Dreer' s Garden Calcjidar. 



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HARDY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. 





Pampas Grass. 



PAMPAS GRASS {Gynerium Argenteum.) The most elegant of all 

 the Ornamental Grasses, producing a grand effect on the lawn with 

 its graceful foliage and silvery plumes, on stems 8 to 10 feet high, 

 which are produced in upward of forty, on well-established plants 

 that remain in the open ground from year to year with protection. 

 This is best done by tying the to])s together and enclosing in a 

 flour barrel, with top open and space packed out with straw or 

 leaves ; earthing up the soil well around the outside of barrel. Re- 

 quires a rich and deep soil. The plumes when dried in the shade 



