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GREENWOOD. SOUTH CAROLINA 
THE SHOWY ORNAMENTAL GRASSES 
Regular pkt. 5c; Jumbo pkt. 10c. 
All grasses are more or less graceful and beautiful, but the following are among the finest and 
most admired. A bed of the most choice will afford much satisfaction and pleasure. Clumps of the 
taller ones are elegant as single specimens, while such kinds as Agrostis, Briza, Lagurus, Tricholaena, 
and many others are fine for bouquets in Summer, and when dried may be artistically used with ever- 
lastings for Winter decorations. Some are annuals and some perennials, and all are of easy culture 
from seeds. Stipa Pennata is prized as a pot plant. 
AGROSTIS Nebulosa, | ft. Cloud Grass, cloud-like panicles. 
edges for bouquets and very good for edging the flower 
order. 
eae Gracile, 9 in. Fine for edging of beds or 
orders. 
AVENA Sterillis, 2 ft. Drooping spikes, elegant grass. 
BRIZA Gracillis, 8 in. Spikelets on hair-like stems, pretty. 
Maxima, 2 ft. Big Quaking Grass, elegant, nodding panicles, 
good to cut or dry, fine, annual. 
BROMUS Brizaformis, 2 ft. Fine biennial, bouquets. 
COIX Lachryma, Job’s Tears, 3 ft. Used for beads. 
ELEUSINE Indica (Goose Grass), ha, 1 ft. Ornamenial, pretty 
to cut for lightening flower bouquets. 
ERAGROSTIS Elegans, Love Grass, 10 in. White spikelets, fine. 
ERIANTHUS Ravennae, 6 ft. Plume grass, elegant hardy plant, | 
leaves long, graceful, feathery. 
EULALIA Zebrina, 4 ft. Striped hardy perennial. 
FESTUCA Glauca, | ft. Fine for edging or border. 
GYNERIUM Argenteum, 2 ft. Pampas grass, elegant hardy per- 
ennial, coeingete a Beames which remain very beautiful coe aoe 
over a long period in late summer. 
Roseum, erauiaite big fluffy rosy plumes, hardy. Torores tase 
GYMNOTHRIX Latifolia (Pennisetum), hhp, 5 ft. Leaves 1 ft. 
long and 1 in. wide. Nodding green bristly spikes borne sev- 
eral to a stem. Graceful and highly ornamental, being used 
as a garden subject as well as cutting and drying for winter 
bouquets. 
ISOLEPIS Gracilis, bog plant; drooping, slender foliage, hiding 
the pot; a splendid plant. 
LAGURUS Ovatus, 1 ft. Hare's tail, fluffy white heads, showy 
in gardens from July to Sept., fine. 
PAMPAS GRASS (Cortaderia selloana), hhp, 10-20 ft. One of 
the finest and most showy of all the grasses. Long silky 
white plumes are borne in late summer and last for a month 
or more. They may be cut and dried for winter decoration 
as soon as mature. The plants become more beautiful and 
bear more plumes with age. 
PANICUM Capillare, 2 ft. Panicles large. 
Sulcatum, 3 ft. Palm-like foliage, used for pots. 
PASPALUM Elegans, 3 ft. Elegant Millet Grass. 
PENNISETUM Longistylum, | ft. Half-hardy annual. 
Rueppelianum, 4 ft. Fine big purple plumes. 
STIPA Pennata, 2 ft. Per. Feather Grass, for borders. 
SYNTHERISMA Serotinum (Late-flowering Finger Grass). 
Dense ground cover. Likes low sandy ground. 
TRICHOLAENA Rosea, 2 ft. Fine fluffy rosy plumes with an 
attractive sheen which glistens in the sun. 
UNIOLA Latifolia, 3 ft. Panicles loose, fine for vases. 
ZEA Japonica Quadricolor, 3 ft. Striped in. 4 colors. 
Gracillima Variegata, 3 ft. A beautiful striped sort. 

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Complete Special Mixture of 
Ornamental Grasses 
FINE EASILY-GROWN PALMS 
Regular pkt. 5c: Jumbo pkt. 10c 
The following splendid Palms are readily grown from fresh 
seeds, and are of the easiest culture. The seed require from 
2 to 6 months to germinate, so do not be impatient if the 
plants do not appear promptly. We offer the following 
splendid Palms separately or in complete special mixture. 
CHAMAEROPS Excelsa, a robust Palm with obicular leaves at 
top of trunk, somewhat glaucous. 
ARECASTRUM Romanzoffianum. A fine palm. 
PHOENIX dactylifera (Date Palm). Hardy in deep south; con- 
servatory plant north. Grown commercially for its fruit in 
Florida and California. 
Sylvestris. More beautiful in foliage thanis dactylifera, but its 
fruits are bright orange and non-edible. Very handsome 
house plant. 
SABAL Palmetto, a beautiful native Palm of Florida, big honey- Pot Palm 
producing flower-clusters; almost hardy. 

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