The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . BOSUS. a cocoanut; and, by treating it as recommended in the chapter upon sowing seeds,you will have a plant in four or five years time worth nearly as many guineas Notes and Gleanino;s. ^n as you paid pence for the nut. We are not speaking at random ; for at the pres-ent moment we know a plant, raised from a nut planted four years back, thatstands over six feet high, and for which the proprietor would not take less thanfive guineas in the ordinary way of trade. It is not in the possession of a pri-vate grower, who could set any fa
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . BOSUS. a cocoanut; and, by treating it as recommended in the chapter upon sowing seeds,you will have a plant in four or five years time worth nearly as many guineas Notes and Gleanino;s. ^n as you paid pence for the nut. We are not speaking at random ; for at the pres-ent moment we know a plant, raised from a nut planted four years back, thatstands over six feet high, and for which the proprietor would not take less thanfive guineas in the ordinary way of trade. It is not in the possession of a pri-vate grower, who could set any fancy price upon a plant because he had no wislito part with it. We have also seen two plants, raised by a private grower in thesame space of time, that now stand twelve feet high, with immense fronds. Wehave mentioned this rather fully, to enable any one to see how easy and simplethese plants are to cultivate, and with what a very small outlay any one can be-gin, if he be content to commence in a small way. C. coronata and C. Peru-viana are both trooil THKINAX PARVIFLORA. ^^ D(Bmonorops plutnosa \^ ont o( iho. most elegant palms grown. A smallgrower. The leaves are a fine deep green, handsomely plumed. Euterpe edulisis especially good. It grows with a slender stem, and from the summit it throwsout on all sides beautiful dark-green arching fronds. Whether twenty inches ortwenty feet high, this is one of the very best. ? Livistonia olivaformis and L. subglobosiis are two of the grandest fan-palmsgrown : too much cannot be said in their favor, and they are both cheap. Phoenkorphoriiffi Sechellarum is rather a rare but extremely beautiful palm,from the Island of Seychelles. The leaves are dark green, spotted with brightorange ; and the stem and leaf-stalks are armed with long needle-shaped spines:a very distinct kind. Thrinax presents us with several splendid species. T. argeiitea, Martii,elegans, and radiata, are all first-class. Verschaffeltia splendida. — We will not go
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