1868. 



NEW ENGLAOT) FARMER. 



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STBLPED JAPAITESE ISIAIZE. 



The above is perhaps as good a representa- 

 tion of this beautiful plant as can be made by 

 mere printer's ink and -white paper. Its long 

 wavy and gracefully recurved leaves, however, 

 striped with the clearest white and the bright- 

 est green, occasionally showing faint tinges of 

 rose color at the edges, as painted by nature, 

 are quite another thing, and for groups on 

 the lawn or for a back row in the flower-bor- 



der, few plants are more imposing, effective and 

 grand than the ornamental Japanese Maize. 



It is a native of Japan, and was obtained by 

 Mr. Thomas Hogg, in the Japanese garden?;, 

 and sent to this country a few years ago. It 

 has been exhibited at the shows of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the two or 

 three years past. Though a variety of Maize, 

 it differs in many other respects than beauty 



