I THE BAMBOO GARDEN ll 
might be determined from the number of times that he had 
witnessed the phenomenon. It is, however, now established 
that the flowering is variable, infrequent, and due to climatic 
causes, 
Arundinaria Simoni furnishes one exception of a Bamboo 
which flowers in England without dying. It has not infre- 
quently borne seed in this country, and has been apparently 
none the worse. Last year (1895) it flowered and seeded in 
more than one English garden. I myself gathered seed from 
one culm of a large clump in a garden in Surrey. The 
remaining culms were all in their normal condition, and 
there was no sign of the leafy stems being replaced by flower- 
bearing branchlets, or of any injury to, or exhaustion of, the 
plant. 
