Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — Bamboo Has Fast Growth. [ARTICLE]

Bamboo Has Fast Growth.

The growth of the bamboo is swift In the morning a shoot appears above the ground, and by nightfall the shoot is waist high. On the second day it is as tail as a man. and in less than three weeks the bamboo rods are from 18 to 19 Inches In circumference and tower to a height of do or 70 feet. There is one place In Abbeville, La., where Mclnhenny has grown a grove that towered to 70 feet in 19 days. There Is a variety of bamboo that Is edible, and is highly prized by orientals, who cut off the young shoots and use them for food.