Canebrake

a thicket of cane. Bundles of the American cane are shipped over the country as "bamboo" fishing poles. Cane grows in almost impenetrable thickets in the bottom lands of Kentucky and southward. Many authorities call cane a bamboo. At all events it is closely related to the larger plant so much used by the natives of southeast Asia. Cane grows from ten to forty feet high with a thickness at the butt of one-half to three inches. Cane is, of course, only a large reed. It belongs, with sugar-cane and broom corn, to the grass family. See Bamboo