. Vick's illustrated catalogue and floral guide, 1871 . TAL GRASSES. Those who grow Everlasting Flowers for winter decoration will need a few of the Grasses towork up with them. If they would retain their color, as do the Everlastings, they would beinvaluable; but they lose, even when dried with care, most of their color. In Europe, theGrasses are grown extensively and dyed of various colors, and in this condition are imported byflorists here. Even without this they will be found very useful. Cut about the time of flowering,tie up in little bunches and dry in the shade. pkt. cts. iEgilops cyli
. Vick's illustrated catalogue and floral guide, 1871 . TAL GRASSES. Those who grow Everlasting Flowers for winter decoration will need a few of the Grasses towork up with them. If they would retain their color, as do the Everlastings, they would beinvaluable; but they lose, even when dried with care, most of their color. In Europe, theGrasses are grown extensively and dyed of various colors, and in this condition are imported byflorists here. Even without this they will be found very useful. Cut about the time of flowering,tie up in little bunches and dry in the shade. pkt. cts. iEgilops cylindrica, knotted, curious and pretty, 10 Agrostis nebulosa, the most elegant of Ornamental Grasses ; fine and feathery; very delicate, 10 Steveni, beautifulrlight panicles, 10 Andropogon bombycinus, small heads covered with silky hairs; hardy perennial, ... 25 sorghum, tall, with beautiful chestnut colored panicles, 10 Arundo Donax variegatis aureus, perennial; strong stem, with golden yellow striped leaves; flowers shining like silver; 6 feet high, 25. ORNAMENTAL GRASSES — Continued. pkt. cts. Avena sterilis, ( Animated Oat,) 30 inches high, 10 Briza maxima, an elegant shaking Grass; one of the best of the Ornamental Grasses, per-fectly hardy ; sow in the open ground any time in spring ; 1 foot, 5 geniculata, fine ; small; flowers freely, and is always desirable; 8 inches, .... 5 minor, very small and pretty ; sow early ; 6 inches, 5 media, hardy and good; between maxima and minor, 5 compacta, an erect, compact-growing, very distinct variety of Quaking Grass; new, 15 Brizopyrum siculum, new; dwarf; with shining green leaves; very pretty ; 8 inches, . 5Bromus brizaeformis, a very fine grass with elegant hanging ears; well adapted forboquets, either in summer or winter; flowers second summer; something like Briza maxima ; 1 foot, 5 Carex Grangii, perennial; -beautiful as a border plant, and especially reccmmended for decorating aquariums, . . 25 Chloris radiata, small growth an
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