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incongruous to any one who has seen the Palm with all its dignity 

 and grace in its own land. Ugly themselves as they are in the 

 London parks, they take the place of trees and shrubs of our northern 

 lands, which attain their full stature and beauty in our own clime. 



W. R., Times, 24th July 1915. 



