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year or two, while the rounded parts are green. Grows to full size only in grove 

 form, in an area at least 30 feet across, and after several years. Culms useful for 

 plant stakes, fishing poles, etc. This bamboo has been previously sent out under the 

 name Phyllostachys nevinii but is now found to be of another, apparently undescribed, 

 species. Its climatic and cultural requirements are the same as for P. b ambusoid es 

 except that planting distance in grove is 8 to 10 feet apart. Plants furnished only 

 in lots of 15 or more. For trial in the milder parts of the South, except southern 

 Florida, and on the Pacific coast. (Chico, Calif., and Savannah, Ga.) 



11676S. PHYLLOSTACHYS SP . Bamboo. From China. Collected by F. N. Meyer, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. (Formerly sent out under P. I. No. 23234.) A hardy running bamboo, 

 to 20 feet high, with dense foliage. It resembles Phyllo stac hys aurea but there is 

 never any crowding of the lower internodes of the culm as in that species. The 

 conditions under which plants will be furnished to experimenters, and the cultural 

 requirements and uses of culms, are about the same as for P. I. No. 55713. (Chico, 

 Calif., and Savannah, Ga.) 



8S7C9. PLEIOBLASTUS CHINO . Bamboo. Obtained from V. N. Gauntlett & Co., Chidding- 

 fold, England. La^deker. A dwarf hardy bamboo of running habit, 2^ to 3 feet high. 

 The slender culms, usually without branches the first year, bear 10 to 12 lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate dark-green leaves and in the second year the branches bear 5 or 

 6 leaves, mostly toward the tips. The leaves are 2 to 5 inches long, the longer and 

 more slender ones being near the tips, and they are sometimes irregularly mottled 

 v/ith pale green or dull yellov/. This bamboo is not very attractive but because of 

 its vigor may be useful as a ground cover where more desirable plants do not thrive. 

 It should be watched for possible development of a weedy habit. Plants will be fur- 

 nished in lots of 5 or more. For trial in the middle and upper South and on the 

 Pacific coast. (Savannah, Ga.) 



52673. PLEIOBLASTUS PUMILUS (Sasa pumila) . Bamboo. Presented by Vilmorin, Andrieux 

 & Co., Paris, France. A dwarf hardy running bamboo, native to Japan, often growing 

 nly 6 to 10 inches high in warm localities but up to 2 feet in partial shade or in 

 cooler regions. The narrov/ lanceolate leaves If to 3^ inches long are borne 8 to 10 

 i n number, near the tips of the culms and branches. The plant thrives in fairly moist 

 soil and in suitable situations is useful as a ground cover. In drier locations the 

 leaves tend to curl in hot dry weather. Because of its small size, grasslike leaves, 

 and rampant underground rhizomes, the plant becomes a weed and is difficult to eradi- 

 cate when it escapes. In proximity to a garden it is especially important to curb it. 

 Plants furnished in lots of 5 or 10. Young plants require frequent watering. For 

 trial in the middle and upper South and the milder parts of the Northern States. 

 (Savannah, Ga.) 



75166. PLEIOBLASTUS PUMILUS. (Sasa pumila). Bamboo. Presented by the Director, 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. This form of the species differs from the pre- 

 ceding (P. I. No. 52673) in having nearly twice the number of leaves which often are 



a little wider and more crowded on the culms and branches. (Chico, Calif.) 



75165. PSEUDOSASA JAPONICA (Sasa japonica). Arrow bamboo. Presented by the Direc- 

 tor, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. A hardy ornamental Japanese bamboo of 

 running habit, 6 to 16 feet high, with branches arising singly from the internodes 

 of the culms. The dark-green lanceolate leaves are 5 to 12 inches long and remain 



