. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 44 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, LATANIA BORBONICA. LiATANIA Borbonica, {Livistona Si- nensis.) One of the most popular and hardy of the Fan-Palms. Should have partial shade while young, as the hot sun yellows the foli- age. Large plants, $ to $io each. OREODOXA
. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 44 REASONER BROS., MANATEE, LATANIA BORBONICA. LiATANIA Borbonica, {Livistona Si- nensis.) One of the most popular and hardy of the Fan-Palms. Should have partial shade while young, as the hot sun yellows the foli- age. Large plants, $ to $io each. OREODOXA regia. The " Glory of the ; The Palma real of the Spanish West Indies. 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 differing 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 malachite or marble —up to its high summit, where its green, feather-like fronds, radiating outward, droop- ed gracefully over, like a circlet of reflexed ostrich plumes. The noble 'mountain cab- bage' of Jamaica, the kingly Oreodoxa^— Mayne Reid. The Royal Palm stands light frosts un- harmed, but the freeze of January, '86, was fatal to good-sized plants in this latitude. Native in several localities of extreme South Florida. Three noble trees once stood on Cape Sable, visible eighteen miles out at sea, but were destroyed by the gale of 1872. The Royal Palms of Cape Roman reach a height of 150 feet. Very valuable as a decorative palm when small. 50 cents to f 10 each. PSEHDOPHCENIX Sargentii. Flor- ida's newly discovered Palm. Discovered in the summer of '86 on Elliotts' Key, by Prof. Sargent, of England, and named (as it was sufficiently distinct to constitute both a new species and a new genus) in honor of the lat- ter, by Prof. Wendlandt, of Germany. It is known nowhere else i
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