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British Columbia take great quantities of fruit aud 

 vegetables. Shipments of perishable fruits have not 

 always been found to be profitable, but the state is fast 

 settling up, and the outlook for the horticulturist is very 

 bright. J. A. Balmee. 



WASHINGTON GRASS. See Caboniba. 



WASHINGTONIA iiKimed for George Washington). 

 Pa I indeed . Tall |i:iliiis, with the robust trunks clothed 

 above with remiiiiis of the sheaths and petioles: Ivs. 

 terminal, ample, spreading, orbicular, flabellately pli- 

 cate lobed nearly to the middle segments induplicate 

 tlamentous on the nurgms rachis short ligule large 



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faliJera, Wendl {BfViea filamentosa, Hort B fi! 

 ifnt H)it Prit hiidia MametM':a, Wendl P 

 hlifeia Hort ) Weeping Pai,m Figs 2716 2717 

 Stemc\lindrieal 20-40 ft enlarged at the base (2-'ift ) 

 covered with peisistent petiole ^ases petioles 2-o ft 

 long l-2}i m wide it the summit, glibrous piano con 

 vex the rather thm margins with stout hooked spines 

 ligule large glabrous lai erate blade circular tomen 

 tose on the margins of the 40-60 segments, 3-5 ft m 

 diam , cleft on the upper side neirly to the middle, 

 gray green, segments margined with numerous fibers 

 6-12 m long S Calif , W Ariz (.n 2> p ili (t ( 



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6 oSo Gt ims 5 -W f I 1 I 1 1 



characteristic palm of Calit II i t 



bole and shaggv collar of I I I I 1 I i 



stnkmg and picturesque I II IHi 



leaves usually bums fieiceh iii tl li is u 



robusta, H Wendl {TTi 1 t s r Hr 



pait) Stem more robust ] ti I 1 it r uid 

 densely spmy, the young pi mts with yelliw sj ni< 

 black violet shenths and petioles at length I 

 blade hght green, 3 ft long by i^^ ft wide s, i: 

 60 Western '\Itx G P •"! M RH IWi p 40 



Sondrae TT - 11 



3-4 tt 

 peti le 



curved s( i cs ii 4 in I u^ c iil li Me v 



Jaked G ISMITH 

 Further Notes on WASHrNOTOViA —Our nursery 

 catalogues show that the ideutitj of the three species of 

 Washingtonia is a matter of conjecture in the minds of 

 growers. In middle California there are two distinct 

 types in general cultivation: (1) the one having very 

 filamentous deeply cleft leaves, long (3-5 ft.) petinles 

 ■with yellow marL'iiis .-in. I s|iiii.-s. evlii.'h is tlif Colonnln 

 Desert species. If. ,' - / ■ , W.niil.: it is liss harih- in 

 San Francisco IlKn :i , . ■. ^nir.Tinu I'i-mih .-oM 

 winds and fogsuTi-i - ■ > i • : — :it the cnh r nf thf 

 growing part. CJi IL.- -|" 'i- -- "'» nU "i"re rol.iist haLit, 

 the growing part of the stem shorter aud therefore more 

 distinctly conical, dark leaf-sheaths, short, stout petioles 

 with brown, often very dark margins and spines, and 

 shorter, more rigid, less deeply cut and often less fila- 

 mentous leaf -blades, which is the one from Mexico and 

 Lower California, IT. rohusta, Wendl. ( IF. .•ioimnr, 

 Hort. Calif, in part). This dark color of the petiole 

 margins and spines is equally noticeable in the young 

 as well as in older specimens. Comparative study of 

 the inflorescence may perhaps establish this palm as a 

 mere geographical variety of W. Hlifera, but we have 

 not been able to study flowering specimens. It is cer- 

 tain that a part of the material oft'ered 

 under the name of \Viislin^>:i^>h,'i .s' ;,.. 



Its 



Wj W. 



Francisco shows that ir,i ; ,',/ is by far 



the most desirable s|.i-cii s im niiii.niH.n along the 

 coast of middle California. 



The following data give evidence that many of the 

 specimens in cultivation in the San Francisco bay re- 

 gion have originated from Mexican seed and are not, as 



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is sometimes suggested, mere cultural varieties devel- 

 oped from seed' of the tvi>ic:il form of the Colorado 

 Desert. Ac.-.itiIiiil; n. (Ii.irl.- Al.ralium, for many 

 years pfoprici I ' ■ ' ! ix. San Francisco, 



seed of SVnsI introduced some 



twenty-five \ I ;n. i^.. !>> Mr, Sr, - -,.\ it. -h. a commission 

 merchant of San Francisco, from the coast of Mexico 

 near Guaymas. Uf the trees raised from this seed there 

 is a specimen at Abraham's nursery, and Mr. Abraham 

 states that there is a fine one in the grounds of St. 

 Ignatius College, San Francisco, and another at the 

 Crocker residence in Sacramento. The latter has al- 

 read> matured seed, fiom which Mr Abraham has 

 raised a voung plant In the old Bolton garden at 

 ( 1 11 n b mil Jones streets, San Fianeisco theie were 

 til this J ear seveial well marked specimens. 

 '\Iiss Lizzie Bolton, these were raised fiom 

 ted to her mother Mrs James R Bolton 

 I Mis Estrada) by friends who brought them 

 fi m "\I 1/ tlan These specimens are now m Mr Abra- 

 ham s possession A third import ition of seed was made 

 by Mr John Rock ni mager cf the California Nursery 

 Co it \ 1 s 1 it we 1 1 not know whence It came 



th 



i^^\y 



2716. Young plant of Washingtonia filifera. 



petiole and glaucous leaf of the true W. Sonora. This 

 species appears to be much less hardy under cultivation 

 than IF. robusta. 



From the above notes it would appear that both W. 



