THeEovusia B. SHEPHERD COMPANY’S CATALOGUE 49 
only be planted where there is pienty of room. For the conservatory and house culture, for 
halls. offices and room decoration, they cannot be excelled. They require but little care to keep 
them in good condition a long time. 
Chamaerops Excelsa or Windmill Palm. China, Japan, India, 30 feet. Leaves fan- 
shaped, deeply cut This is the hardiest palm we have, and, although it is not such a rapid 
grower as some, it is beautiful and worthy of extensive cultivation, as it is very ornamental, a 
symmetrical grower, and has very handsome palmate leaves. The trunk is slender making it 
especially desirable for small places. It makes an attractive pot plant. 15c to 25c each; larger 
ones 75c; $1.50 to $2.50 doz. 
Corypha Australis. Australia, 60 to 80 feet; one of the handsomest of the fan palms; the 
fan-like leaves are dark green, supported upon brown petioles, which are armed at their edges 
with stout spines; well suited for the decoration of apartments; hardy only in localities not 
subject to severe frosts. 50c to $1.00 each. 
Erythea Armata From LowerCalifornia. The striking ‘‘blue palm,’’ known also under 
the names of Brahea glauca and B. Roezli; probably the most glaucous of fan palms; will prefer 
rocky soil, and will stand some degree of frost. Leaves a beautiful grayish blue. 75c to $3 00. 
Erythea Edulis. From Guadalupe Island. More rapid grower than the preceeding, and 
one of the finest and hardiest fan palms. Trunk slender, 30 feet and more high; leaves broad, 
bright green, with woolly petioles; blooms quite young, bearing a wonderful profusion of large, 
round fruit turning black at maturity, and edible. A very pretty house plant even when quite 
young. 25c, 50c to £3.00. 
Latania Borbonica. A Chinesefan palm; very elegant and graceful with large shining 
beautiful arching leaves. 25¢, 75c and $1.00. 
Kentia Belmoriana or Curly Palm. From Lord Howe’s Island. One of the most 
valuable of house palms; elegant, pinnate leaves on long stems, beautiful, even when small. 
zac to $3.00 
Kentia Forsteriana or Thatch-Leaf Palm. From Lord Howe’s Island. <A _ robust- 
growing variety; very graceful and attractive. The two palms areimmensely popular for 
house palins, the leaves are on long slender stems that give a grace peculiarly their own. 
They resemble in general style, the difference in manner of growth. 75c to $3.00. 
Phoenix Canariensis. One of the most valuable and easily grown of the family. Fine for 
house plants, and grand for planting out, it attains immense proportions, with a massive trunk 
three feet in diameter, crowned with long arching pinnate fronds 8 to 12 feet long; a superb 
tree. Small ones 25c: larger sizes 50c to $5.00 each. 
Cycadifolia A beautiful pinnate variety with shining, arching foliage; grows fast and 
makes splendid specimens; fine for pots also. $1.50 to $10.00. 
Seaforthia Elegans. One of the most gracefuland beautiful palms for house decoration 
or the garden where there is no frost. It bas a tall slender trunk surmounted by plumy arching 
fronds, and when mature bears from a sheath above the lower fronds which fall away, to give 
room to a great stem of flowers that loosen and fall like ropes of beads, the ropes or strings are 
creamy-pink, the buds, the inost exquisite shade of mauve; these develop later into bright, red 
seeds about the size of a smali cherry, and are very ornamental, it isalways blooming or seeding. 
The lovely colors make it very attractive. Without character 15 to 25¢e each, $1.50 to $2.00 doz. 
Strong plants 50c to $2 00 each. 
Washingtonia Filifera or California Fan Palm. It is of graceful habit and quick 
growth; the leaves are palmated with numerous divisions and whitish filaments; the most 
desirable of all palms; should be planted everywhere, as it does well in almost any soil. 25¢ 
to 41.50 each. 
Robusta. One of the hardiest and most beautiful of palms; in habit of growth resembling 
our well-known California Fan Paim, but more symmetrical and spreading, and by far a superior 
palm, leaves fan-shaped, medium size; no filaments; retaining its dark green color during the 
winter months; stems short, thorny, of upright, compact growth; should have precedence over 
the California Fan Palm, and no doubt will have when its value as one of the grandest of our 
decorative plants is fully appreciated. 25c to $1.50. 
Five 25c palms for $1.00 postpaid. We fill no order for plants for less than $1.00 unless 10¢ is 
sent for postage. 
Dracenas. 
Indivisa. A fine old variety in great demand for pot plants. It has very narrow arching 
leaves; extremely graceful. 
