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Frances. 
Drinking cups. ‘ ; : : , 3°00 per dozen 
Napkin rings. 3 ; : , : eB 3 
Ege-cups . ‘ : : : ; LOO. «3; 
Paper-cutters. : : : : : 3°00 ss, 
Shoe-horns : : : BIOKO) 
Tobacco pipes made of priate Babe, prices 
varying 3 ‘ : . from 3 to 10°00 each 
Paper made of stems naa Levies of bamboo. No price given 
Inkstands . : : ; : : 3°00 per dozen 
Penholders in the noth : : : : 2°00 per hundred 
Stems of bamboo fit for paper-making . : No price given 
Canes known as “Java” (? a made of: 
rhizomes 
} from 2 to 5 each 
Canes known as “Queues de boalet? y adage of ne j 
rhizomes which shoot up above ground 
M. Calvert further notes the value of Bamboos for binding 
together with their rhizomes movable soil on sloping ground, a 
merit also pointed out by Messrs. Riviere in their monograph. 
The economical results obtained at Gan might perhaps 
tempt some enterprising horticulturist or farmer in Devon- 
shire or Cornwall to make an experiment of a similar nature. 
The cultivation of Bamboos is of the easiest; the plants 
renew themselves, new shoots taking the place of those 
which are cut; and a permanent profit of something like 
£16 per acre at the end of eight years is an alluring 
bait. But it must be remembered that since 1878 means of 
communication with the far East have vastly increased ; 
Bambao canes are imported at a very low rate, and those 
ripened under a tropical or sub-tropical sun are, as I have 
already pointed out, tougher and more reliable than those 
even of the South of France. 
Tough indeed the canes must be that are to make the 
frames of bicycles and tricycles. A report in one of the 
