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The Mangrove and Palmetto. 



idly growing in favor as a shade tree, and is incomparalile 

 for posts, it lasts for a great many years when imbedded 

 in the earth. But "the noblest Roman of them all" is the 



Fig. i8o. 





Trtte Mans^rove, 



cabbage palmetto, Chamoerops palmetto (Fig. 179). As Mr. 

 Hart, of Florida, says, this is the linden of the South. It 

 yields abundant honey, which, as all who saw and tasted it 



