Word: bamboos
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...many a week Japanese, harassed by a succession of Government crises and staggering under the biggest military budget in their history, had looked forward to April 14. That day, Japan's leading soothsayers had declared, would be the luckiest in Japan's year. The nation's bamboo-stick-shufflers, temple oracles and stargazers all agreed on this point...
With reference to the letter written to you by Hon. D. C. Marshall of Forty Fort, Pa. (TIME, Feb. 1) in regard to the bamboo shoots required for the diet of Su-lin, the giant panda, I noticed that he states the northernmost point he has seen the plant growing is just outside Jacksonville...
...which reminds me that some few years ago my brother Clem got ahold of a small piece of bamboo root and made the tragic mistake of planting it in the back yard of our home in Tifton...
Which is to advise that the bamboo shoots not only started coming up. but that within a year or so the whole neighborhood was endangered by this very prolific plant. So bad did it begin to spread that we had to devise a very elaborate system of trenches around the area to keep it in bounds. Even that is not 100% efficient, and it just struck me if we could get ahold of that panda thing our problem might be solved...
There has probably been too much said all ready about the panda and I do not know anything more about them, but I do know about bamboo growing in America and thought you might be interested to know that I am growing three kinds here and one of them is over 30 ft. high. They are, Bambusa aurca, yellow canes; Bambusa argenteostriata grows 30 ft.; Bambusa Metake, hardiest bamboo...