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PLANT CULTURE 



Cocos Weddelliana 



COURTESY HENRY A. DREER, INC., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Stand rough usage, to a certain extent, without showing bad effects. 

 Palms may be divided into two sections — those with pinnate or 

 feathered leaves and those with palmate or fan-shaped leaves. 

 Latania, Livistona, Chamasrops, Rhapis, Corypha, Licuala and 

 Thrinax are familiar examples of the section having fan-shaped 

 leaves; while the feather-leaved section is represented byKentia, 

 Phoenix, Areca, Arenga, Cocos, and Seaforthia. The commercial 

 kinds are grown very extensively by several firms, and so 

 cheaply are they offered that it does not pay to raise the seedUngs 

 in small quantities. For collections rather lengthy Hsts of species 

 are offered by several European seedsmen. The genera discussed 

 elsewhere in this book are: Acanthophoenix, Attalea, ChrysaUdo- 

 carpus, Chamserops, Cocos, Kentia, Latania, Livistona and 

 Phcenix. Besides these, Euterpe edulis, Rhapis flahclliformis and 



