Excerpt - page 40: "... Lady fern will also cross spontaneously with A. nipponicum `Pictum' (Japanese painted fern), with beautiful results. Cultivars such as `Ghost' and ..."
Excerpt - page 27: "... sent back bamboos, cherries, even a turf of shiba, a Japanesecarpetgrass, Zoysia matrella, which became popular as a fine velvety lawn ..."