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imported by the millions from Japan 

 and scattered by jobbers all over the 

 country so that every boy can have one, 

 and the split bamboo fishing poles, of 

 which we use nearly $5,000,000 worth 

 every year, are made from the outer 

 layers of wood of the best canes. 

 What baskets can compare in their 

 variety and delicacy of construction 

 with the bamboo baskets of Japan! 

 For watering pipes for small gardens 

 they will have the same use in America 

 that they have in Japan, the joints 

 being broken out with a long iron rod. 

 Our best flower stakes are bamboo. 

 Bamboo bean poles cannot be excelled, 

 and for light arbors, fences, trellises, 

 vine stakes, penholders, pipe stems, 

 kindling wood, spraying nozzle holders, 

 and many kinds of tool handles, they 

 find a wide use in the Orient. 



Anyone who has used a bamboo 

 handled broom will appreciate its light- 

 ness and the smooth finish of its surface, 

 while the split strands of bamboo are 

 so stiff and elastic that they have been 

 used most successfully in broom mak- 

 ing — they may even compete with the 

 broomcom straw for broom manu- 

 facture. 



While these are a few of the obvious 

 uses which will probably be first in- 

 vestigated by Americans, it is incon- 

 ceivable that the ingenuity of the 

 American will not find new uses for so 



unique a raw product as the bamboo, 

 and the Barbour Lathrop grove will 

 play a most important role in the educa- 

 tion of the people of this continent in the 

 uses and beauty of this remarkable 

 plant. 



So far as can, be ascertained, the 

 original plants from which this grove 

 sprang were brought into America by 

 Mr. Andreas E. Moynelo, a Cuban by 

 birth, who was at one time one of the 

 largest rice planters on the coast of 

 Georgia. Mr. Moynelo traveled in the 

 Orient and is said to have brought the 

 plant back with him from the East 

 Indies, but from what particular region 

 is unknown. The importation took 

 place probably in the late eighties. 

 The first planting was made several miles 

 distant from this grove, at the village of 

 Burroughs, and from it, probably within 

 a few years of the time of its first 

 planting, a small plant was taken by 

 Mrs. H. J. Miller and set out near the 

 well back of the house. This was in 

 1890, so that the grove today is twenty- 

 nine years old. Although called an 

 East Indian species, it appears to be 

 very closely related to the best of the 

 Japanese timber bamboos (Phyllostachys 

 bamhusoides) , from which it seems to 

 differ in no reliable character. It 

 appears highly probable that Mr. Moy- 

 nelo got his plants in Japan or China. 



An Exposition of "The New Psychology" 



The Child's Unconscious Mind, by Wilfrid 

 Lay, Ph.D. Pp. 329. Price, $2. New York 

 City: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1919. 



The type of analytical psychology 

 which is usually associated with the 

 name of Freud serves as a useful correct- 

 ive to exaggerated claims of inheritance 

 of mental traits; but some of its ex- 

 ponents show little realization of the 

 facts of heredity. Thus Dr. Lay, whose 

 ill-written book contains a good deal of 

 interesting material, recalls that "the 

 actual nervous constitution, which is 

 determined for the child before the 

 hour of birth, is the inheritance of an 

 infinite number of ancestors, all of 

 whom contribute an approximately equal 



part." It would be difficult to frame 

 a more misleading sentence on the 

 subject. Again, he "is impressed with 

 the tremendous unity of nature, every- 

 thing except man apparently completely 

 fulfilling its appointed function all the 

 time without interruption." The ap- 

 parently imperfect things in nature are 

 "as perfect as their environment allows 

 them to be;" and "is not the most 

 bestial human the best product that his 

 circumstances could make of him?" 

 As Dr. Lay has a good many suggestive 

 ideas on education, it is a pity that his 

 book could not be marked by a sounder 

 biological point of view. 



