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graceful appearance. The Japan Ribbon Grass {Eulalia 

 Japonica variegaia) and the Zebra Grass {EiilaliaJapoiiica 

 zehriiia) each grows to a hight of seven to nine feet, are 

 j)erfectly hardy, and are grand plants for grouping or 

 planting singly on the lawn. Besides being ornamental 

 in foliage, their flower spikes, which, when developed, 

 somewhat resemble ostrich plumes, add much to their 

 beauty. These flower spikes are easily dried, and can be 

 kept for years, making unique parlor ornaments. The 

 Tanyah {Caladium esctilentum) is a tropical looking plant 

 growing three or four feet in hight, and producing leaves 

 sometimes eighteen inches across. 



THE CARPET STYLE OF FLOWER-BED PLANTING 



is now done largely in nearly all the public parks of 

 the large cities in Europe, also with us, particularly in 

 Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Alleghany City. But 

 in the great Central Park of New York and the Prospect 

 Park of Brooklyn, all such ornamentation is mostly con- 

 spicuous by its absence, or is in quantity so meagre and 

 in style so wretched as would disgrace a village of 5,000 

 inhabitants. But if we of New York suffer by the incom- 

 petency or want of taste in the management of our public 

 parks, we have certainly reason to be proud of the efforts 

 of some private gentlemen here. The private grounds 

 of William B. Dinsmore of Staatsburg, N. Y. , and John 

 Hoey of Long Branch, N. J., have been noted for years 

 for their grand display of carpet bedding — unequalcd, 

 perhaps, by anything else in the world. Mr. Hoey's, 

 from its proximity to the famous summer resort of Long 

 Branch, is vi>ited daily by thousands, the private grounds 

 of the munificent owner being thrown open as a public 

 park. In the season of 1886, four beds in the grounds 

 of Mr. Hoey were said to contain a million and a half of 

 plants, arranged so artistically that at a distance they 



