New Plant Introductions, 1916-17. 



Plate XIV. 



Seven-Year Old Clump of Bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides) at the Chico 



Garden. 



This is the great hardy timber bamhoo of Japan. Almost every Japanese farmer has a clump of it 

 where he can get material for various uses about the place. ' The shoots of this species are not 

 edible. Photographed (P15917rS) October 7, 1914. 



