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'camboo with cylindrical solid or nearly solid culms up to 15 feet high, numerous small 

 acutely ascending branches, and dark-green rather large drooping leaves up to 7 in- 

 ches long by 3/4 to 1 inch wide. At Savannah this species spreads slowly, forming an 

 unusually dense growth of attractive appearance. For trial froiri Philadelphia and the 

 Ohio River southward to the Gulf and on the Pacific coast. (Savannah, Ga.) 



77014. BAfylBUSA MULTIPLEX. (Poacsae.) Hedge bamboo. From China . Presented by Ling- 

 nan University, Canton. Variety Chi nese Goddess. A small, graceful, fern-leaved 

 variety of the hedge bamboo, 5 to 10 feet high. It resembles the Stripestem Fernleaf 

 variety (P. I. No. S9289) in foliage characters but differs in being less- stiffly 

 erect, having green culms, and being perhaps slightly more cold resistant. The leaves 

 are extremely small and closely 2-ranked on slender branchlets or tv/igs which curl 

 downward toward the tips in a characteristic manner. The entire plant is plain green. 

 This handsome little bamboo is one of the hardiest of the clump type and at Savannah, 

 Ga. , has withstood temperatures a=; low as 15° F. It is commonly grown as a hedge in 

 southern China and is said to respond admirably to pruning. It is also well suited 

 for growing in individual clumps in the open or for pot culture as a dwarf plant in 

 the moist atmosphere cf the greenhouse. In the dry air and subdued light of living 

 rooms, however, the foliage quickly turns yellow and falls. Propagation is by divi- 

 sion of the clumps into units with one or more stems. For trial outside in the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf regions and in the mildex- part? of the Pacific Coast, and under 

 glass elsewhere. (Chico, Calif., and Savannah, Ga.) 



99289. BAMBUSA MULTIPLEX. Hedge b.nnhoo. presented by Jas. H. Wells, formerly of 

 Baldwin, Florida, who obtained it from C. K. Pleas, Chipley, Fla. Variety Stripe ste m 

 Fernleaf (also knov/n as variety Disticha S tri ata) . An oriental fern-leaved dwarf 

 variety of the hedge bamboo, differing from the variety Chinese Goddess (P. I. No. 

 77014) in that the twigs are more nearly straight, the culms, or stems, more or less 

 pinkish, with slender green strips, and the entire plant more erect in habit. 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 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 is nearly or quite equal in cold hardiness to the 

 variety Chinese Goddess and the cultural requirements are much the same. (Savannah, 

 Ga.) 



110510. BAMBUSA TULDOIDES. Puntingpole bamboo. From China. Presented by Lingnan 

 University, Canton. A handsome thick-walled bamboo probably up to 50 feet high, used 

 in China for a variety of industrial purposes and especially for punting poles. (A 

 form of this species which has long been known in Florida, under the horticultural 

 name Bambusa thcuarsii, is hardy down to 20" F.) Plants furnished in lots of 1 to 3. 

 For trial in the southern parts of Florida and California and on the Texas coast. 

 (Savannah, Ga. ) 



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

 sity, Canton. A cluKp-forming bamboo growing 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 5 faet and the internodes of the culms and branches become swollen in a 

 characteristic manner, to which fact is due the Chinese name Fut t^o chuk (Buddha's 

 belly bamboo) . The plant quickly loses its foliage in the dry atmosphere and de- 

 ficient light of ordinary living rooms. The lanceolate leaves of the dwarfed plants 



