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lanted in a soil vnm is pescar of limestone formation. 
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hundreds of these peat-loving plants, most of them in good health. The 
porousness of the natural soil will also be favourable to these, as peat 
so soon decomposes and becomes putty-like unless well drained. 
appreciable in the gardens, no plants appearing to suffer from it. 
aving seen and heard much of the injury done to plants growing near 
the sea by salt blown up during windy weather, I naturally expected to 
see signs of its ill-effects in the Riviera. Proba cases would have 
been found had further inquiry been made, but it is a fact that I neither 
heard of nor saw an 
Among the plants "which have been d the palms form by 
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dactylifera, the common Date, | its tall Might stem, 30 or more "foot 
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it could be easily improved by the addition of some such trees as 
Eucalyptus, Acacia, Late ir Oak, or even Plane. Hyéres might be 
named the town of Palms, so numerous are its date trees. In Bordighera 
this palm is extensively ‘Giltivitied for the sake of its leaves, which are 
sold to Roman Catholics and Jews for the decoration of churches at 
Easter, and for the feast of Tabernacles. The whole of the head of 
wn that was not tied up in this way. 
kate ie as striking and as plentiful as the Date are Phenix canari 
ensis and Washingtonia filifera AH filamentosa). The for 
is said to have been first introduced into the gardens of Baron Vigier 
at Nice about 20 years ago, where the tire Yee d all the plants of 
this palm now on the Riviera are still in existene t isa 
very rapid growth, of gigantic proportions and much more ornamental 
casi the date palm, or indeed than any of the species of Phoenix grown 
Equali ng the Canarian Phænix in its extensive use, in its propor- 
tions and in rapidity of growth, is the Washingtonia. The growth 
prices ile faked show that there is a stor e 
fter these, the palm which ranks next in popularity i is ararsa 
d ssh: is abundant in most of the and oceurs me- 
Date Paim 
o some height upon the hills above the coast-line, the 
