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for a limited number of people, and we need not 

 consider it more at length here. 



It suffices to say that the methods of hybridizing 

 and selection that have proved successful with 

 other plants will doubtless be found to have full 

 application to the palm; and to add that the actual 

 work in this field has been begun only in a tenta- 

 tive way. 



The method of hybridizing is simplicity itself 

 as simple as crossing two varieties of corn. 



Meantime, however, the palm exists as an orna- 

 mental tree of the very greatest value in California, 

 and the interest shown in it by tourists justifies the 

 expectation that in the near future, efforts of a 

 comprehensive character may be made, probably 

 under government supervision, to develop races of 

 palms that can be grown far to the north of the 

 present limits of this tree in the Eastern United 

 States. 



A drive along Grange boulevard in Los Angeles, 

 for example, and inspection of its rows of palms, 

 alternating with pepper trees, gives the visitor 

 from the East a mental picture of the possibilities 

 of this race of trees for ornamental purposes that 

 should certainly stimulate a spirit of emulation. 

 Interspersed among pines their brothers of pre- 

 historic times they will be particularly appropri- 

 ate and look especially well. 



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