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vigorous species, which has grown very freely for some 

 years past in the neighbourhood of Paris. The stems 

 are numerous and grow as much as 10 ft. high in a sea- 

 son. They are mealy-glaucous at the joints, and the 

 branchlets are numerous and rather closely crowded. The 

 leaves are narrow, sometimes nearly a foot long, and are 

 occasionally striped with white. This species, which was 

 obtained from China some years since, has thriven very 

 well in the gardens at Paris, where M. Carriere first drew 

 my attention to it. From what I have seen it do there I 

 have no doubt it will prove of great value in the milder 

 southern parts of England and Ireland. 



*Bambusa violascens. A hardy and vigorous kind, 

 intermediate between B. nigra and B. viridi-glaucescens, 

 most resembling the last-mentioned however. It has 

 blackish-violet much-branched steins, which assume a 

 yellow tinge with age. The leaves are green above, 

 bluish-grey beneath, with an elongated ligule surrounded 

 by a bundle of black hairs. Native of China. 



*Bambusa viridi-glaucescens. A species from 

 Northern China, which has been proved very hardy and 

 free in the Paris gardens, and will, probably, in warm 

 parts of our islands, make a more vigorous growth and 

 prove a more beautiful object than any other kind. The 

 stems, of a light-yellowish-green, grow from 7 ft. to 1 2 ft. 

 high, branching from the base, each branch again branch- 

 ing very much. The leaves are very numerous, espe- 

 cially at the ends of the branches, of a pale-green, bluish 

 underneath, sheathing the stem for a considerable length. 

 It forms a fine object when planted as isolated specimens 

 in sheltered warm glades in the pleasure-ground, or in 



