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House, a new garden has been made for them in the wood near the 
Rilodeidron Dell. This garden is in the form of a shallow depression 
with sloping banks 12 feet wide anda contea! par shaped bed 125 feet 
by 75 feet. To make it, the surface soil o be removed and the 
gravel taken out to a depth of about 3 feet. d po quantity of new 
soil and manure was added so that the bamboos have now a good depth 
of rich soil. are new paths leading to the Bamboo Garden have been 
made, one from the Syon vista and the other from the Stafford walk. 
The bamboos panied in the garden are :—Arundinaria Fortunei (Bam- 
busa Fortunei), A. japonica (Bambusa Metake), aar albo-striata, 
B. gracilis, B. nana (Hort), B. palmata, B. plicata, B. pumila, B. 
tessellata, B. Veitchii, Phyllostachys diis . "Ud, d. 
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grown in the open air at Kew 

