ON THE ECONOMIC USES OF BAMBOOS. 



28a 



I am afraid that in thus briefly discussing this branch of the 

 subject which I have brought before you, I have had very little 

 information to convey. All I can say is that it has not been 

 for the want of trying that I have failed. I must console myself 

 with the saying that " in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed 

 man is king." If the fare be meagre, it is the best that I can 

 offer. At any rate, admiring and loving the Bamboo as I do, 

 I hope that the exhibits which you have seen here to-day may 

 send some of you home to your gardens having caught the 

 infection of enthusiasm for their beauty, and perhaps giving 

 practical expression to the Chinese poet's saying, " How can I 

 exist for a single day without this gentleman ? " 



List of the Hardy Bamboos shown by A. B. Freeman 

 Mitford, Esq., C.B., to illustrate the above paper, and for which 

 a Gold Medal was awarded by the Council : — 



1. Arundinaria anceps (Mitford). Origin uncertain. 



2. Arundinaria aristata (Gamble). North-Eastern Himalaya. 



3. Arundinaria auricoma (Mitford). Japan. 



syn. A. Fortunei var. aurea (Hort.). 



Bambusa Fortunei var. aurea (Hort.). 

 B. Maximowiczii (Hort., in part). 



4. Arundinaria chrysantha (Mitford). Japan. 



syn. Bambusa chrysantha (Hort.). 



5. Arundinaria Falconeri (Mitford). Himalaya. 



syn. Thamnocalamus Falconeri (Hook. F.). 

 G. Arundinaria falcata (Nees). Himalaya. 

 syn. Bambusa falcata (Hort.). 

 B. gracilis (Hort., in part). 



7. Arundinaria Fortunei (A. and C. Riviere). Japan. 



syn. B. Fortunei (Van Houtte). 



B. Fortunei variegata (Hort., in part). 



8. Arundinaria Hindsii (Munro). Japan. 



syn. Bambusa erecta (Hort.). 

 B. gracilis (Hort.). 

 0. Arundinaria Hindsii var. graminea. Bean. 



syn. Bambusa graminea (Hort.). 

 10. Arundinaria humilis (Mitford). Japan. 



syn. Arundinaria Fortunei viridis (Hort.). 

 Bambusa gracilis (Hort., in part). 



