A review from the Foreign Correspondence column of Garden and Forest, written from London by W. Watson, of A. B. Freeman Mitford's book The Bamboo Garden. It traces the recent introduction of hardy bamboos into English gardens, especially at Kew and Batsford, and summarizes the book's chapters and the 45 hardy species it describes. It also comments on Alfred Parsons's illustrations and quotes Mitford's description of his Batsford garden.

A short illustrated article from Garden and Forest describing bamboos, the giant tropical grasses. It discusses the great bamboo of Penang and the Java Gigantochloa at the Peradeniya garden in Ceylon, their rapid growth, the species and genera and their distribution worldwide, and their many uses for food, building, mats, cordage and paper. It closes with remarks on hardy dwarf bamboos for European and American gardens.