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Thirty years ene wrote more sanely of 
the Palmetto tree of Carolina as follows 
“This is the only species of that numerous and useful genus of 
trees, the Palm, that is found to grow without the tropics: I 
its vicinity, wit any hardy trees whic! na lized 
t gland, would induce one to conclude that this tree also, 
as well as those, may be ey to bear the cold of our country; 
b 1 American trees of the same latitude are not equally 
hardy, trial only ae how far this tree is capable of 
abiding the open air of our climate. Was the singular 
specious appearance of these trees known urious, there 
to the Cur 
would need no other excitement to the desire of procuring them, 
which with no great difficulty may be effected from Charles 
Town in South Carolina; within four miles of irae is a —e 
sed fo g- 
hats, eae ae wih Lage s omer utensils. The berries 
are globular t taste; and is a 
great pare ol the food « of the oe Indians.” 
“Sir , that the name o - Palm seems best 
to agree with this kind, because the leaf resembles a hand more 
than any of the other sorts.” 
This paper is accompanied by an elaborate plate—a good dia- 
grammatic representation of the cabbage-tree, 
1Hortus Europae Americanus 40, 
