1883.] 



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almost too high to be housed with facility. Will headed back. In cases where pahns, yuccas, and 

 the palm throw out leaves again if cut off any- the like have become too large for the house, a keg 

 where below the present top ? Can it be cut back of earth or wet moss is kept around the stem at 



in any way so as to secure foliage lower down ? It I any selected height, into which the plant will root, 

 is hard to abandon such a beautiful specimen." | when it may be cut off below, and thus we get a 

 [Palms seldom, if ever, put out leaves when I shorter stem. — Ed. G. M.] 



