Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . May 20, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 205. 206 Garden and Forest. [Number 430. before the trees are 90 or 100 years it would not pay tocut them, and then 100,000 feet, not of common box-boardsbut of good lumber, may well be expected. Forestry Division, Washington, D. C. -• £-• t1 eniOW. Foreign Correspondence. Bamboos in English Gardens. DURING the last six or eight years considerable atten-tion has been given by certain English and Frenchhorticulturists to the Bamboos that are sufficiently hardy tobe cultivated out-of-door
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . May 20, 1896.] Garden and Forest. 205. 206 Garden and Forest. [Number 430. before the trees are 90 or 100 years it would not pay tocut them, and then 100,000 feet, not of common box-boardsbut of good lumber, may well be expected. Forestry Division, Washington, D. C. -• £-• t1 eniOW. Foreign Correspondence. Bamboos in English Gardens. DURING the last six or eight years considerable atten-tion has been given by certain English and Frenchhorticulturists to the Bamboos that are sufficiently hardy tobe cultivated out-of-doors in the warmer parts of the king-dom. Previous to this period Bamboos were practicallyunknown as ornamental plants for the garden, the onlyspecies grown generally being the plant then known asBambusa Metake, while Arundinaria Falconeri, often erro-neously called A. falcata, was cultivated in a few gardenswhere the conditions were exceptionally favorable. In1866, Colonel Munro prepared a monograph of Bambusacece,and in his introductory remarks he stated that a large num-ber of Bamboos are now in cultiva
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