The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . lg. Hum) ; Blue grass (^Igrosth) ; and Green grass (Poa),all furnish excellent varieties well aJapted to lawnpurposes. It is wise to watch the natural grasses ofthe locality, and what seems to thrive well, that kindemploy. The Spergula pilifera, to which we first called at-tention, and described it fully in our last volume, isnow attracting much notice. Mr. Sargents commu-nication, in another column, shows satisfactorily itswinter character, and if it should prove as able tostand our hot suns, as it has the winter, it must bevaluable. A Com
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . lg. Hum) ; Blue grass (^Igrosth) ; and Green grass (Poa),all furnish excellent varieties well aJapted to lawnpurposes. It is wise to watch the natural grasses ofthe locality, and what seems to thrive well, that kindemploy. The Spergula pilifera, to which we first called at-tention, and described it fully in our last volume, isnow attracting much notice. Mr. Sargents commu-nication, in another column, shows satisfactorily itswinter character, and if it should prove as able tostand our hot suns, as it has the winter, it must bevaluable. A Committee of the Pennsylvania Horti-cultural Society recently reported against it, as unfit forour hot Summers; but we cannot learn that any ofthe members ever had any experience in it. To tryas far as we could this winter, we put a plant in atwo inch pot, and set it on a hot sunny shelf in astove, and kept it barely dry enough to support life ;but it has kept beautifully green and healthy and wehave made from it the annexed cut:. Besides this, there arc native plants very closelyallied,—Anydiia dichotoma, and Satjina procumbens,—the last so much like the plant in question, that wehave difficulty in seeing the difference,—that may beseen any Summers day thriving on dry barren rocks,about Philadelphia, and doubtless, many other places. From these facts we have great hopes that this newlawn grass will be of very great value ; this, however,the coming season will test; and then, if successful,we may not have to recommend, as we now must, tomow often. PLANTS WITH ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE. {See Frontispiece.) The horticultural and floricultural, like the politi-cal world, must have its hobbies, and at present theformer seems to ride on grapes, and the floricultural,or rather, (to coin a word for the occasion.) the foliicultural community on loaf plants. We have recently
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