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bamboo as serving; such varied uses as pulp for paper, masts 

 for vessels, pipes for \vat(M- and timber for buildinfrs? Says 

 JNIr. David Faiieliild, in eliarge of the plant introduction woik 

 for the Bureau of Plant Industry: "... there is no plant 

 in the world which is ])ut to so many uses as the bamboo, and 



Thk Tung Oil Tree 

 One of the many valuable plant ininiigrants introduced into the 

 United States by the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Courtesy of the Bureau. 



in the regions where it grows it is apparently the most in- 

 dispensable of all plants." Strange as it may seem, the 

 bamboo is not a ti-ee in the ordinary sense of the word, but' 

 a grass, the rings on the stem marking the points of inser- 

 tion of the leaves. 



About twenty years ago Mr. William Tevis of San Fran- 

 cisco bought a specimen of the giant Japanese bamboo from 



