. 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. 1310 PHCENIX and tlie height above the ground is 4-5 ft., while at least 3 feet more are buried in the ground like a post to keep the exceedingly heavy top in position. The trunk all around and up from the ground is provided with strong Ivs. 10-15 ft. long. In the lower extremity of each frond the leaflets are
. 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. 1310 PHCENIX and tlie height above the ground is 4-5 ft., while at least 3 feet more are buried in the ground like a post to keep the exceedingly heavy top in position. The trunk all around and up from the ground is provided with strong Ivs. 10-15 ft. long. In the lower extremity of each frond the leaflets are replaced by long formidable spines, which perhaps serve the purpose of protecting the trunk and the earth of the plant from the attacks of man and beast. The type of the genus, the common Date-palm, PlKfiUx dacti/Ufera, is the least ornamental of all, and its growth is disappointingly slow The writer has seen a plant lb years oU which just now begms to form a graphs The Ea u\\i having the t 11 i J j! t though tolia^e as the common spe cies, is a rapid grower and an exceedingly beautiful and stately palm The writer has seen specimens 12 5ears from the seed that had assumed a height of 2o ft with Ivs. 12-15 ft long and a spread of thf ctown 2o-30 ft m diameter It is perfectly hardj h i\ m^ st( od a fiost of 15° above zero and it grows equdll\ well on hish ind low land, though its growth is much ([uicl moist soil The stateliest of all the palms that cin be grown in the gardens of Florida is the C n ii\ Isl md Date Phoenix Cana)lensis a species witli hui^e tnmk and irlj ' Ivs 12 lo ft : averaging 30 ft m di densely set along the 1 and are of a glossy d\i or 10 years this specie show its true charactei in diameter and its mi barrel. At an age of grand and noble obiect beauty. There is no 1 can compile with it in n 3f the crown . which are aie flattened \nA rapidity of gionth 1 1 enhuued if planted in groups or if 11 I I | ens ot Sabals and Cocos and the gi 11 I A lentea Land scape
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