DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULS. 1326-1350 



Department Bulletin No. 1329. — Bamboos: Their Culture and 

 Uses in the United States: 



Introduction 



Botany of the bamboos 



Cultural types 



Giant timber bamboo 



Stake and forage-crop bamboo 



Dwarf hardy bamboo 



Hairy sheath edible bamboo : 



Smooth-sheath edible bamboo 



Variegated Phyllostachys 



Calcutta fish-rod bamboo 



Naked-culm clump bamboo 



Available and prospective types 



Uses of bamboo 



Farm-home groves 



Bamboos and poultry 



Bamboos and rural school grounds 



Windbreaks, hedges, and screens ' 



Bamboos as forage and grazing crops 



Bamboos for edible purposes 



Commercial uses 



Bamboos for timber 



Bamboos as paper-making material 



Minor uses 



Propagation and culture 



Bamboos as ornamentals 



Bamboo diseases 



Bamboo smut 



Bamboo rust 



Melanconium culm disease 



Bamboo insects 



Bamboo scale 



Aster olecanium miliaris longum 



Cottony bamboo scale 



Leucaspis bambusae 



Long-tailed mealybug 



Bamboo plant louse 



Bamboo mite 



Prionid root borer 



Japanese sheath mite : 



Literature cited 



Department Bulletin No. 1330. — Abbreviations Employed in 

 Experiment Station Record for Titles op Periodicals: 



Abbreviations for titles 



Abbreviations for single words 



Department Bulletin No. 1331. — The Madonna Lily: 



History 



Varieties 



Sources of planting stocks 



Propagation 



Making a seed crop :_ 



Soils . 



Soils that heave should be avoided 



Planting 



Cultivation 



Digging 



Handling the bulbs 



Where the lily may be grown 



Climatic advantages 



The bulbs after forcing 



Commercial sizes 



Packing and shipping 



Transplanting easy 



Methods of culture applicable to the Nankeen lily 



