. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Phoenix Canariensis. TVIARTIHEZIA, continued. but unlike them, the petioles and veins of the pinnae are armed with strong black ; Fine young plants, $i each. Specimens 2 feet high or taller, § each. OREODOXA regia. The ' 'Glory of the Mountains.'' The Palma real of the Spanish West Indies. Royal Palm. One of the grandest of pinnate- leaved
. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Phoenix Canariensis. TVIARTIHEZIA, continued. but unlike them, the petioles and veins of the pinnae are armed with strong black ; Fine young plants, $i each. Specimens 2 feet high or taller, § each. OREODOXA regia. The ' 'Glory of the Mountains.'' 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 a hundred feet. It was branchless as a col- umn of polished malachite or marble up to its high summit, where its green, feather-like fronds, radiating outward, drooped gracefully over, like a circlet of reflexed ostrich plumes. The ' noble mountain cabbage ' of Jamaica, the kingly ;—Mavne Reid. The Royal Palm stands light frosts unharmed, but the freeze of January, '86, was fatal to good-sized plants in this latitude. Native in several locali- ties of extreme South Florida. Three trees once stood on Cape Sable, visible 18 miles out at sea, but were destroyed by the gale of 1872. The Royal Palms of Cape Roman reach a height of 150 feet. Valuable as a decorative Palm. Our nurseries were named from some fine. Phoenix Leonensis. (See page 33.) OREODOXA, continued. specimens of this Palm—and royal indeed it is—which were growing here luxuriantly before the great freeze of 1886. This killed them com- pletely, and in the place of the best one we now have another sturdy plant. The Palms and Palm-leaf on the covers of this catalogue are taken from photographs of Royal Palms. 15 to 24 inches high, 25 cents each, per dozen ; 3 to 4 feet, 35 cents each, $ per doze
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