ON THE ECONOMIC USES OF BAMBOOS. 
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The prices which M. Garrigues’ canes command in commerce 
are as follows :— 
Bundles of bamboos in the rough, for 
whip handles, without roots 
francs cts. 
50-00 
per hundred. 
Do. prepared for whip handles, with 
roots. 
18-00 
a dozen. 
Bundles of bamboo whips, with roots 
60-00 
a dozen. 
Do. do. without do. 
48-00 
a dozen. 
Fishing rods, with the terminal point 
0-050 
per metre. 
Tops for fishing rods, according to 
the length. 
80-50 
per hundred. 
Bundles of bamboos, for umbrella 
work, in the rough. 
10 
per hundred. 
Bundles of bamboos, for umbrella 
work, prepared . 
30 
per hundred. 
Bundles of bamboos with roots, 
prepared . 
100 
per hundred. 
Alpenstocks, without roots. 
18 
a dozen. 
Do. with roots 
24 
a dozen. 
Ox-goads, mounted with spring prick 
12-15 
a dozen. 
Long sticks, for removing caterpillars 
from trees ... ... . 
0-25 
per metre. 
Extinguishers for churches 
0-25 
per metre. 
Do. do. gas burners 
0-30 
per metre. 
Corner sticks, for rooms and frames 
0-25 
per metre. 
Goblets and cups . 
3-00 
a dozen. 
Napkin rings. 
1-50 
a dozen. 
Egg-cups . 
1-50 
a dozen. 
Paper cutters. 
3-00 
a dozen. 
Shoe-horns ... . 
3-00 
a dozen. 
Tobacco-pipes of bamboo roots 
3 to 10 
fr. each. 
Paper made of sheaths and leaves of 
bamboos . 
no price given. 
Ink-horns . 
3-00 
a dozen. 
Penholders, in the rough . 
2-00 
a hundred. 
Bamboo sheaths, for paper making... 
no price given. 
Canes called “ Java,” made of Bhizomes \ 
Canes called “ queues de mulet,” mules’ p rices varying from two 
tails, made ol those underground r to fiye guineas eacht 
rhizomes which are continued above 
ground as oblique culms . ' 
Such were the prices realised by this French industry twenty 
years ago. The great development of steam communication 
may have made great changes since then. I have made every 
attempt to get furthur and more accurate information, but for 
some reason best known to themselves the French will not give 
