. Manual of everything for the garden : 1894. Oats). Elegant long drooping pani-cles ; height, 2ft 6c. Briza or Quaking Grass. Very pretty seeds suspended togracefully drooping spikes. B. maxima (Large Quaking Grass) 5c. B. gracilis ( Slender Quaking Grass) 6c. Bromus brizseformis. An elegant biennial grass about 2 feethigh; a beautiful object in the mixed border, bearing graceful panicles 5c Coix lachrymse (Jobs Tears). A perennial succeeding as an annual 5c. Gynerium argenteum ( Pampas Grass ). A beautiful lawn plant,bearing large white woolly plumes in the autumn ; forclumps andsub-tropical
. Manual of everything for the garden : 1894. Oats). Elegant long drooping pani-cles ; height, 2ft 6c. Briza or Quaking Grass. Very pretty seeds suspended togracefully drooping spikes. B. maxima (Large Quaking Grass) 5c. B. gracilis ( Slender Quaking Grass) 6c. Bromus brizseformis. An elegant biennial grass about 2 feethigh; a beautiful object in the mixed border, bearing graceful panicles 5c Coix lachrymse (Jobs Tears). A perennial succeeding as an annual 5c. Gynerium argenteum ( Pampas Grass ). A beautiful lawn plant,bearing large white woolly plumes in the autumn ; forclumps andsub-tropical effects it is indispensable ; in the north it will require protection, or can be kept over in frames, 6 to 10 ft lOo Stipa pennata (Feather Grass). Hardy perennial, with beau-tiful feathered beards; indispensable in winter bouquets 10c Zea Japonica variegata. Japanese striped-leaved corn, 5 ft Collection of 12 Ornamental Grasses ? 60o. t8, §, etc, see pat&@ SO. PETEH HEfifcE^SOri & CO., fiEW YOf^.—piiOWEH SEEDS. 93. EMILY HENDERSON, the Queen of White Sweet Peas. See page W. C. Egan, Secy of the Horticultural Socy of Chicago, writes us, Oct. 27, 93:I desire to state that last spring I obtained some seeds of the Emily HendersonSweet Pea from you. They germinated freely and soon became robust was the first or many varieties to bloom, and was a most profuse bloomer duringthe hot weather, and, late in the fall, gave a great quantity of flowers, while theothers were only furnishing scattering blossoms. It produced long stems, andthe flowers lasted better when cut—not fading away—than any otho- variety ; infact, with me, it was the best Sweet Pea for garden culture that I have yet grown.
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