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WAYSIDE GARDENS mentor.ohio 
SCUTELLARIA - Skull Cap 
There are many species scattered throughout the world. Baicalensis is 
the only one considered; it is a shrub-like plant with lovely blue flow¬ 
ers suitable for the sunny border or rock garden. 
Culture. Well drained, rich, sandy soil is best. Plant in full sun in bor¬ 
der or rock garden in fall or spring, 10 inches apart. 
• Baicalensis coelestina Three $1.10, Doz. $3.25, 100 $22.50 
Short, wiry stems, one foot high, clothed with clear blue Snapdragon¬ 
shaped flowers during July and August; a very good plant for the 
rockery or in front of the border. 
SENECIO - Ragwort; Groundsel 
Only a few species of this genus are worthy of cultivation. They are 
of vigorous growth, and suitable for the wild garden and the waterside 
only. 
Culture. Those named will thrive in ordinary soil, in partial shade, in 
open woods or under trees. The plants should be grown in small colonies. 
Plant in autumn or early spring, 12 inches apart. 
Clivorum Three $1.10, Doz. $3.25, 100 $22.50 
Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which spring up from July to Oc¬ 
tober a succession of 3-foot stems, with clusters of orange-yellow flow¬ 
ers. One of the few plants that flower profusely in shade. 
•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. 
•Sexangulare Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Very dark green foliage; yellow 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 and 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-bloomer. 
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 beautifully with the foliage. 
•Stoloniferum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Most desirable; evergreen leaves; flowers purplish pink. July and August. 
Excellent for rock garden. 6 inches. 
•Ternatum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
The most satisfactory variety for planting in the shade; for ground 
carpeting under trees or anywhere it is difficult to make plants grow. 
Spreads rapidly and does well on all sorts of soil. 
Saxifraga Decipiens 
SEDUM - Stonecrop 
A genus of plants which vary in habit from dwarf, creeping plants to 
those of larger growth, as Spectabile, which grows about 2 feet high. 
Some are 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. 
Culture. Ordinary soil and dry, sunny borders or dry sunny places in the 
rock garden will suit all. Spectabile, indeed, will also thrive in shade. 
Plant in autumn or spring, 4 to 8 inches apart. 
•Acre 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. 
Anglicum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
A tiny moss-like carpeting plant. Native of England. The whole plant 
disappears under a mass of soft pink starlike flowers. Early summer. 
•Aizoon Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Bright yellow flowers. 1 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 al a premium. Good strong grower but not rampant. 
Florairianum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
This is a choice variety. A tufted plant about 6 inches high. The dark 
green foliage takes on a beautiful bronzy autumn tint, disappears, 
leaving a cluster of reddish rosettes for winter decoration. 
•Glaucum Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries; prostrate and of slow growth; 
lovely blue-green foliage. 
•Kamtschaticum Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Orange-yellow flowers, with prostrate, green foliage, golden in autumn. 
•Kamtschaticum Variegated Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
One of the best, because of its handsome golden variegated foliage 
which blends marvelously with the orange-yellow flowers, which are 
profusely produced in midsummer. 
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. 
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 once 
planted. All flower in June and July. 
• •Arachnoideum 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. 
••Arachnoideum Loggeri Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Similar in growth to Minus except that the rosettes are twice as large 
and produced in greater abundance. A fine cobweb variety. 
• •Atroviolaceum Each 50c, Doz. $5.00 
The largest of the entire collection. Forms a beautiful rosette, almost 
4 inches in diameter when fully grown, of deep reddish purple leaves. 
Should be in every rockery. 8 inches. 
••Brauni 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 tips. Panicles of 
bright red flowers 4 to 6 inches high. Effective grown in large masses. 
• •Fauconette 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 
Green 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. 
•Tectorum 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 Qrandmother's garden. 
All Sempervivum are offered in good size clumps consisting ot many 
big and little plants. 
