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The cabbage-tree is not particular as to the kind of water it 
gets its moisture from. Fresh water or salt water, hard water 
or soft water or sulphur water high suit it equally well. 
We find the cabba 
below the crown of eee or wit boots ‘ on. e ots” 
on the re Two causes, however, remo First, 
lantic seaboard, the ee has a counterpart in the 
southcentral Unite tates. It is the seal tree (Sabal 
texanum) of southern Texas and adjacent Mex: 
Sabal of the Bahama Islands is ete eel with 
that of the south Atlantic mainland. It has been described as 
in Porto Rico, another in Jamaica and another in Trinidad. 
JoHn K. SMALL 
NOTES ON THE ROSE GARDEN 
(WITH PLATE 282) 
resent season finds our rose garden nearly the same 
in general outline and constitution as when was first estab- 
i h ide be i to time 
lishe n the out ave n adde time to ti 
few select climbers, not materially changing the effect, 
which was the usual heavy display of in J and be- 
ginning July only, but giving the e 
established. During the first seasons of its existence the rose 
1 Webbia 2: 38. 1907. 
