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GRIFFING’S VICTORY CATALOGUE—1946 

BAMBOO, GRASSES & SOTOL 
USE BAMBOO 
BAMBOO — Bambusa 
The Bamboos deserve far more at- 
tention than they usually receive 
from Landscape Gardeners. Both large 
and small forms, they can be chosen 
for any location. Dense, plume-like 
foliage, entirely evergreen, makes 
them ideal specimens on lawns and in 
parks where they are generously used. 
Certain varieties make beautiful scr- 
eens for hiding garages and outbuild- 
ings and obstructing unsightly views. 
The dwarf type is adapted to hedge 
planting and should be used for pro- 
perty lines, separating lawns and 
flowers or vegetable gardens, or for 
EXTENSIVELY 
There are many uses which 
can be made of the Bamboo 
in general plantings in this area. 
The many varieties make an 
interesting selection in habit of 
growth and color. The Bamboo 
is used extensively in screen 
plantings, formal clipped hedg- 
es, in mixed-border plantings, 
and as specimens in the lawn. 
Also useful in wind-breaks for 
the pasture and in retaining 

walls to hold soil from erosion. Bamboo Makes Nice Specimen on the Lawn or Very Effective 

enclosing any area which is suited to 
hedge plantings. Hardy, cheaper than 
fencing, evergreen and _ unusually 
beautiful, we heartily endorse and re- 
commend dwarf Bamboos for any 
hedge where it can be two or three 
feet wide. 

Bamboo along Fence Line for Screening is Most Desirable 
GRASSES— 
ORNAMENTAL 
PAMPAS GRASS 
Cortaderia argentea 
Beautiful light green foliage, 
gracefully recurved. In the summer 
this Grass sends up tall, silvery plums 
22 ft. long, and 1 ft. wide, which 
are very distinctive and beautiful in 
both form and color 
PINK PAMPAS GRASS 
Cortaderia argentea 
Beautiful light green foliage, 
gracefully recurved. Sends up. tall 
plumes in the summer, which have 
a pinkish hue, and very attractive. 

Pampas Grass 
ALPHONSE KARR 
B. nana alphonse karri 
Attractive soft-green foliage with 
stems of golden yellow, green stripes 
lengthwise. 
FEATHER B. Vulgaris 
Strong grower, Dark green feath- 
ery foliage, green stems. 
GIANT B. dendrocalamus 
Large growing, green-stemmed, 
open growth, wide long leaves. 
GOLDEN Phyllostachys aurea 
Stems golden, large grower, grace- 
ful green foliage. 
NINGALA 
Chimonobambusa falcata 
Dwarf habit. Evergreen Reed. 
Manv small canes, low’ growing 
graceful arching effect. Foliage light 
sreen with tips of leaves curled. 
Yellow stems. Effectively used as 
Clipped Hedges. 
SILVERSTRIPE 
Pleioblastus simoni variegatus 
Leaves have a Silver stripe length- 
wise—Stems golden yellow. 
Class Min. Height XXX 
BGB 15 in. Clump 5 ft. $ 2.60 
BGB 18 in. Clump 7 ft. 3.90 
B&B 2 ft. Clump 9 ft. 5,45 
B&B 3 ft. Clump 12 ft. 7.50 
Balled but not Burlapped, less 25% 
off B&B prices. 

BAMBOO HEDGES ARE 
MOST EFFECTIVE TOO 
We use the Bamboo exten- 
sively in planting hedges, where 
they can be pruned back to a 
uniform size or allowed to grow 
into a natural growth. For a 
higher hedge we recommend 
the use of Alphonse Karr or 
Feather variety, but for a 
small compact growing hedge, 
we recommend the Ningala 
variety, 



Hedge Size Bamboo Clumps— 
Tops pruned 
Class Caliper 
Price per Price per 
100 
Dozen 
NB 2 ine oe $ 4.00 $20.00 
NBS Sr in, Ate es 7.00 50.00 
for Screenings. 
GRASSES Cont’d. 
STRIPED EULALIA 
Miscanthus sinensis variegatus 
Attractive light green foliage, with 
decided white pin stripes lengthwise 
of the blades. Slender white plumes 
ZEBRA GRASS 
Miscanthus sinensis zebrinus 
The foliage is light green with 
white stripes crosswise of the blades. 
Small, slender white plumes. 
Class Min. Size XXX 
B&B 18 in. Clumps Tops Cut $1.90 
BGB 2 ft. Clumps Tops Cut 2.80 
BGB 3 ft. Clumps Tops Cut 4.50 
BALLED but not BURLAPPED at 
25% off BGB PRICES! 


" Bulla Grass 
Large 


Pampas Gr 
SOTOL — Dasylirion 
SAWTOOTH 
Dasylirion serratifolium 
Dark green, narrow’ saw-tooth 
leaves, resembling a Yucca. Older 
plants have a larger number of sym- 
metrically arranged deep green leaves. 
A small brown colored spike to 8 
feet, terminating with about 2 feet 
of yellowish-cream flowers which 
have very prominent stamens, is pro- 
duced during the early summer. 
Good for desert gardens. 
Class Min. Spread XXX 
BSB: 2 OME eh ee eee $3.00 
2c ps6 hes ee Sa 4.50 
BGB 3 ft. 



SOTOL 
clump of Bamboo 
Both Bamboo and Ornamental Grasses are 
useful in the Landscape. Widely used in 
Screen plantings, Hedges, Borders and high 
Wind-breaks. 

