. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . the hardier types of bamboos, 1-30.) A. Intemodes not flattened: sheaths Lvs. relatively ver
. The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists . the hardier types of bamboos, 1-30.) A. Intemodes not flattened: sheaths Lvs. relatively very broad, usually 2 in. wide, or more. 1. A. Veitchii, N. E. Br. (Bambusa Veitchii, Carr.).Fig. 487. Height usually 3 ft. or less: sts. purple, white-waxy below the nodes: lvs. .5-8 in. long, about 2 in. wide,bright green above, below pale and minutely pubes-cent, serrate. Japan. M. 77, but not III. 15:169,or 23, p. 270, which are pictures of B. palmata, asexplained in III. 15:209.—This is also hable toconfusion with B. Ies,^ellata, but may be separated byIf. characters. Quite hardy, but the edges of the in late autumn, giving a variegated but injuredappearance. 2. B. palmata, Burbidge. Fig. 488. Height 2-5 ft.:lvs. 10-15 in. long, 2-33^ in. wide, bright green, serrate,smooth and shin-ing above, belowpale and min-utely pubescent;longitudinal veinsvery M. 49, p. 59,shows a clump 36ft. in circum.—Abeautiful, broad-Ivd. 456. Bambusa tessellata. ( x rj) 3. B. tessellata, Munro (B. Rag-amowskii, Hort.).Fig. 456. Height3-4 ft.: lvs. 12-18 in. long, 2-4in. wide, smoothand shining above,whitened beneath,sharply serrate;midrib prominentand bearing atomentose hne on one side. China and Japan. :167; 18:189. 23, p. 269.—Produces the largestlvs. of any of the hardy bamboos in cult., which remarkable on account of its dwarf confused in gardens, but unnecessarily, withA. Veitchii, as t
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