Quoted from A Yankee on the Yangtze.  William Edgar Geil. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1904.  In Yangtze Patrol. Kemp Tolley. Annapollis: U.S. Naval Institute Press. 1971. page 268. Source: http://www.ces.uga.edu/agriculture/horticulture/GrowingBamboo.htm Original source: http://www.geocities.com:0080/Vienna/5048/bamboo.html