THE YELLOW SHEETS 

plant labels. Of course | know some 
plants personally, but without labels, 
am likely to get new plants mixed. 
Cannot now put any dependence in 
my labels. Found a small child of a 
neighbor going off with some of my 
labels. That may account for it. 
Several have written asking me why 
I use botanical names. The truth is 
Necessity. Common names are local; 
botanical names are world wide. Com- 
mon names vary in different sections. 
The Yellow Sheets go by subscription 
into practically every state, England 
and Italy; as sample copies have gone 
to Canada, Mexico, Central America, 
Venezuela, West Indies, three different 
points in Africa, Hawaii, Philippines, 
Australia and New Zealand. Just re- 
cently received a request for price list 
from a grower in Iceland. Do not now 
recall any from Japan or the mainland 
of Asia, but a grower in Thibet would 
know exactly what plant was meant 
from the botanical name. 
Some further “‘monkeying’’ makes 
me think that a lone housekeeper with 
room for a leaky dishpan in part sun, 
can easily raise a nice bit of Salad. 
Chinese Cabbage is about my favorite 
salad plant. Prepared a pan as for the 
cukes and broadcast seed, trying to 
drop them about an inch apart. Have 
thinned three times, getting salad for 
three adults each time. Enough plants 
left for another serving soon. A 5c 
packet is more than big enough. 
We do not burn leaves. Seems like 
a sin to me—flouting a gift from God 
to gardeners. The goat and cow eat 
some. They make fine litter for chick- 
ens and fine bedding for any stock, 
and fine fertilizer if buried. When we 
moved to this place in 1920, most of 
the land was down to hard _ pan, 
wouldn't sprout weeds. Now, with the 
exception of spots where rocks out- 
crop, all is good corn land and much 
of it good enough for a garden. 
HARDY ROCK GARDEN PLANTS 
HARDY SEDUMS. All Sedums I 
call hardy can survive 15 below zero 
without protection. Some of them are 
hardy in the sub-Arctic. Most are fine 
for rock garden plants. Last year my 
Sempervivums made almost no _ in- 
crease. This year most are “hatching” 
chicks, and when my backlog of orders 
left from last year are filled, I hope to 
have a number of varieties of hardy 
Semps to offer. There is a rock garden 
plant par excellence. Most of the dwarf 
plants listed under other heads, and 
many of the wildlings, are also good 
for rock gardens. 
wholesale quaniities of the 
Sedums: Sarmentosum, 
I have 
following 
hardy to subarctic, 
One sent me Glaucum, much like al- 
bum, but different flowers and winter 
coloring; Album white flowers; ever- 
green with us, an album bybrid has 
never bloomed for me, color of foliage 
slightly different, a grey green one 
which [| think is altissum, good in rock 
garden, dish garden or as a pot plant; 
Acre and Sexanfulare much alike but 
different, both dwarf and good ground 
cover for clayey spots; Maximoiczi, 
little known in U.S.A.—two varieties 
which are in dispute among the botan- - 
ists who have seen them. The dealer 
from whom [ bought them identified 
them as the rare pink-flowered Sto- 
loneferum, and No. 28 as Stolonefe- 
rum coccinea; and the faculty of our 
State Experiment Station at Hope, 
Ark., agrees with him. Other botan- 
ists just as well posted say that both 
are unusual Spurium hybrids. 
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