THE CULTURE AND 

 THE CARE OF PALMS 



HE popularity of the Palm is 

 well deserved, for it is really 

 a beautiful plant if well 

 grown. The fatal " if," you 

 see ! There is no avoiding the 

 use of it in this connection, be- 

 cause it is a sorry fact that 

 nine out of every ten plants we see are not well 

 grown. Perhaps I would be justified in put- 

 ting the proportion at nineteen out of twenty. 

 Certain it is that we find very few really fine 

 specimens of the Palm outside the greenhouses. 

 The impression prevails to a considerable ex- 

 tent among amateurs who have tried to grow 

 the plant well and failed that it will live in the 

 dwelling-house, but it cannot be made to flour- 

 ish there. Such is not the case. It can be 

 made to grow most luxuriantly under the con- 

 ditions which prevail in the ordinary home pro- 

 vided it is given the right kind of treatment. 

 The average Palm has few leaves, the 



older ones having been removed because of 



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