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* 75149. ARUNDINARIA NAGASHIMA. (Poaceae.) Bamboo. Presented by the Director, Royal 



Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. A small hardy running bamboo, ultimately producing 

 culms about 1\ feet high, often with branches from the upper nodes and with lanceolate 

 \ to oblong-lanceolate leaves 2 to 6 inches long. It is native to Japan. The plant 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 

 f reely watered , especially during the first two months . Early the next spring they may 

 be transplanted, with a ball of earth, to the permanent situation, in good well-drained 



i 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. (Chico, Calif.) 



77014. BAMBUSA MULTIPLEX.* (Poaceae.) Hedge Bamboo. From China. Presented by 

 Lignan University, Canton. Chinese name Koon yam chuk (goddess-of-mercy bamboo). 

 A small, graceful, fern-leaved bamboo 5 to 10 feet high, of clump type, considered to 

 be a variety of the above species. The leaves are extremely small and closely 2- 

 ranked, on slender branchlets or twigs 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 with-stood temper- 

 atures as 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 in the moist atmosphere of the greenhouse. 

 In the dry air and subdued light of living rooms, however, the foliage quickly turns 

 yellow and falls. For trial outside in the South Atlantic and Gulf regions and in the 

 milder parts of the Pacific coast, and under glass elsewhere. (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 Di sticha . 

 An oriental fern-leaved dwarf variety of the hedge bamboo, differing from the pre- 

 ceding (P. I. No. 77014) in that the twigs are more nearly straight, the culmns, or 

 stems, more or less pinkish, with slender green stripes, 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 hardiness 

 to the variety under P. I. No. 77014, and the cultural requirements are much the same. 

 (Savannah, Ga.) 



74413. BAMBUSA TULDA. Bamboo. From India. Presented by R. N. Parker, Forest Re- 

 search Institute, Dehra Dun, United Provinces. A tropical and subtropical clump- form- 

 ing bamboo producing thick-walled culms up to 70 feet high. It withstands temperatures 

 down to about 26° F., but below this it is seriously injured or killed. The culms 

 are used in India for a variety of industrial purposes. For trial in southern Florida 

 and in the warmest localities of the Texas coast and southern California. (Savannah, 

 Ga.) 



