. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. MUSA ENSETE. MUSA. Banana. " As for the plant on which they grow, no mere words can picture the simple grandeur and grace of a form which startles me whenever I look steadily at it; for, however common it is—none com- moner here—it is so unlike aught else, so perfect
. Annual catalogue and price list of the Royal Palm Nurseries : tropical and semi-tropical trees and plants and rare exotics for the greenhouse or lawn. Nurseries (Horticulture), Florida, Catalogs; Tropical plants, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. MUSA ENSETE. MUSA. Banana. " As for the plant on which they grow, no mere words can picture the simple grandeur and grace of a form which startles me whenever I look steadily at it; for, however common it is—none com- moner here—it is so unlike aught else, so perfect in itself, that, like a palm, it might well have become, in early ages, an object of wor- ship. And who knows that it has not? Who knows that there have not been races who looked on it as the red Indian looked on Mondamin, the maize plant—as a gift of a god —perhaps the incarnation of a god ? Who knows? * * * * Most beautiful is it. The lush fat green stem ; the crown of leaves, falling over in curves like those of human limbs ; and below, the whorls of green or golden fruit, with the purple heart of flowers dangling below them, and all so full of life, that this splendid object is the product of a few ;—Kingsley. For fruit-bearing varieties, see Tropi- cal Fruit Plants. M. Ensete. The Abyssinian Banana, Bruce's Banana. A native of the moun- tains of Abyssinia. "This magnificent plant attains a height of thirty feet, the leaves occasionally reaching the length of twenty feet, with a width of three feet, being perhaps the largest in the whole em- pire of plants, exceeding those of Strelitzia and Ravenala, and surpassing even in quadrate measurement those of the grand water plant Pretoria regia, while also ex- celling in comparative circumference the largest compound frond of Angiopteris evecta or the divided leaf of Godwinia gigas, though the compound leaves of some palms are still larger. The inner part of the stem and the young spike of the Ensete c
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