The new international encyclopaedia . ttended with great expense. In hot-houses they are cultivated merely as objects ofinterest, and for the gratification of a refinedtaste, never for the .sake of their fruit or anyother product. The earliest fossil palms date back to theiliddle Cretaceous. They are common in theUjiper Cretaceous of Xorth America, where theyoccur as far north as (ireenland. and they arefound also in the Tertiaries of North .Americaand Europe. The prominent genera are Flabel-laria, Chaniierops, Sabal, Phienix, allied to themodern fan, palmetto, and date palms. PALM, .
The new international encyclopaedia . ttended with great expense. In hot-houses they are cultivated merely as objects ofinterest, and for the gratification of a refinedtaste, never for the .sake of their fruit or anyother product. The earliest fossil palms date back to theiliddle Cretaceous. They are common in theUjiper Cretaceous of Xorth America, where theyoccur as far north as (ireenland. and they arefound also in the Tertiaries of North .Americaand Europe. The prominent genera are Flabel-laria, Chaniierops, Sabal, Phienix, allied to themodern fan, palmetto, and date palms. PALM, . PiiiLiPP (1760-1800). Abookseller of Nuremberg, who has acquired his-toric celebrity as a victim of Napoleonic justicein Germany. He was born in Schorndorf,Bavaria, and .succeeded his father-in-law. Stein,as a bookseller in Nuremberg, the old name ofthe firm being retained. In the spring of 1800 apamphlet, entitled Deulschland in seiner tiefenErnirtlrifiung. which contained some bitter truthsconcerning Napoleon and the conduct of the. ^PWF-??^
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