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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
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Photo by P. H. Dorsett 
THE TEVIS BAMBOO GROVE OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA 
This is the first grove of any size to be established in America. Mr. William Tevis, of 
San Francisco, the owner, bought a single plant of the “Giant Japanese Bamboo” from a 
Japanese nurseryman in San Francisco about twelve years ago, and from this single plant 
has grown a grove which is so strikingly beautiful that those who have seen it declare it to 
be one of the most fascinating things in the country. The graceful, plume-like stems rise 
over fifty feet in the air, and cast an enchanting shade on the carpet of brown dead leaves 
below. 
