UNDER this heading will be found some of the most valuable foliage and 

 flowering plants, suitable for shrubbery borders or large beds. Clumps 

 of the grasses, with the center of Arundo Donax, make very ornamental, lasting 

 and thoroughly satisfactory groups. They thrive with very little care, and year 

 by year make stronger, showier beds. 



ARUNDO 



A. Donax. This noble reed, with its graceful tropical foliage, is the 

 hardiest and most useful of the bamboo-like plants, and particularly effective 

 when planted in an isolated position on the lawn or on the margin of a lake or 

 stream. The canes of this plant with us attain the height of 18 to 20 feet. 



A. Donax, var. variegata. A form of the above, but with foliage marked 



with creamy white ; it seldom grows more than 5 to 7 feet in height, and 

 requires some protection during the winter. 



BAMBUSA 



B. Metake. This is a true Bamboo; a native of Japan. It grows from 



5 to 8 feet in height, and has bright green, palm-like foliage. Succeeds well in 

 almost any situation, and is excellent for planting on steep banks. 



ERIANTHUS 



E. Ravennae. A hardy ornamental grass which grows from 9 to 12 feet 

 high, frequently throwing up from 30 to 50 flower-spikes. It resembles the 

 Pampas Grass, but the grayish brown blooms are smaller. 



EULALIA 



E. Japonica. A beautiful, hardy, ornamental Japanese grass. The foli- 

 age is deep green, and in autumn it bears long flower-spikes, surmounted with 

 panicles of purplish brown flowers. One of the most useful. 



E. Japonica, var. variegata. A beautiful form. The long, narrow leaf- 

 blades are striped with a broad band of white. In habit of growth and flower 

 the same as the foregoing. 



E. Japonica, var. gracillima univittata. This form in growth and flower 

 resembles the preceding, but the leaves are very much narrower, giving the 

 plant a more graceful habit. 



E. Japonica, var. zebrina. Resembles E. Japonica, but the long leaf- 

 blades are marked across the leaf with broad, regular bars of yellow. 



GYNERIUM 



G. argenteum. Pampas Grass. One of the most ornamental and showy 

 grasses. Requires protection, and repays the care given it by its handsome foli- 

 age and its large, silvery white plumes, produced on stems 6 to 8 feet in height. 



PHALARIS 



P. arundinacea, var. variegata. Ribbon Grass. A dwarf grass, foliage 

 striped with white. Excellent for bordering shrubberies or beds of grasses. 



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