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COCONUT PALMS NEAR MIAMI. 



These magnificent palms, growing on the estate of Charles Deering at Buena Vista, are as 

 large and vigorous as any to be found in the South Sea islands, and annually bear heavy crops 

 of nuts. The coconut is a prince among ornamental plants; it can almost be considered, in 

 fact, emblematic of the tropics, and its presence in any planting creates an atmosphere which 

 cannot be produced by any other member of the plant kingdom. (Frontispiece) 



