Archive image from page 28 of Descriptive catalogue and price list. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants descriptivecata1891seve_0 Year: 1891 COCOS NUCIFERA. ARENGA SACCHARIFERA. India. The Sugar Palm. A very useful species ; the trunk supplies sago, and the sap is converted into toddy-sugar. A highly ornamental hot-house species. 80 cents to 3 each. ATTALEA COHUNE. Guatemala. One of the most conspicuous palms of Central America ; a magnificent species, distin- guished from other genera in havin
Archive image from page 28 of Descriptive catalogue and price list. Descriptive catalogue and price list : tropical and semi-tropical, fruit trees, palms, ornamental plants, orchids and greenhouse plants descriptivecata1891seve_0 Year: 1891 COCOS NUCIFERA. ARENGA SACCHARIFERA. India. The Sugar Palm. A very useful species ; the trunk supplies sago, and the sap is converted into toddy-sugar. A highly ornamental hot-house species. 80 cents to 3 each. ATTALEA COHUNE. Guatemala. One of the most conspicuous palms of Central America ; a magnificent species, distin- guished 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. sobolifera. Malacca. An elegant slender stemmed species; leaves bipinnate, light shining green. 65 cents to $ each. C. urens. India. The largest growing 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 which we can highly recommend. Fine plants, 35 cents each ; a few extra large, $ each. CHAM/EROPS. C. canariensis(?I. A handsome fan-leaved palm, suitable for sub-tropical gardening ; from the Canary Islands. 35 cents each. C. humilis. Southern Europe and Northern Africa. A very hardy dwarf fan- palm, and one that can be highly recom- mended either for house culture at the north or for open ground in the south. Through Southern Florida, and especially in the gardens of the Rivira, the three or four species of true Chamaerops have been extensively cultivated, and these, by cross fertilization, have produced numerous hy- brids, some of which are very handsome ; and as they are all equally hardy with the parents, a collection of
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