New, Rare and Beautiful Plants. 
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III. 
Palavs. 
Including all the various types of Palms, Cyclantnaceas and Cycadeas. 
A CLASS of plants especially noted for their majestic and very imposing character, and rightly called the mon- 
archs of the vegetable kingdom. They are of great decorative value. Their grand appearance, their mag- 
nificent foliage, and their universally graceful and imposing habit distinguish them from all other plants. 
No collection is complete without Palms ; they are unrivaled for the decoration of greenhouses and con- 
servatories, p.irlors and halls, and many establishments have stately structures used especially as Palm 
houses. Twenty years ago but few varieties of Palms were to be found in collections, as gardeners then generally 
supposed them difficult to cultivate, but now we find large numbers of species and varieties of Palms, Cycads, Zamias, 
etc., in nearly all the prominent gardens. They can be justly recommended for their great usefulness, beauty and easy 
cultivation ; in all modern decorations of chmxhes, public and private festive halls, as well as for floral e.xhibitions, 
handsome specimens of Palms are the main factors, and are indispensable. 
Foreseeing the steadily increasing taste and demand for these noble plants, we prepared our houses and stock for 
it, and, at great e.\pense, continued cultivating and increasing our now unlimiteCl supply. We have added year by 
year a number of new, handsome and distinct species and varieties, and our stock is now of such magnitude that it 
must be seen in order to form the least idea of it. As most of our stock is raised in our own plantations and tropical 
nurseries in Trinidad, West Indies, and cultivated and perfected in our e.\tensive Palm houses at Rose Hill Nurseries, 
New Rochelle, N. Y., we are enabled to supply the trade of the country at most reasonable and popular prices. 
The culture of most species of Palms is comparatively simple. On an average they give less trouble than the 
majority of plants, enduring rough usage, smoke, dust and changes of temperature in most heroic fashion. All the 
species in the following list require for their successful cultivation an average temperature of from 50 to 60 degrees ; 
but when used as decorative plants for greenhouses, conservatories, winter gardens, or even for outdoor decorations, 
will endure without harm an occasional drop to 40 degrees in the temperature. 
•?5 00 
10 00 
ACANTHOPHtKNlX ci'iiiita (.ireca nohilis). A 
Palm of very graceful habit, with fine pinnated fronds. 
The under side of the pinnuUe are a silvery glaucous 
color, and the plant is garnished with long black spines, 
which give it a very decorative appearance. $5 upward. 
ARECA. Fine decorative plants of robust and dwarf 
habit, with strong pinnated fronds. 
A. alba $3 50 to 
A. Baueri {A'ctitia Baiieri) 2 50 to 
A. lutescens. The most beautiful and 
graceful decorative Palm in cultiva- 
tion, with light green, arching, feath- 
ery fronds. See pages 20 and 22 . . i 00 upwards 
A. Madaga.scaricnsis 10 00 to 20 00 
\.monostiu:\\yi\,(Seaforlliia prcrmorsa) 2 00 to 500 
A. rubra. A fine pinnal£;d Palm of high 
decorative value, and with purplish 
shaded foliage i 5° to 
A. sapida 2 00 to 
A. Verschaffeltii. See Hyophorbe Verschaffeltii. 
ARKNGA saccharifera. The true Sugar Palm 
India. I2.50 to $5. 
ASTROOARYUM Ayri. The Muru- 
muru Palm. A very fine pinnated and 
spinous Palm S5 00 to $10 00 
A. argenteum. Leaves silvery under- 
neath 5 00 to 10 00 
3 SO 
5 00 
of 
BRAHEA glauca (KoezUi). A Palm of an exquisite 
habit, with glaucous green fronds. $5 to $10. 
CALAMUS ciliaris. Beautiful and of 
very graceful habit, with colored spines. 
The yaung specimens are unrivaled for 
small decorations and for jardinieres . . $5 00 to $!0 00 
C. Liewisiaiia 5 00 to 10 00 
CARLiUDOVICA. Carludovicas are Cyclanthaceous 
plants, much like the small Latanias in habit. Their 
broad leaves are rich, dark green, and they are very use- 
ful decorative plants, of rapid and easy growth. 
C. palmata $2 00 
C. atrovirens 3 50 
CARYOTA. Caryotas are broad, acute, pinnated Palms 
of majestic habit, with bi-pinnated fronds. The pin. 
nulae are of a peculiar fish-tail-like form, and the spe- 
cies are admirable for decorative uses. 
C. sobolifera $5 00 to $10 00 
C. ureiis I 50 to $5 00 
CERATOZ.VMIA Mexicana. An e-vcellent Cycada- 
ceous plant of hardy nature, much valued for decora, 
tions, and unrivaled for arranging in Palm houses and 
conservatories. $5. 
CEROXYLiON neveum. The Wax Palm from the 
Andes; of very striking character, with beautiful, broad 
foliage, silvery underneath ; very fine and of imposing 
habit. 557.50 to §20. 
