. Annual catalogue for 1881 containing a list of garden, field and flower seeds, together with prices and cultural directions. Seeds Catalogs; Seed industry and trade New York (State) Albany. STIPA PEXNATA. ERIANTHUS RAVE>-NJE. Nat. Obd. SYNERIUM ARGENTEUM, PAMPAS GRASS. Many varieties of the Ornamental Grasses are curious and beautiful: when dried and tastelully arranged with everlastine: flowers, they make very attractive winter bouquets; for this purpose they should be cut while fresh and green (before turning yellow), tied in small bunches and hung up in the shade. Thev are m
. Annual catalogue for 1881 containing a list of garden, field and flower seeds, together with prices and cultural directions. Seeds Catalogs; Seed industry and trade New York (State) Albany. STIPA PEXNATA. ERIANTHUS RAVE>-NJE. Nat. Obd. SYNERIUM ARGENTEUM, PAMPAS GRASS. Many varieties of the Ornamental Grasses are curious and beautiful: when dried and tastelully arranged with everlastine: flowers, they make very attractive winter bouquets; for this purpose they should be cut while fresh and green (before turning yellow), tied in small bunches and hung up in the shade. Thev are mostlv annuals, and those which are not, with the exception of the Pampas Grass, flower the first 5^ear. They should be sown in April or May, in a good soil, thinned out or transplanted, giving each plant plenty of room. Agrostis Nebulosa, exceedingly graceful and beautiful. Hardy annual, 1 ft Avena Sterilis (Animated Oats), very graceful, with large droopino- spikes on slender stems. Raf'dy annval, 2)^ ft Briza 3Iaxima (Large Quaking Grass), very elegant, one of the best ornamental grasses. Hardy anmial. \ ii — compacta, a distinct and new variety of Quaking grass, very beautiful. Hardy annual Bromus Brizaeformis, a beautiful variety with drooping ears, well adapted for bouquets. Hardy perenniaZ, 1 ft Coix Lachrymae (Job's Tears), a well-known variety. Half-hardy annual Eragrostis Elegans (Love Grass), elegant and pretty, verv much admired. Hardy annual, 2 ft " _ Eriantlius Kavennae, almost identical with the pampas grass, but more hardy. Hardy perennial. {For description see Gymrium Argenteum) Eulalia Japonica, new Japanese ornamental grass, height 6 to 7 ft.; circumfer- ence. 18 ft.; a single plant having from 30 to 40 elegant flower spikes of a violet color. Like pampas grass, it is adapted to lawns Gynerium Argenteum (Pampas Grass), the finest and most noble grass in culti- vation, very ornamental, almost universally grown in the public gardens of Europe; its flowers
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