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many of the plants at present used for such positions must be evident 
to anyone acquainted with the extraordinary elegance and grace ofa 
well-grown Bamboo. 
e Kew collection comprises over 50 named sorts, a few of which 
are topical, whilst the bulk of them are either quite “hardy or require 
only the temperate conditions supplied by the winter garden. 
he names of Bamboos are as confusing as are those of garden palms. 
n one as in the other it is only very rarely that the plants flower under 
cultivation, so that many of the names, which are given by nursery- 
men, can only be problematical. For garden purposes this pU not 
be of much consequence, the difficulty arising Mesi when growers do 
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matter how different m ay be the conditions in which they happen to 
be placed. I was told that all the See of Thamnocalamus Faiconert 
(Bambusa gracilis) of the Riviera flowered and died last year. 
Numerous seedlings have since sprung up about the old stools, but the 
latter certainly all perished. This proved to be the case with a plant 
of Arundinaria falcata, which flowered at Kew in 1886. 
The following are the kinds noted. The names in brackets are what 
I consider to be the correct names, according to Munro, 
B. aurea, Sieb.—A Japanese species, now well known in gardens. 
It was in eultivation at Kew in 1866, ue is here still. It is one of the 
When ripe the stems are of a rich greenish-yellow colour. The leaves 
are ient with a distinct petiole. 
B. gigantea (Dendrocalamus giganteus, Munro).— The largest of all the 
Bamboos. The e specimen in the Palm House at Kew produces stems 40 feet 
long and 12 inches in circumference, but wild plants have stems as 
much as 26 inches round. In the garden at Villa Valetta, Cannes, 
-there is a very fine mass with ee 90 feet high and 4 inches in 
diameter. It is a native of India 
B. gracilis. (Thamnocalamus Falconeri, Hook. f.).--A slender and 
from the Himalayas, It is not uncommon 
ardens as it makes an elegant pot plant. It was plentiful on the 
gins 
B Mazelii, Hort.—A fine mass at Hyéres and — The stems 
are 25 feet high, bright yellow when mature, the nodes prominent and 
ose together at the base, the branches loose, and the leaves short and 
twisted on the petiole. It looked suspiciously like B. aurea. 
. B. Metake (Arundinaria japonica, Sieb. $ Zucc.).—Much used on 
the Rivi where it is as ornamental as it iind is in England. It 
is = — when grown near water, although it grows well in 
