istying of spring-blooming shrubs, wonderful on sunny walls and dry 
slopes. For good form in the plants the whole flowering spike should 
be removed at withering. 
Aethionema stylosum. Delightful small irregularly branched bushes with 
fat blue leaves and flowers of warm shell-pink. 35c. 
A. Warley Hybrid. Dense curtains of fine blue-gray foliage, completely 
covered with bright-rose flowers. 40c. 
Arabis albida Rosabella. A compact plant with clear pink flowers. 25c. 
A. Androsacea. The best of the race; cushions of small silvery rosettes; 
large white flowers on short stems. 50c. 
++ A. blepharophylla. From sturdy rosettes of dark hairy leaves come 
stiffly proud stems with many large deep rose flowers. 35c. 
A. Kelleri. A tight growth of blue-green foliage; white flowers on 2-3 in. 
stems. 25c. 
A. procurrens. Mats of small shining green rosettes covered in early 
spring with airy sprays of glistening almost-white flowers. For a cool 
place. 35c. 
For sheets of splendid early spring color on dry walls and cascading 
down rocky banks there is no more valuable group than the purple 
rock cress—the hybrid aubrietias: 
Aubrietia Dr. Mules. Rich dark purple. 50c. 
A. Gloriosa. Huge clear pink flowers. 50c. 
A. Lavender. Large pale lavender. 50c. 
A. Moerheimi. Large soft rose, 35c. 
Draba olympica. A mossy cushion. Yellow flowers. 25c. 
D. rigida. Tight cushions of minute spine-edged foliage. Vivid gold flowers. 
40c. 
Iberis saxatilis. A dark green tight wad of narrow leaves send out fleshy 
branches, the whole thickly studded with small white flowers. 35c. 
Morisia hypogaea. Handsome rosettes of erin-green coarsely toothed 
leaves, among which appear lemon-yellow flowers. 50c. 
Petrocallis (Draba) pyrenaica. Rock beauty; a minute mat of bright green 
divided leaves and pale lilac flowers. 75c. 
DIAPENSIACEAE 
An ancient family of few genera and few species. For the most part 
they are woodlanders, preferring half-shade and cool acid soil. A 
mulch of pulverized sphagnum once a year is beneficial. Beautiful 
ground covers among rhododendrons and for choice places in the 
rock garden. 
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