. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PHCENIX PHOENIX 1309 and at length dorsally divided ; bracts usually obso- lete: fls. yellow: fr. a berry or drupe, oblong, orange, brown or black Species 10 to 12, perhaps more. Tropi- cal and subtropical Asia and Africa. Jared G. Smith. Phcenix in General. —The latest botanical monograph of Phcenix (by Beccar
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PHCENIX PHOENIX 1309 and at length dorsally divided ; bracts usually obso- lete: fls. yellow: fr. a berry or drupe, oblong, orange, brown or black Species 10 to 12, perhaps more. Tropi- cal and subtropical Asia and Africa. Jared G. Smith. Phcenix in General. —The latest botanical monograph of Phcenix (by Beccari in Malesia 3:345) admits only 10 species, although there are about 60 names. Such a "lumping" of species is very unwelcome to the horti- culturist, and it is probable that nearly all the synonyms cited below represent forms that are abundantly dis- tinct for horticultural purposes. A good horticultural appreciation of Phoe- nix is that by William Watson, of Kew, in III. 9:234-, 298, from which liberal ex- tracts are made below. Phoenixes differ from all other pinnate-leaved palms in having the Ivs. folded upwards and lengthwise, and in the peculiar form of the seed, as seen in the Date stone. The plants are either male or female. The fruits of only one species are used for food; viz., P. dactylifera. (For Date culture, see Date.) In England only P. rupi- cola. ranks among popular decorative plants. Of all palms, the cultivated species of Phoe- nix are the most difficult to define. Many hybrids have been raised in the gardens of the Riviera, where many species flower and fruit every year. It is almost impossible to keep these pure. Kerchove records the won- derful fecundity of a Phcenix; P. recHnata at Nice fertilized with pollen from P. tenuis, reclinata and punilla produced 20,000 seeds. The rais- ing of Phoenixes from seed is done on a large scale on the Riviera. The seeds are sown in beds in the open and the seedlings transplanted into shallow trenches, li
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