Missouri Botanical 
Garden Bulletin 
Vol. I St. Louis, Mo., October, 1913 No. 10 
TWO NEW PALMS. 
The Missouri Botanical Garden is fortunate in receiving, 
ete the generosity of Mr. D. S. Brown, two remark- 
ably fine palms from his collection at Kirkwood. These 
plants have been in Mr. Brown’s possession for a consider- 
able number of years and as both of the giant specimens 
were touching the roof of the house in shack they were 
wing, it became necessary to remove them to a taller 
structure in which their future growth might continue. 
The central greenhouse of the new plant range recently 
completed at the Garden, is sixty-five feet in height at the 
center, and offers an ideal location for these plants. Ar- 
rangements were made for their removal from Brownhurst 
immediately after the offer from Mr. Brown was received. 
Two large rock wagons, an extra pair of wheels, roller trol- 
leys, pulleys, jacks, etc., were necessary to assist in their 
transportation, it beng ge an undertaking to successfully 
remove from a crowded greenhouse such delicate plants, 
weighing between one and two tons each. 
The sugar palm (Arenga saccharifera) has a trunk measur- 
ing about six feet in height and one and one-half in diam- 
eter, and is thirty-one feet from the base of the trunk to the 
tip of the leaves. This is undoubtedly the largest sugar palm 
in cultivation in this country. The greatest care had to be 
taken to prevent the tender growing leaves from being 
to securely a and fasten them 
is palm is a native 
of the Malucca and Philippine archipelagoes and is cultivated 
in Maducea, Siam and Cochin China, where it is known to 
the natives as “ejow” or “gomuti palm.” It is one of the 
principal sources of palm sugar, ‘jaggery,” which is ob- 
tained by boiling and evaporating the saccharine juice which 
flows upon wounding they orn er 
ey juice yields “toddy” or palm 
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