1.   Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane.

2.   Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.

3.   Charlie Chaplin bought whangees, flexible bamboo canes.

4.   Has a lot of bamboo canes with five- or six-fingered fronds.

5.   I love nandina, just as I love those tall, rustling bamboo canes.

6.   Indian and foreign reporters described scenes in which soldiers with automatic rifles and bamboo canes moved through Muslim neigborhoods threatening inhabitants with reprisals if they did not vote.

7.   Last May, an American teen-ager, Michael P. Fay, received four lashes with a bamboo cane after he confessed to charges of spray-painting cars.

8.   Spark is seated behind a desk in her book-lined study, a bamboo cane by her side.

9.   The guards caught the boys later that day, holding them for four hours and repeatedly whipping them with belts and bamboo canes, the police said.

10.   The guards caught the boys later that day, holding them for four hours and repeatedly whipping them with belts and bamboo canes, according to police.