Archive image from page 51 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 46 Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Florida. OKEODOXAregia. The 'Glory of the Mountains.' The Palma real of the Spanish Westlndies. Royal Palm. One of the grandest of pinnate-leaved Palms. ' Close by the cotton-tree stood another giant of the forest, rivaling the former in height, but dif- fering from it as an arrow from its bow. Straight as a lance it rose to the height of an hundred feet. It was branchless as a column of
Archive image from page 51 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 46 Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Florida. OKEODOXAregia. The 'Glory of the Mountains.' The Palma real of the Spanish Westlndies. Royal Palm. One of the grandest of pinnate-leaved Palms. ' Close by the cotton-tree stood another giant of the forest, rivaling the former in height, but dif- fering from it as an arrow from its bow. Straight as a lance it rose to the height of an hundred feet. It was branchless as a column of polished mala- chite or marble up to its high summit, where its green, feather-like fronds radiating outward, droop- ed gracefully over, like a circlet of retlexed ostrich plumes. The'noble moun- tain cabbage' of Jamaica, the kingly Oreodoxa.'— Mayne' Ri&l. The Royal Palm stands light frosts unharmed, but the freeze of January, '86, was fatal to good-siz ed plants in this latitude. Native in several localities of extreme South Florida. Three trees once stood on Cape Sable, visible eighteen miles out at sea, but were destroyed by the gale of 1873. The Royal Palms of Capo Roman reach a height of 150 feet. Valu- able as a decorative Palm. 25 cts. each, $ per doz.; 3 to 4ft., 50 cts. each, $5 per doz. Our nurseries were named from some fine specimens of this Palm—and royal indeed it is—which were growing here luxuriantly before the great freeze of 1886. This killed them completely, and in the place of the best one we now have another sturdy plant. The il- lustration on first page of cover is a Royal Palm. 0, sp. from Demerara (British Guiana). This comes from the Royal Botanic Gardens, and as yet is unnamed. $1 each. PHCENIX, The Date Palms. We unhesitatingly recommend the genus Phoenix for the most extensive cultivation in the open air in the lower south, and for the conservatory and greenhouse north. All are of exceedingly rapid growth comparatively, are strong, health
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