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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
Pennisetum longistylum, one of the most elegant grasses known. 
Panicum Italicum is one of the best of a beautiful family. P. 
capillare is also a most graceful species. P. Miliaceum (common 
millet) is also well worth a place in any amateur’s garden. Indeed 
all the Panicums are well worth growing. So also is 
Setaria Gcrmauica and Setaria macrocJiceta, the last being a 
thorough “ cat’s-tail ” grass. 
Eragrostis elegans cannot be surpassed for elegance when in 
flower, though until the bloom appears it has rather a coarse 
appearance. 
Milium multijlorum is the most elegant of this elegant family. 
It is invaluable for winter bouquets to mix with everlasting flowers. 
GROUP OF EVERLASTING FLOWERS. 
Airopsis pulchella, a little gem for pot culture. When covered 
with seeds it is quite a curiosity. 
Mordeum jubatum is the pretty squirrel’s -tail grass, a good com- 
panion to Lagurus ovatus. 
(Egilops cylindrical, a stiff, quaint, and not inelegant grass, which 
comes in well for bouquets. 
Lepturus subulalus, a wiry backbone sort of grass that wall make 
any one laugh who sees it for the first time. 
Bromus brizoeformus, a minute grass of the most exquisitely 
graceful construction. It is a genuine candidate for complete 
