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terrace garden, or to what comes as near to tlie grand- 

 mother's garden as we ought to expect to get on such a place. 

 It consists of a, plat of green turf with the corners cut 

 to an octagonal line, and then a border of eight feet for the 

 regular hardy garden flowering plants, lined on the farther 

 side by clipped walls of California privet. 



On either corner of the grass plat ai-e tall urns for 

 flowers, and still farther in are tall clusters of grasses, 

 making four keypoints of effect. One of these is made of 



the dazzling white variegated 

 bamboo (Arundo Donax varie- 

 gata), sometimes called ribbon 

 grass, mingled with a blazing 

 spike or two of the red - hot 

 poker plant or Kniphofia alceoides 

 (Tritoma Tlvaria grandiflora ) . 

 These plants are not entirely 

 hardy, and need protection in a 

 cellar during winter. Another 

 of these groups is made up of a tender but splendid- 

 looking grass, Qynm'ium argenteum, pampas grass, with 

 graceful foliage and long silvery plumes. The third 

 clump consists of the hardy Erianthus Havenme, resembling 

 pampas grass, and growing ten or twelve feet high. Eulalia 

 Jouponica variegata and zebrina constitute the fourth and 

 best clump. They ai-e entirely hardy and very ornamental 

 with their leaves striped and banded with white, and their 

 stalks four to six feet high, bearing curly-feathered plumes. 

 Festuca glavca and 8tipa pennata have also their places 

 as attractive grasses. 



STIPA PENNATA. 



