. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. VIII. Palms and Cycads. "THE PRINCES OF THE VEGETABLE ; "For it is a joy for ever,a sight never to be forgotten, to have once seen palms breaking through, and as it were, defying the soft, rounded forms of the broad-leaved vegetation by the stern grace of their simple lines ; the immovable pillar-stems looking the more imi
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. VIII. Palms and Cycads. "THE PRINCES OF THE VEGETABLE ; "For it is a joy for ever,a sight never to be forgotten, to have once seen palms breaking through, and as it were, defying the soft, rounded forms of the broad-leaved vegetation by the stern grace of their simple lines ; the immovable pillar-stems looking the more iminovable beneath the toss, and lash, and flicker of the long leaves, as they awake out of their sunlit sleep, and rage impatiently for awhile before the mountain gusts, and fall asleep again. Like a Greek statue in a luxurious draiving-room, sharp-cut, cold, virginal; shaviing by the grandeur of mere form the voluptuousness of mere color, however rich and harvionious ; so stands the palm in the forestâto be worshipped rather than to be ;âCharles Kingsley. 2i^= All Palms Pot-grown. Those followed by an asterisk (*) are the more hardy species. JLBEGA lutescens. From ladia. A remarkably line decorative Palm. Fine specimens three feet high, $2 each; smaller, $1. A. Madagascariensis. A delicate grower. Very choice. $2 each. A. oleracea. A variety coming to us from the West Indies. Rare, $ each. ACROCOMIA Havanensis (â ?) " Corojo ; Cuba. $1 each. ARENGA saccharifera. The Celebrated Sugar Palm of India. " This Palm attains a height of forty feet. The black fibres of the leaf- stalks adapted for cables and ropes intended to resist vv^et very long; the juice converted into toddy or sugar; the young kernels made with syrup into preserves. This Palm dies as soon as it has produced its fruit; the stem then becomes hollow, and is used for spouts and troughs of great durability. The pith supplies sago, about 150 lbs. from a ;â Yon Mueller. S3
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