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laide An erect, glabrous shrub with alternate, nearly linear leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long, axillary clusters of 2 to 4 small, campanulate, white flowers, followed by 

 slightly succulent fruits about \ inch in diameter. It is native to Queensland, 

 Australia, but these seeds were obtained from a specimen about 14 feet high, growing 

 in Rochester, South Australia. For trial in California a.nd the Gulf region. (Chico., 

 Calif.) 



80415. MY0P0RUM ACUMINATUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. Same as the preceding (No. 80414), except 

 that the seeds were collected frc a a shrub 9 feet high with fruits £- inch in diameter, 

 growing in Pekina, South Australia. (Chico, Calif.) 



30416. MY0P0RUM ACUMINATUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM. Same as No. 80414, except that the seeds 

 were collected from a shrub about 9 feet high growing in Port Germain, South Australia, 

 and the fruits are i-inch in diameter. (Chico, Calif.) 



64192. MY0P0RUM INSULARE. From Morocco, Africa. Collected by David Fairchild, 

 agricultural explorer. The principal hedge plant and windbreak of the Moroccan coast. 

 It stands clipping well, grows easily from cuttings, is an evergreen of a pleasing 

 dark-green color, will stand a few degrees of frost and makes a dense windbreak. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



42659. PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES CASTILLONI . Castillon bamboo. From Yokohama, 

 Japan. An ornamental variety of the hardy giant timber bamboo, having brilliant- 

 yellow culms, or canes, with bright-green stripes on the grooved or flattened sides 

 of the internodes. The leaves occasionally have hair-line stripes of white. The 

 variety is smaller than the type, reaching a height, under favorable conditions, of 

 about 40 feet after 10 or 12 years. It withstands temperatures down nearly to zero 

 with little injury to the leaves. Like the timber bamboo, it has vigorous, running 

 rhizomes (underground stems) which spread rapidly in the ground in all directions 

 and from which, at intervals, new culms rise. A thicket is thus formed, which eventu- 

 ally becomes a sort of forest as culms of large size are produced. The culms may be 

 cut for use after the end of their third season, when they have reached maximum 

 hardness. They may live for 6 to 10 years but, if crowded, the older ones should be 

 cut earlier. According to size, they are useful for fishing poles, clothes poles, 

 plant stakes and many other purposes. The Castillon bamboo can not be grown to full 

 size in an area less than 50 or 60 feet square. Depending upon the kind of soil, 

 the rhizomes travel at depths of 2 to 3 feet and if a grove is to be kept within 

 defined limits a permanent barrier must be sunk into the ground. Otherwise, it will 

 be necessary to break or cut the new culms each season as they appear beyond the 

 limits set. Not less than 15 plants (shipping weight about 20 lbs) will be sent to 

 an experimenter. These are for planting in one area to start a grove. The first 

 season, however, the plants should be grown 1£ to 2 feet apart in a nursery row, in 

 well - fertilized soil , and be f reely watered in dry weathe r. In the late winter or 

 early spring of the second year they should be transplanted with a ball of earth to 

 the permanent situation on good well-drained land, spaced 12 feet apart each way. 

 Well-rotted manure or a good commercial fertilizer should be placed in the hole. 

 For trial in California and in all except the warmest parts of the southern states. 

 (Savannah, Ga.) 



75155. PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES CASTILLONI. Same as preceding (No. 42659) but pre- 

 sented by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. (Savannah, Ga.) 



