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100632. VIMINARIA DENUDATA. (Fabaceae.) Rush-broom. From Australia. Presented 

 by Edwin Ashby, "VVittunga," Blackwood, South Australia. An Australian shrub with 

 rushlike .■stems up to 20 feet high, long wiry pendulous branches, leaves reduced to 

 filiform petioles 6 to 9 inches long, and terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers. 

 (Supply very limited,) For trial in the warmest parts of the Southwest. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



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For the convenience of Experimenters, the bamboos of which plants are available 

 are listed all together here. The shipping weight ranges usually from 1 to 2 pounds 

 per plant. Bamboos in general require a moderately moist but well-drained soil, of 

 good fertility. Attention of experimenters is directed to the fact that small ba mboo 

 2isni§' sven more than most other plants, require frequent watering until w:.ll 

 established; this means for at least 2 or 3 months after planting. 



93573. BAMBUSA LONGISPICULATA. (Poaceae.) From India. Presented by R. N. Parker, 

 Forest Botanist, Forest Research Institute and College, Dehra Dun, United Provinces. 

 A tropical clump bamboo growing to 50 feet high, with 10 to 12 leaves up to 9 inches 

 long, on a brnnchlet. For trial in the warmer parts of southern Florida and southern 

 California. (Savannah, Ga.) 



99289. BAMBUSA MULTIPLEX.* Hedge bamboo. Presented by .Jas. H. Wells, formerly of 

 Baldwin. Fla., who obtained it from C. E. Pleas, Chipley, Fla. Variety Disticha 

 striata. An oriental fern-leaved dwarf variety of the hedge bamboo in which the 

 culms, or stem.s, are more or less pinkish, v/ith slender green stripes. The varietal 

 characteristics are somewhat unstable, however, and if small plants are grown in rich 

 soil in the open there is a tendency to revert to the larger parent form; the striping 

 of the culm then disappears and the foliage changes from the fern-leaf type. In its 

 dwarf phase the plant grows about 6 feet high but in the reverted form it attains 15 

 feet or more. It endures temperatures down to about 16° F. v/ith little or no injury 

 to the foliage. 



77013. BAMBUSA VENTRICOSA . * Buddha bamboo. From China. Presented by Lingnan Uni- 

 versity, Canton. A clump-forming bamboo growing up to about 25 feet high in the open 

 but commonly grown by the Chinese as a pot or tub plant. Under this culture it is 

 dwarfed to about 3 feet and the internodes of the culms and branches become swollen 

 in a characteristic manner, to which fact is due the Chinese name Fut_tj^_chuk 

 (Buddha's belly bamboo). The plant quickly loses its foliage in the dry atmosphere 

 and deficient light of ordinary living rooms. The lanceolate leaves of the dwarfed 

 plants are 1 to 4 inches long but on larger plants in the open the leaves are nearly 

 twice as long. As grown in the open this bamboo is reported to have v/ithstood tem- 

 peratures down to about 20° F. with little or no injury. For trial outside in the 

 milder parts of California and the Gul.f region and elsewhere under glass. (Savannah, 

 Ga.) 



