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Garden Flowers And Shrubs (X Everlasting Flowers)

X. Everlasting Flowers and Ornamental Grasses.

THE ornamental grasses and everlasting flowers (so-called), that is, flowers that retain their color and shape in drying, are considered indispensable in all good collections. Among these should not be omitted panicles of oats and heads of other grains carefully dried, while green, in the shade, and then bleached, if desired, with the fumes of burning sulphur. There are many varieties of some of the species of everlastings mentioned. We give some of the better ones. These are: Acroclinium, white and red; ammobium, white; gomphrena, (globe amaranth), white, flesh-colored, pink and white, and orange; helichrysum, rose, red, white, yellow and crimson; helipterum, white and yellow; rodanthe, white and yellow, purple and violet, rosy purple, etc.; statice, yellow, blue and rose; waitzia, yellow; and xeranthemum, purple, light blue and white.

Besides these, that admirable and truly magnificent plant, Statice Latifolia, with its large trusses of lilac flowers, is most desirable where it is hardy. The cut gives its characteristics of foliage and blossomheads. There are a number of varieties besides the one shown; as S. alba, grandifolia, maritima (sea pink), and S. undulata.