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in all their native beauty nothing can be more miserable in 

 aspect. On cold bad soils and exposed dry places in the 

 British Isles^ these bamboos have little chance ; but^ on the 

 other hand;, they will be found to make most graceful 

 objects in many a sheltered nook in the south and south- 



FiG. 78. 



Bambusa aurea. 



western parts of England and Ireland. Nowadays there is 

 a growing taste for something else than mere colour in the 

 flower garden_, and these will in many cases be found a 

 graceful help. We have some knowledge of the capabilities 

 of one kind in this country. In a well sheltered moist 



