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SPECIAL SEDUM COLLECTION 
Six choice varieties for Rock Garden or Wall Garden. 
S. cauticolum S. kamtschaticum S. middendorffianum 
S. ewersi homophyllum S. sieboldii S. spectabile brilliantissimum 
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Sempervivum tectorum. This is the ordinary House-Leek or Hens-and-Chicks. Large 
green rosettes in quickly increasing clumps. A good subject for walls and rock 
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Sempervivum tectorum violaceum. A form of the common Hens-and-Chicks with very 
large rosettes sometimes 3 inches in diameter. The leaves are tinted a charming 
soft violet color through Winter and Spring. SOG eachentotupli2oe Zetote do, 
SEMPERVIVUM. Houseleek. (Crassulaceae, Orpine Family) 
This family is especially useful for dry walls, for they are all neat cushions or 
mats of tight little rosettes that can live with hardly any soil and moisture. This does 
not mean they can be left on top of a hot rock and be expected to flourish. They must 
be planted, but a very light soil in shallow cracks or crevices is enough for their 
meager requirements. They can also be planted directly in the garden in any ordinary 
garden soil that is not too acid. pH 6-8 suits them fine. All must have full sun. 
The names of species, varieties and hybrids are so jumbled up that we have made 
no effort to unscramble them. If the experts cannot do it, nor can we. All those listed 
below are quite distinct from each other and all are charming little rosetted plants 
to dress up your garden. 
Sempervivum arachnoideum. (Cobweb Houseleek) Slow spreading carpet of tight little 
rosettes covered with fine, silky, cobweb-like white wool. Showy clear pink flowers 
on 6 inch stems in July. The illustration can describe better than words. 
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Sempervivum arachnoideum 
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