. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. COCOS NUCIFERA. ARENGA SACCHARIFERA. From India. (The Sugar Palm ) A very useful species; the trunk supplies sago, and the sap is con- verted into toddy-sugar. A highly ornamental hot- house species. 80 cts. to $3 each. ATTALEA COHUNE. From Guatemala. One of the most conspicuous palms of Central America; a magnificent species, dis- tinguished from other genera in having the pinnae ar- ranged vertically and not horizontally. The leaves spring up almost perp
. Annual illustrated and descriptive catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants. Tropical plants Catalogs; Nursery stock Florida Catalogs. COCOS NUCIFERA. ARENGA SACCHARIFERA. From India. (The Sugar Palm ) A very useful species; the trunk supplies sago, and the sap is con- verted into toddy-sugar. A highly ornamental hot- house species. 80 cts. to $3 each. ATTALEA COHUNE. From Guatemala. One of the most conspicuous palms of Central America; a magnificent species, dis- tinguished from other genera in having the pinnae ar- ranged vertically and not horizontally. The leaves spring up almost perpendicularly at the base, but the upper part is gracefully arched. $ to $5 each. CARYOTA. C. Alberti. Price on application. C. sobolifera. Malacca. An elegant, slender stemmed species; leaves bipinnate, light shining green. 65 cts. to $ each. C. urens. India. (Fish-tail Palm.) The largest grow- ing of the species, and one of the most ornamental. The sap of this species is largely used in making a kind of wine or toddy; hence it is known as the Wine Palm. In cultivation, it is called the Fish- tail Palm, from the resemblance of the pinnae to the tail of a fish. A very elegant species for house culture, and one that we can highly recorumend. Fine plants, 35 cts. each; a few extra large, $ each. CHAM/EROPS. C. Canariensis (?).* A handsome fan-leaved palm, suitable for sub-tropical gardening; from the Ca- nary Islands. 35 cts. each. C. excelsa (Trachycarpus excelsus). A quick growing and very desirable palm. 20 cts. each. C. Fortunei (Trachycarpus Fortunei). China and Japan. Similar to preceding, but of more dwarf habit. 30 cts. each. C. humilis.* Southern Europe and North- ern Africa. A very hardy dwarf fan-palm, and one that can be highly recommended either for house culture at the north or for open ground in the south. Through southern Florida, and especially in the gardens of the Riviera, the three or four species of true Chamaerops have been ex- tensively cultivated
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