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KENDALL AND WHITNEY'S 
QUAKING GRASS. (Briza) • - 
A very ornamental grass, very useful inboquets, and may be dried and kept 
a long time. 
RHODANTHE. 
A charming everlasting of great beauty, equally valuable for the decora- 
tion of the conservatory and flower garden ; its neat compact growth makes it 
a suitable plant for bedding or ribboning, while its bright colored flowers, 
elegant style of growth, and profuse blooming, render it an object of univer- 
sal admiration ; the flowers, if gathered when young, make valuable winter 
boquets. Succeeds best in a light, rich soil, and a warm, sheltered situation. 
Half-hardy annuals. 
RHODANTHE MANGLESII, a beautiful, small, erect branching plant, with 
numerous starry semi-double daisy-like blossoms of rich rose 
color, suffused with white, retaining their transparency and 
beauty for a considerable period ; 1 ft 10 
" MACULATA, a very beautiful new variety, which differs 
from the foregoing in being taller and more robust ; from one 
to two feet in height ; the blossoms, also, are much larger, 
being on an average one and a half inch in diameter, fully ex- 
panded, of a bright rose or violet purple, with a bright yellow 
center surrounded by a conspicuous dark crimson ring. It 
forms a fine plant for pot culture, or for groups in the open 
border 1 
Mhodanthe, 
RICINUS, ( Castor Oil Bean.) 
Plants with very ornamental foliage and showy fruit, of statelv growth and 
quite a tropical appearance. With other ornamental-leaved mSe 
a most attractive bed on the lawn, and are also desirable wL^Sown^n 
gle specimens. Plant the seed in the open ground, in a dry situation and as 
ear y as safe m the spring The same soil and treatment that wS h %i " food 
early corn is jub suitable for the Ricinus. In the latter part oi hi summer 
the splendid spikes, composed of the seed-vessels, will be goSeous Some 
of the varieties have spikes of a beautiful metallic green, others of a fine S 
most transparent pink and scarlet, which seem tomam^S thB ^ukt 
