Archive image from page 550 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 WASHINGTON WASHINGTONIA 1965 British Columbia talce great quantities of fruit and vegetables. Shipments of perishable fruits have not always been found to be profitable, but tlie state is fast settling up, and
Archive image from page 550 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 WASHINGTON WASHINGTONIA 1965 British Columbia talce great quantities of fruit and vegetables. Shipments of perishable fruits have not always been found to be profitable, but tlie state is fast settling up, and the outlook for the horticulturist is very briglit. J. A. Balmer. WASHINGTON GRASS. See Cahomha. WASHINGTONIA (named for George Washington). PalmiUae. Tall palms, with the robust trunks clothed above with remains of the sheaths and petioles: Ivs. terminal, ample, spreading, orbicular, flabellately pli- cate, lobed nearly to the middle: segments induplicate, filamentous on the margins: rachis short: ligule large, appressed: petiole long, stout, plano-convex, very spiny along the edges; spadices long, copiously paniculately branched, glabrous: slender, flexuous; spathes long, membranous, split, glabrous : fls. white : fr. small, ellipsoid, black. Species 3. Ariz., S. Calif, and Mexico. Plate XLVIII. Jilifera, Wendl. {BrAJiea filamentosa, Hort. B. (11- ifera, Hort; filaiuentdsa, Wendl. P. filifera, Hort.). Weeping Palm. Pigs. 2716, 2717. Stem cylindrical, 20-40 ft., enlarged at the base (2-3 ft.), covered with persistent petiole bases; petioles 2-5 ft. long, 1-2/ in. wide at the summit, glabrous, plano-con- vex, the rather thin margins with stout, hooked spines; ligule large, glabrous, lacerate; blade circular, tomen- tose on the margins of the 40-60 segments, 3-5 ft. in diam., cleft on the upper side nearly to the middle, gray-green; segments margined with numerous fibers 6-12 in. long. S. Calif., W. Ariz. Gn. 25, p. 393. :591. 1876, p. 372;
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