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sized pots for house, conservatory, and ballroom decoration, for which purposes they 

 have no equals. The Fan Palm, Latania borbonica (Fig. 187), is not suitable for table 

 decoration, but single, well-grown plants are in great demand for pedestals in rooms, 

 hotels, and restaurants. It is one of the easiest of all to grow, and in the vicinity of 

 London, ridge and furrow glazed structures covering nearly an acre of ground have 

 been seen, to a large extent filled with this one kind of palm, in heights ranging from 



1 foot to 6 feet. Areca 

 Baueri is also a bold, 

 robust kind, and much 

 grown for the markets. 

 Phcenix reclinata is 

 bought up somewhat 

 closely, and this grace- 

 ful, strong - growing 

 species should receive 

 more attention at the 

 hands of market 

 growers. There is 

 only a limited demand 

 for Corypha australis 

 and Chaniffirops ex- 

 celsa. They are among 

 the hardiest of palms, 

 but somewhat coarse 

 and stiff in appear- 

 ance. Areca lutescens is a tall- growing, elegant species, but has been largely super- 

 seded by kentias, as has the once-popular Seaforthia elegans. 



Prices for palms do not vary greatly while they are in small pots. It is when 

 they are in 8-inch and larger sizes that the differences are most observable. Kentias in 

 particular prove their greater value when those stages are reached, partly because they 

 have been slower in attaining to a large size. Only those raisers who have been excep- 

 tionally successful in germinating a large purchase of seeds care to sell palms in very 

 small pots. The prices obtained for two-year-old plants average about 50s. per 100. 

 In 5-inch pots the price for well-furnished plants ranges from 12s. to 15s. per dozen; 



Fig, 18. r >. Cocos Weddelliana. 



