1 6 The Flower Garden 



flowered Vincas, twelve inches apart. Edge with scar- 

 let Phlox Drummondii or blue Tom Thumb Agera- 

 tum, six inches apart. 



Nine-foot Bed of Ornamental Grasses 



LARGE clump of Arundo Donax in centre. First 

 row, three feet out, three Erianthus Ravennae, 

 six feet apart ; second row, twelve Eulalia gracillima 

 univittata, two feet apart. 



Eight-foot Bed 



A LARGE clump of Setaria magna in the centre. 

 First row, Coix lachryma, eighteen inches 

 apart ; second row, twenty inches out, Pennisetum 

 Ruppellianum, eighteen inches apart. 



I cannot too highly recommend the planting of 

 ornamental grasses on the lawn. They are exten- 

 sively used in parks and in other public grounds, but 

 not nearly so extensively as they should be on private 

 grounds. Many of them are perfectly hardy, and 

 once established grow in Jbeauty from year to year; 

 others in the Northern States may be easily wintered 

 in the cellar, while still others may be cheaply and 

 easily raised from seed each year. 



