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SIEBRECHT & SONS, NEW YOKK. 
PALMS. 
Including all the various types of Palms, Cyclanthaceas and Cycadeas. 
A CLASS of plants especially noted for their majestic and very imposing character, and rightly called 
the monarchs of the vegetable kingdom. They are of great decorative value. Their grand ap- 
pearance, their magnificent foliage, and their universally graceful and imposing habit distinguish 
them from all otlier plants. No collection is complete without Palms ; they are unrivaled for the 
decoration of greenhouses and conservatories, parlors 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 
churches, public and private festive lialls, as well as for floral exhibitions, handsome specimens of Palms are 
the main factors, and are indispensable. 
Our house ol Kentia Belmoreana, 20 .\ 240 feet, showing the greatest stock of this Palm in the United States. 
Foreseeing the steadily increasing taste and demand for these noble plants, we prepared our houses and 
stock for it, and, at great expense, continued cultivating and increasing our now unlimited 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 porfoctod in our 
extensive Palm houses at Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochello, 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. 
