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leafy shoots in the axils of the old leaves near the base of the trunk, 
and even some distance from the ground. A very remarkable case 
of this kind is shown in fig. 3, a photograph of a palm growing in a 
Twenty leafy shoots were counted on 
private garden in Naples. 
The trunk just above the soil measures 
one side of the trunk alone. 
leaf ng 3-—Phoenix dactylijera, with . . yhose 
Bet in the axils of old leaves. panion tree to that shown In fig. 3, Wn0 
leaves show in the upper foreground. 
7 in circumference, but these abnormal growths so increase its 
Size at a height of 130°™ that it measures 500°. In this tree and . 
the others in the botanical garden roots had arisen from the base 0 
these shoot 
vis 4 shows the companion tree to the date palm of jig. 3, which i 
“llowed its natural habit. The branching one has not attained the 
eight of the other, but is well developed in every other way. 
3. 4.—Phoenix dactylijera; com- 
