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`Jori Bamboo of Chejoo Island, one of the four true gentlemen who are plumblossoms, orchids, chrysanthemums and bamboos, has been selected for the December issue of botanical series. The ladle which is one of our old familiar ustensil for dietary life is being made at present days with various materials. However, in old ages, only the Jori bamboo had been wildly used for making it. Even now a days, we can see women and young girls of long hair in distance country who wash rice skillfully with bamboo ladle and pick out the grits among them in order to make worm boiled-rice to serve it to parents and husband and rest of all the family. In this country, there was a old custom of buying the felicitous bamboo ladle in Janurary in order to pray for the fortune of the year putting into them the rice and money and hanging it in front of the living room door. It is also a excelent plant for a ornamental plant which is usualy brought into room to be admired in winter. Jori bamboo of Chejoo Island belongs to bambusaceae and grows as high as about 10080 cm height. It is fasciculate plant and nobody see its flower yet. It has elliptical or long and narrow elliptical leaves. It is also appreciated for a ornamental plant which is special product of Chejoo Island and grows halfway up the mountainside as a wild plant. This Administration issues this plant as a final stamp of the 12 plant series which having been issued monthly all over this year.`