U NDER this heading will be found some of the most valuable foliage and 
flowering plants, suitable for shrubbery borders or large beds. Clumps 
of the grasses, with the center of Arundo Don ax , make very ornamental, lasting 
and thoroughly satisfactory groups. They thrive with very little care, and year 
by year make stronger, showier beds. 
ARUNDO 
A. Donax. This noble reed, with its graceful tropical foliage, is the 
hardiest and most useful of the bamboo-like plants, and particularly effective 
when planted in an isolated position on the lawn or on the margin of a lake or 
stream. The canes of this plant with us attain the height of 18 to 20 feet. 
A. Donax, var. variegata. A form of the above, but with foliage marked 
with creamy white; it seldom grows more than 5 to 7 feet in height, and 
requires some protection during the winter. 
BAM BUSA 
B. Metake. This is a true Bamboo; a native of Japan. It grows from 
5 to 8 feet in height, and has bright green, palm-like foliage. Succeeds well in 
almost any situation, and is excellent for planting on steep banks. 
ERIANTHUS 
E. Ravennae. A hardy ornamental grass which grows from 9 to 12 feet 
high, frequently throwing up from 30 to 50 flower-spikes. It resembles the 
Pampas Grass, but the grayish brown blooms are smaller. 
EULALIA 
E. Japonica. A beautiful, hardy, ornamental Japanese grass. The foli¬ 
age is deep green, and in autumn it bears long flower-spikes, surmounted with 
panicles of purplish brown flowers. One of the most useful. 
E. Japonica, var. variegata. A beautiful form. The long, narrow leaf- 
blades are striped with a broad band of white. In habit of growth and flower 
the same as the foregoing. 
E. Japonica, var. gracillima univittata. This form in growth and flower 
resembles the preceding, but the leaves are very much narrower, giving the 
plant a more graceful habit. 
E. Japonica, var. zebrina. Resembles E. Japonica , but the long leaf- 
blades are marked across the leaf with broad, regular bars of yellow. 
GYNERIUM 
G. argenteum. Pampas Grass. One of the most ornamental and showy 
grasses. Requires protection, and repays the care given it by its handsome foli¬ 
age and its large, silvery white plumes, produced on stems 6 to 8 feet in height. 
PHALARIS 
P. arundinacea, var. variegata. Ribbon Grass. A dwarf grass, foliage 
striped with white. Excellent for bordering shrubberies or beds of grasses. 
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