308 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
A NEW JoURNAL, Le Bambou, has been established by JEAN HovuzEAU DE 
Lrenare, Ermitage, Mons, Belgium. The English part of the trilingual pros- 
~ pectus contains some interesting information for our readers, and is at the same 
time so amusing in its construction and spelling that we reprint part of it. 
“Our aim is the facility for botanists and lovers of Bamboo of communi- 
cating their studies and desiderata, and exchanging their observations. We 
claim likewise as design to let better know the horticultural value of these plants 
and, giving information on the process of culture and on the places from where 
they kan be obtained, to spread as much as possible their use in parks and gar- 
dens. Each number shall contain: 1™ a technical part, 2¢ a practical part. 
“The technical part for wohm we can rely on the cooperation of distin- 
ghuished botanists wohm names are know from a long time, shall comprise the 
description of new or little known species, with plates, or cuts, the critical exami- 
nation of the nomenclature and synonymy and the bibliography. 
“These studies shall compose an ensemble which will become a vade mecum 
mere to all lovers of Bambusaceae who whish to make serious study. . 
“Briefly, the classification of Bamboo is still on many points scnareiihat 
preienat and the principal -design of the technical part is to cooperate to its 
perfecti 
“We: sail attend with much care to the bibliography: it shall contain not 
only a list as complete as possible and up to the day of all the works relating to 
amboo in any way; but we ask from our readers to insert in our ‘letter box’ 
their demands of books. . . . . 
“We hope that our correspondents will be so good as to communicate the 
tittles of the books on this matter within their knolege. 
“The practical part shall contain such advices of culture our essais, began 
since Ee entitle us to 
e will smarty review hee plants noting the peculiarities distin- 
penta each of them. We will fix the culture, the value, the rational arbori- 
cultural use, the edurance to the inclemency of the weather of each of them. 
“We will offer in our pages the largest hospitality to the discussions our 
subscribers and correspondents could wish to hold out, leaving to them the 
whole responsability of their propositions. 
“Our letter box will allow everyone to ask questions and to send responds to 
offer or to sollicit plants in exchange or to points outs plants they desire to buy. 
In short we will endeavor to become the mediator of all the loevers of Bamboo. 
“We will print “notices not only in french, but in latin, english, german 
italian and esperanto, with the faculty of joigning, as the case may be a trans- 
lation or a summa 
“We wanted that the first number should be entirely of our one penn; not so 
much to definite the way we wish to adopt, but to sustain alone the responsa- 
bility of the beginning and to free from all responsability = Ris coprapnis 
who spontaneously offered their instant collaboration. .. . . 
