ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 



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and now characteristic trees of southern Florida; the royal 

 PALM, considered by some botanists to be indigenous to Florida, 

 and used frequently as a street tree in that state; and the date 

 PALM, native to Africa, but now grown commonly in Florida, 

 the Gulf states and California as an ornamental. Other palms 



Fig. 291. — ^The Eucalyptus of Australia has become a common ornamental 



tree in California. 



have fan-shaped and palmately compound leaves. This type is 

 represented by the Washington fan palms (fig. 292) of which a 

 few wild groves occur in Palm Canyon and adjacent areas in 

 southern California. This tall and often ungainly tree bears the 

 accumulation of previous year's foliage as a protective covering 



