-flowered form; July ond August. 6 inches. Very 
fast spreading variety; good for covering sandy banks. 
Spectabile Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
One of the prettiest erect-growing species, attaining a height of 18 
inches, with broad, light green foliage and immense heads of hand¬ 
some, showy, rose colored flowers; indispensable as a late fall-blooming 
plant. 
Spectabile "Brilliant” Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
A richly colored form of the' preceding, being a bright amaranth-red. 
=!‘Spathulatum purpureum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Reddish leaves with gray in center of the rosette. Dark yellow* flowers, 
contrasting beputifirlly With the foliage. 
fStoloniferum Three'$0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Most desirable; evergreen leaves; flov^ers purplish pink. July and August. 
Excellent for rock garden. 6 inches. 
’■■'Ternatum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
The most satisfactory voriety for planting in the shade; for ground 
corpeting under trees or anywhere it is difficult to make plants grow. 
Spreads rapidly and does well on all sorts of soil. 
Sedum Sieboldi 
Sempervivum 
SEMPERVIVUM - House Leek 
Most attractive, hardy, succulent plants for the rock garden and rock, 
wall. Their rosette-like, thick leaves are fleshy and pointed. The small 
clumps slowly spread, filling pockets and crevices between the rocks. 
Culture. All require a rich, sandy and perfectly drained soil in full sun. 
Planting may be done in fall or spring, 3 to 4 inches apart. It takes a 
few months for them to get well established. Do not disturb when onde 
planted. The old rosettes disappear after flowering but their place is 
taken by nurnerous young plants so thot they are never missed. The 
flowers are all in small panicles on short, fleshy stems; all flower in 
June and July. 
’i"i’Arachnoideuni fimbriatum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
A fine cobweb rosette about one inch long at the end of which appear 
the young plants giving a lovely star-like effect. 
>;:i;:Arachnoideuni Logger! Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Similar in growth to-Minus except that the rosettes are twice os large 
and produced in greater abundance. A fine cobweb variety. 
::::^Atroviolaccum Each 50c, Doz. $5.00 
The largest of the entire collection. Forms a beautiful rosette, olmost 
4 inches in diameter when fully grown, of deep reddish purple leaves. 
Should be in every rockery. 8 inches. 
**Brouni Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
A very attractive rosette-like plant. Color of leaves is bronze, almost a 
dull red at tip of leaves. At the base a dull green. 6 inches. 
**Doellianum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Small, hairy rosettes of pale green leaves, tinted red at the tips. The 
panicles of bright red flowers are 4 to 6 inches high. Effective when 
grown in large masses. 
Fouconette Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Very,similar to Brauni. The general makeup of the plant, however, is a 
little finer and more delicate.-6 inches. 
^^Funcki Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Gfeen tipped brownish rosettes produced rapidly in great numbers. A 
very fine sort to use where a brownish color is desired. 6 inches. 
<”:-Globiferum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Flattened rosettes, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, of gray-green leaves, 
lightly tipped brown. Pale yellow flowers, three-fourths to one inch in 
diameter, in densely hairy panicles. 1 foot high. 
*Teetorum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Broad rosettes, the leaves having reddish brown tips; flowers pale red. 
1 foot. This is the common House Leek of our grandmother's gorden. 
All Sempervivum are offered in good size clumps consisting of many 
big and little plants. 
