I only got one question out of that I hope, and that was the history of ornamental grasses in Western part of the world. I am a breeder of ornamental grasses and perennials, and I can say hybridizing grasses can be very rewarding, and as everything else, frustrating when production trials start. The exact word hybrid has given us many of the beautiful ornamental grasses that you see today, and if it wasn't for seed trials or crop crosses, you wouldn't see some of the newer varieites with vivid colors, plumes, shapely panicles, and a wide range of usages. Whenever you see a named cultivar in a grass, such as Schizachyrium scoparium "The Blues", it has been trialed, in this class from a batch of seedlings that produced the glaucous coloring and intense shifting of colors in autumn. Not a lot of people know that Schizachyrium scoparium, the parent, was a grass cultivated and raised for forage for cattle for early settlers, cattle ranches, and farms alike. The grass ranged widely throughout the Midwest prairies, but it wasn't until recently the need for an ornamental version of the plain genus specie. Many grasses were imported over from European settlers, and unfortunately many turned invasive, weedy, and troublesome for many of the native prarie grasses. If you want to go into the world of Miscanthus, you can see native Miscanthus specie in Japan, where fields of just plain jane Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus grace the horizon along the coast with silver plume and yellow fall color. Or tracing Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, to China in early 150 b.c. or so, and now its cousins are being trialed and released in North America and Europe as ornamental worthies, like Saccharum arundinaceum ( Hardy Sugarcane ) that can give colors that can rivel Miscanthus in certian zones. In addition, there are more breeding programs going on, with some reulting to using the original specie to cross with some of the fertile cultivars to produce ornamental specimens worthy of finding a city garden or an country landscape.