JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVI December, 1915 No, 192 
THE SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL OF TWO LARGE PALMS 
Last spring Mr. C. F. Dieterich, Less the late Mr. Samuel 
Thorne, offered two large palms of Phoenix reclinaia to the 
oo in removing the plants from the soil, tae ne ae 
ace o the future of the plants in the u 
ae part of the roots in the removal of the a ca 
paring them for transportation and the transportation itself would 
be considerable. 
There is probably not a better pair of plants of this species in 
the larger of which measured a little over seventeen feet long. 
he trunk exceeded eight feet in height and three feet in di- 
ameter at the largest part, the lower half being devoid of leaves. 
The palms were planted in a solid bed raised about two feet 
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