. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. GRASS cules become distended ju.«t in time to spread the gluraes and liberate the stamens. Grasses are not so much employed for ornamenting homes as their merits warrant. By selecting, some can be found suited to ever
. 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. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. GRASS cules become distended ju.«t in time to spread the gluraes and liberate the stamens. Grasses are not so much employed for ornamenting homes as their merits warrant. By selecting, some can be found suited to every weeli of the growing season, though many of them are in their prime during June, the month of roses. Wild rice (Zizania) is fine for rich soil in the margins of ponds, and masses of reed for deep beds of moist mucli. For massing or for bor- ders the following and others are stately: Artindo Do-. 984. Staminate spikelet of a Grass (maize). Showing two rtorets. one of which (with three stamens is expanded. 1, 1, empty glumes; 2, 2, palets. Enlarged. nax, A. conspiciia, maize, pampas grass, Eulalia, rib- bon grass, Andropixjon formosus, A. Salepensis, As- pereUa Hysfrij-, Tripsacum. For glaucous blue-green, use Ji^lifinus ari'nuriii>:, Fi-.^lum ,j/,iui',lrrs, IIhi, ar. strii'i-cl varieties of Dactylis, Anthoxantliuiii. Al^i uius, ll^lrns lanatns, IT. mollis, Poa triciulis, I'liU iiin iinitciisc; and others may soon be produced. Fur talile ilecoration nothing is better than the elegant, airy panicles of large num- bers of wild Grasses, sucii as s])ccies of Poa, Koeleria, Eatonia, Panicum, Paspalum, ^rrostis, Muhlenbergia, Bromus, Festuca, Agrostis. Dischainpsia, Uniola, Briza, Vinna pendnla. For lai-f,'c halls ami exhibitions, what surpasses sheaves of wheat, Ijarley, rice, oats or any of the wild Grasses f For decoration, Grasses should be cut before ripe, dried in the darli in an upright position, and may be used in that condition or dyed or bleached. For paths,
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