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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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f this group were commenced in theBotanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, Java, many years ago,but owint; to the difficulties experienced in procuringthe different species of Bamboos growing in BritishIndia, and owing to his desire of studying them all inNature instead of from dried specimens only, he hasthought it necessary for the present to treat only ofthe Bamboos of those countries of which he had thebest material at hand, and these are chiefly the being raised as they are above the ground. They areusually built for a single family only, but the Dyaksof Borneo, like the Naga hill people and other tribesof the eastern frontier o( Bengal and the Karens ofBurmah, build large communal houses often 200 to300 feet long by 50 to 100 feet broad. These aredivided into as many compartments as there are families,which often amount to 100. Mr. Kurz says :— Ihave often seen tays (this is the name by which thecommunal Karen-houses, or rather villages, areknown) which were raised as much as 30 feet from
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Fig. 32. — DENDKORIUM AINSWORTIIH. luch strong roots. This stock is not generally so muchsought after as it deserves to be. E, W. BAMBOO AND ITS USES*. The simple words which constitute the title of thispamphlet form a sufficient foundation upon whichmight be built a book of much greater extent, andyet Mr. Kurz has managed to say a very great deal,and perhaps all that was necessary to say, on a group Bamboo anditi Uiii. By Sulpiz Kurz, Curator, BotanicalGardens, Calcutta. Calcutta ; Central Press Company. Bamboos ot the Malayan countries, of which a veryfine living collection exists in the botanical gardensof Java. Under the head of ** Uses of the Bamboo Gene-rally we find a great deal of valuable information,not only the records of the authors own experience,but facts gathered from the writings of other travellers,which the author fully acknowledges. Though theBamboo is used for almost every purpose in domesticuse, its value as a building material is one of the mostimportant. House

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