THE CABBAGE PALMETTO {Suhal Palmetto) 

 A globular crown of fan-like leaves sui mounts a columnar stem, which is bare and smooth only when old. The average 

 tree fifteen feet high has its trunk covered with a basket work, which is the natural interlacing of leaf bases whose fans have fallen 

 away. The "cabbage" is the crown bud which is chopped out of the end of the stem. The trunks are used as piles 

 for wharves 



