Archive image from page 32 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1894roya Year: 1894 VII. Palms aed CycadSo 'THE PRINCES OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.' '' 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 forins of the broad-leaved vegetation by the stern grace of their simple lines ; the immovable pillar-stems looking the more immovable beneath the toss, and lash, and flicker of the long leaves, as they awak
Archive image from page 32 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual of Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1894roya Year: 1894 VII. Palms aed CycadSo 'THE PRINCES OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM.' '' 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 forins of the broad-leaved vegetation by the stern grace of their simple lines ; the immovable pillar-stems looking the more immovable 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 drawing-room, sharp-cut, cold, virginal; shaming by the grandeur of mere form the voluptuousness of mere color, however rich and harmonious ; so stands the Palm in the forest—to be worshipped rather thati to be loved.'—Charles Kingsley. ~k\\ Palms Pot-grown. Those followed by an asterisk () are the more hardy species. ABECA lutescens. From India. A remarkably fine decorative Palm. Pinnate-leaved, and very useful in all decorations. Specimens three feet high, $2 each ; small plants, 35 cts. each. ACROCOMIA Havanensis (?). ' Corojo Palm.' Cuba. $1 each. A. sclerocarpa. A hardy South American variety, growing 30 feet high. Very choice, and adapted to Florida. $1 each. AEENGA 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 wet 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 tree.'—I'on Mueller. $3 each. ATTALEA Cohnne [Cocas lapidea). Guatemala. 'This is the most conspi
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