. Descriptive catalogue of small fruits, fruit trees, grape vines : ornamental trees, shrubs, and roses. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 76. PHCEXIX CAXARIEXSIS (From a specimen on our grounds) Phoenix, sylvestris— The Wild Date. A native of India; very hardy and very use- iul, the leaves being used for mats, ropes and baskets, and the sap furnishing the palm sugar in its native country. Leaves long, arched and of a glaucous green color. Very fine for dec
. Descriptive catalogue of small fruits, fruit trees, grape vines : ornamental trees, shrubs, and roses. Nurseries (Horticulture) California Fresno Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. 76. PHCEXIX CAXARIEXSIS (From a specimen on our grounds) Phoenix, sylvestris— The Wild Date. A native of India; very hardy and very use- iul, the leaves being used for mats, ropes and baskets, and the sap furnishing the palm sugar in its native country. Leaves long, arched and of a glaucous green color. Very fine for decorative purposes. " tenuis—A recent, but very elegant addition to the genus: it resembles dactylifera in general appearance, but is more slender and finer in all its parts. Pritchardia filifera {Brahea filamentosa)— Native of this State. It is of grace- ful habit and quick growth; the leaves are palniatified with numerous divisions and whitish filaments. The most desirable of all palms; should be planted everywhere, as it does well on almost any soil. 14 Robusta — Leaves more rounded than the preceding and with less of the hairy-like filaments. Rhapis flabelliformis — A very pretty little cane Palm, which suckers from the roots like the Bamboo, with many fingered bright dark green leaves, borne at the end of the reed-like stems. A delicate and graceful plant, very desirable for house decoration. Sabal Andansonii — The dwarf palmetto of Georgia and Florida. Leaves a dark rich green, with smooth edged stems. Flower-spike rises above the leaves to a height of six or seven feet. This palm resists severe cold unharmed. " Palmetto—The Cabbage Palmetto. A native of the Southern States and famous for its historical associations and for the imperishability of its wood under water. Leaves long and deeply divided; the bases of the leaf stalks remain on the trunk until the tree advances in age, when they fall off, leaving a rough trunk 8 to io inches in diameter. Th
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