890 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
Photo by P. H. Dorsett 
THE FIRST GOVERNMENT GROVE OF TIMBER AND EDIBLE BAMBOO, ESTABLISHED IN 
=. A CLEARING ON THE RICH LANDS OF NORTHERN FLORIDA 
__In the Orient the commercial groves of bamboo stretch for miles along the streams, and, 
aside from the fact that they are lucrative investments, they form the most enchantingly 
beautiful landscape effects. It is with the object of creating a sufficiently large grove ot 
these plants for the commercially inventive minds of Americans to work upon that this 
planting at Brooksville, Florida, has been made. 
Photo by P. H. Dorsett 
A BAMBOO WINDBREAK AT THE PLANT-INTRODUCTION GARDEN AT BROWNSVILLE, 
TEXAS 
Protection from the northers is afforded in south Texas by any dense, bushy growth, 
but it has been difficult to find the right plant to form such a growth. Such a plant has been 
discovered in a drought-resistant species of bamboo from Bengal. This forms an impene- 
trable hedge, and makes it possible to grow certain plants which need protection from the 
cold, drying winds of winter. 
