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BAMBOOS. 
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 well- 
drained soil, of good fertility. Attention of experimenters is directed to the 
fact that small bamboo plants, even more than most other plants, require frequent 
watering until well established; this means for at least 2 or 3 months after 
planting. 
66781. ARUNDINARIA LONGIAURITA. (Poaceae.) Bamboo. From China. Collected 
near Tsehaang, Lungtau Mountains, by F, A. McClure, Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Chinese name Tip mo chuk. A wild bamboo 3 to le feet high found growing ina 
dense brake on the sandy flood plain of a little stream. The rough slender 
culms, 1/4 to 5/8 inch in diameter, are tough and have very long internodes with 
very small cavities. The taller culms usually bear branches only on the upper 
part and should be especially useful for small plant stakes; the branches are 
tufted, very upright, and stiff; leaves broadly lanceolate, 5 to 10 inches long 
and 7/8 to 1 7/8 inches wide. (Savannah, Ga.) 
75149, AHUNDINARIA NAGASHIMA, Bamboo. Presented by the Director, Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, England. A small hardy running bamboo, ultimately producing culms 
about 21/2 feet high, often with branches from the upper nodes and with lanceo- 
late to oblong-lanceolate leaves 2 to 6 inches long. It is native to Japan. 
Theeplant is evergreen at temperatures down to about 5° F. and is attractive for 
mass planting as a ground cover, either in full sun or partial shade. On account 
of the hardiness and vigor of the underground parts of the plant, it may become 
weedy if the rhizomes are not prevented from spreading beyond the desired limit 
by a deep barrier of some sort. The small plants as received should be grown the 
first year in a nursery row and be freely watered, especially during the first 
two months. Early the next spring they may be transplanted, with a ball of of earth, 
to the permanent situation, in good well-drained land; well-rotted manure or a 
good commercial fertilizer should be placed in the hole. Plants furnished in lots 
of 3 to 10. For trial in the middle and upper South and the mildest parts of the: 
Northern States. (Savannah, Ga.) 
76648, ARUNDINARIA SP, Bamboo. From China. Collected about 3 miles southwest 
of Yunghui, Kwengsai, by F. A. McClure, Bureau of Plant Industry. Chinese name 
Man lei chuk. A very straight, rather smooth-jointed bamboo with stiff upright 
branches in fascicles at the nodes and thick leaves 5 to 10 inches long and 1/2: 
to 1 1/2 inches wide. In good soil the culms grow 16 to 20 feet high and 5/8 to 
1 inch in diameter; the walls are of medium thickness. The smallest sulms, 6 to 
10 feet long, are used to make Chinese pens, and the larger ones for clothes-—dry-— 
ing and mosquito-net poles. The young shoots are edible. Unlike most bamboos of 
the running type, the rhizomes of this one seem not to have a bud at every node, 
but only at infrequent intervals. Also there is a tendency of the culms to send 
up other culms from the base, after the fashion of bamboo of the clump type. 
For trial throughout the South and on the Pacific coast. (Savannah, Ga.) 

