. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. PHOENIX RECLINATA. (See page 48.) FH(ENIX, continued. and the sap furnishing the palm-sugar. The tree is first tapped when about ten years old, and thereafter for from twenty to fifty years. One plant will produce, it is said, about eight pounds of date sugar annually. 50,000 tons of sugar are produced in Bengal alone, annually, from this and ot

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. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Florida Catalogs; Tropical plants Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Citrus fruit industry Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. PHOENIX RECLINATA. (See page 48.) FH(ENIX, continued. and the sap furnishing the palm-sugar. The tree is first tapped when about ten years old, and thereafter for from twenty to fifty years. One plant will produce, it is said, about eight pounds of date sugar annually. 50, 000 tons of sugar are produced in Bengal alone, annually, from this and other palms. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen. P. tenuis.* The most excellent of all Phcenices, when small. Resembles P. dactylifcra some- what, but is more delicate and firm in all its parts. Its color, too, is a pleasing green, and has more of the blue tinge common to the ordinary date. A magnificent decorative plant, and a fitting companion to Kentias, or Seaforlhia elcgans. Hardy, and should be planted out-doors in Florida. 22 cents each, §3.50 per dozen. P. Zeylanica.* A dwarf grower, of beautiful reclinate habit. Color green, slightly tinged with a bluish cast. The most hardy of all the species of Phoenix yet planted out here. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen. BAPHIS flabelliformis.* China and Japan. A hai'dy little cane Palm, which suckers from the roots like the bamboo, and forms a dense clump of canes. A delicate and graceful little plant, only three or four feet in height when full-grown. 75 cen ts to S3 each. SABAL Adansonii^ (Corypha minor). The Dwarf Pal.metto of Georgia and Florida. The stem is short, very slow growing, and entirely underground. Leaves of a dark, rich green, reaching a height of four to six feet, with smooth edged petioles, in which they differ from the Saw Palmetto. The graceful flower- spike rises above the leaves to a height of six or seven feet. This Palm resists severe cold unharmed, even as low as 10 to 17 degrees Fahrenheit. A favorite dwarf Palm in g