LIBRARY 
NEW YORK 
BOTANICAL 
GARDEN, 
PREFACE 
Tus little book has no scientific pretensions. It is simply 
an attempt to give a descriptive list, what the French call 
a catalogue raisonné, of the hardy Bamboos in cultivation in 
this country, and to focus such information in regard to them 
as could be obtained from Japanese as well as from European 
sources, and was therefore not readily available to the general 
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NOTE 
Since these pages went to press BaMBusA LAYDEKERI has shown flower 
and fruit in various parts of England. Botanically, according to an 
examination made at Kew, the flower and fruit are not to be dis- 
tinguished from those of ARUNDINARIA Srmont. _ It is possible, there- 
fore, that B. LayDEKERI may be a dwarfed and variegated form of 
ARUNDINARIA Simoni. It is known in Japan as HAKON#-CHIKU. 
Edmund Loder, the Right Hon. A. Smith-Barry, M.P., and 
= Mr. Rashleigh of Menabilly have very kindly communicated 
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