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palms because all of them are well worthy of cultivation and it 
is probable that all of them may be successfully grown. The 
cabbage palmetto, the porcupine palm, the saw palmetto and 
Sabal will prove hardy without doubt throughout most of the 
state; the other species will, most likely, only succeed in the 
lower part of it. It is probable that the species which grow in 
swamps will, with liberal feeding, do well on high ground. 
NATIVE ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
Florida is rich in native trees and undoubtedly has a consider- 
ably larger number of such species than any other state in the 
Union. In the northern part are many species belonging in the 
colder part of the eastern United States, such as the oaks, hick- 
ories, ashes, maples and walnuts. Then a number of warm 
temperate forms occur, and in the southern part of the state 
there are considerably over one hundred species whose metrop- 
olis is in the American Tropics, or which have been derived 
from tropical forms. Many of our trees are quite ornamental 
and a considerable number of them have been cultivated. 
Both the Georgia Pine (Pinus palustris) and the Caribbean 
pine (P. caribaea) are striking trees, quite ornamental, and good 
specimens should be left for ornament when ground is being 
cleared. 
Tumion taxifolium, better known as Torreya taxifolia or 
Stinking Cedar, is a handsome tree related to the yews and has 
proved to be hardy much farther north than its native locality, 
the left bank of the Appalachicola River. It has been suggested 
that it be grown in a half shaded, somewhat moist location. 
Juniperus barbadensis, the red cedar of Florida, also found in 
the Bahamas and several of the West Indies, is often planted in 
cemeteries in the state and is the most attractive of the J unipers. 
Casuarina equisetifolia, Australian Pine, is not a pine at all nor 
any near relation thereto. It is a native of the Oriental Tropics 
but is now quite generally distributed throughout the warmer 
parts of the world. It is an exceedingly rapid grower with hard, 
durable wood of a reddish color and is often called Beefwood on 
this account. It has become completely naturalized on the 
lower keys and mainland and will flourish on any kind of soil, 
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