ORNAMENTAL GRASSES 
Suitable for Mixed Flower Borders, Winter 
Decorations, Bouquets, &e. 
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NO. PER PKT 
Tiie Ornamental Grasses are graceful and highly Interesting, and should have a place in 
every flower-garden. They produce a beautiful and pleasing contrast when interspersed 
with flowering-plants. Some species, like the Brizas, are very fine for using with cut- 
flowers in the composition of bouquets : and many of them are valuable for drying, and 
are often dyed with various brilliant colors, and mixed with the different kinds of dried 
flowers used for winter ornaments. They should be cut while in flower, and dried quickly 
in the shade. 
1311 Agrostis nebnlosa, a most graceful and elegant species .10 
1312 “ piumosa, feathery and beautiful .10 
1313 Anthoxanthuin gracile, a very graceful-growing grass.10 
1314 Andropogon argenteum, fine silvery foliage. 4 ft..20 
1315 “ formosus, a new half-hardy perennial grass, very ornamental. 6 ft. . .20 
1310 Avena sterilis (Animated Oats), a curious and interesting species, of tall, graceful 
habit, and showy oat-like panicles ..6 
GYNERICM ARGENTEUM (PAMPA8 GRASS). Bee page 80. 
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Briza maxima, large Quaking Grass, beautiful. 1 ft. 
“ compacta, an elegant, compact-growing variety ....... 
“ gracilis, small Quaking Grass, very fine. 
“ geniculata, very elegant, steel-colored flowers. 
Brizopyi-Hm siculum, fine, now, dwarf species, shining foliage. 1 ft. 
Bronnis brizaformis, a splendid, hardy species, blooming in graceful spikes; fine for 
bouquets; biennial. 
“ macrostachyis, new, very large panicles. 
Chloris radiata, a free-blooming annual species, with radiating heads of flowers, very 
pretty. 1 ft.. • 
** elegans, new, of very handsome growth ........ 
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