. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . useleeks are cultivated more for foliagethan for flowers. They are not used for as great a va-riety of purposes as Sedums, but they are popular forcarpet bedding, rockwork and covering dry banks andbare sandy wastes. They are of the easiest culture andare quickly multiplied by mean
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . useleeks are cultivated more for foliagethan for flowers. They are not used for as great a va-riety of purposes as Sedums, but they are popular forcarpet bedding, rockwork and covering dry banks andbare sandy wastes. They are of the easiest culture andare quickly multiplied by means of the offsets or ro-settes. They may be used alone for permanent carpetbeds, and for this special purpose are preferable to themore popular but tender Echeveria. The foliage re-mains green all winter. The Ivs. are often spotted withred toward the tip, and this color is brighter if the plantshave full sunlight. The names Houseleek and Hen-and-chickens are loosely applied to the whole these names are to be restricted, the former should beused for Seniperviinim fectorum and the latter for The common species, which grows on theroofs of houses in Europe, is S. fectorum. In the caseof S. globiferum the young rosettes are attached to theparent plant by a more slender thread than usual and. 2310. Rosette and offsets of a Houseleek—Sempervivumtectorum (X >0. more easily detach themselves and roll about. Thespider-web species are the prettiest of them all, by reasonof the webs that cover the young rosettes. These websare made by the plants themselves and are incidental todevelopment. Sempervivum is closely i-elated to Sedum, but thefloral parts are multiples of 6 or some larger number,while the floral parts of Sedum are in 5s. The genusis a difficult one for the botanist. It has been mono-graphed by J. G. Baker in Gardeners Chronicle for SEMPERVIVUM 1878. Bakers scheme has been closely followed below,but some of the names have been changed. SEMPERVIVUM 165
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