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Dreer's Garden Calendar. 



HARDY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. 



P.iiiPAS Grass. 



PAMPAS GEASS (Gynerium Argenteum.) The most elegant of all 

 the Ornamental Grasses, producing a grand eiFect 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 tops together and enclosing in a 



