
          12180. PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDE5. Bamboo. From Japan. Received 
from the Yokohama Nursery Company. (See S.P.I. No. 24760).

23234. PHYLLOSTACHYS NEVINII HUPEHENSIS. Bamboo. From Chekiang, 
China. Collected by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. The horticultural differences between this bamboo and S.P.I. No. 55713 are so 
slight as to be scarcely distinguishable. The plants were originally 
introduced under separate inventory numbers and for convenience of 
record are kept separate. A sturdy grower, sending up stems or culms at 
the end of ten or twelve years to a height of 12 to 14 feet. It should 
be handled and may be utilized as described for Nos. 55713 and 23261.

23261. PHYLLOSTACHYS sp. Bamboo. From Fengtai, Chihli, China. Collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A rapid growing and 
aggressive bamboo much like S.P.I. No. 55713. It is one of the earliest 
bamboos to start in the spring, but, notwithstanding this fact, it seems 
able to resist considerable cold. With little protection, it can be 
grown as far north as Washington, D. C. Its economic uses are the same 
as for S.P.I. No. 55713. The plant likes company, and isolated specimens 
develop slowly, so that it is best whenever practicable to set 
ten or more plants together, in order to induce thicketlike groves.

55713. PHYLLOSTACHYS sp. Bamboo. From Chekiang, China. Collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A medium-sized, rather slow-
growing bamboo which does not have such precise soil requirements as do 
some of the larger types. Plantings ten to twelve years old on rather 
poor soil at Brooksville, Florida, are now twelve to fifteen feet in 
height. The culms or stems are straight, hard, wiry, and, when fully 
matured and ripened, are of a greenish yellow color. The type begins 
to develop fair-sized canes when five or six years old; these will be 
found useful for many purposes, including plant stakes, bean poles, 
trellises, etc. This bamboo thrives best when allowed to form thickets 
or clumps. It withstands considerable frost and is well adapted to the 
region along the Atlantic Coast, from Washington southward and westward 
in the Gulf Coast States. It is also worthy of trial in the irrigated 
sections of California.

45914. PINUS ARMANDI. Pine. From the Island of Taiwan, Japan. Presented 
by G. Takata, director, Department of Productive Industries, 
Taiwan. This tree with its straight trunk 90 feet tall is remarkable 
for producing very large cones which bear large edible seeds.

56333. PINUS ARMANDI. Pine. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. 
F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer. Common at altitudes above 8,000 feet 
in the northern part of Yunnan.

21970. PISTACIA CHINENSIS. Chinese Pistache. From Shantung, China. 
Collected by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A very fine ornamental 
tree suited to the mild-wintered regions of the Southwest. 
It is long-lived and adapted to avenue planting. Its handsome pinnate 
foliage, which turns red in autumn, resembles sumach and Sophora. The 
seeds yield an oil used for cooking. The very hard wood is free from 
insect attacks and is employed in furniture making. It is said that

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