42 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. 
To one or other of these three groups of the sub-section 
Arundinariz it is probable that almost, if not quite, all of 
the hardy Bamboos must be referred, though Munro classes 
some of them with which he was imperfectly acquainted, not 
having seen the flowers, as Bambusez veree. Where a doubt 
exists as to the classification of a species it is perhaps better 
to preserve the familiar style Bambusa, it being clearly under- 
stood that this is done without prejudice, and does not imply 
a declaration of faith that the plant so named belongs to the 
Bambusez verze of science. 
For gardening purposes the Bamboos have been separated 
into two divisions :— 
1. Those which in their own country come into growth 
in the summer. . 
2. Those which show their shoots in the spring. 
With the former division we have nothing todo. They 
are aliens that cannot support themselves, and there is no 
home for them in England. The latter, on the contrary, 
we may receive with open arms and gladly adopt as most 
useful, naturalised subjects. It must be obvious that plants 
which renew their life so late in the year that it needs the 
full power of a scorching climate to enable them to ripen 
their wood, must starve under the feeble and uncertain rays 
of our sun. Those, on the other hand, which in their own 
home begin to grow in spring, though some of them are later 
here, can mature their new shoots in time for them to ripen 
before winter. 
On the 8th of April 1894 I found shoots from 6 inches to 1 
foot long on plants of Phyllostachys aurea, viridi-glaucescens, 
Henonis, nigra, and nigro-punctata; they proved, however, 
