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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ant is only four feet high, and it has a naked stema foot long, by one and a half inches in diameter, with anonion-like base. The leaves are a yard long by two feetacross ; the pinnae are smooth, pointed, dark green on bothsides ; the petiole channeled and covered with gray fur-furaceous scales. The female spadix is slender, four feetlong, with an elegant panicle, bearing pea-like fruits of abright scarlet color. These remain on the plant severalmonths, and as they are ornamental they add considerablyto the beauty of the plant. Mr. Wendland, of Hanover,informs me that he has obtained several crops of perfectseeds from his plants by placing the male inflorescenceupon the female plant when in flower. This Palm is aselegant as Geonoma gracilis and as sturdy as a Kentia. Itdeserves to take a prominent place among garden Palms, *This is the Hamamelis arborea of Masters (Gardeners Chronicle. iSwhich is referred by Hooker to H. Japonica. Ii, 216, f. 38), June 3, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 257
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Fig. 45-—Hamamelis Japonica.—See page 256. its small size, free habit, elegance, good constitution, being According to Hildebrandt it ultimately forms a tree six all in its favor, while in the freedom with which it flowers to eight feet high, and it grows on the mountains of and produces seed we have an exceptional character Comoro at an elevation of about 4,000 feet, among dwarf Palms. Kew. W. Watson. 258 Garden and Forest. (Number 171-. Foreign Correspondence.London Letter. ALONG and exceptionally trying winter has at last come toan end, and has been succeeded by weather which, forwarmth and brightness, equals anything we usually experiencehere in midsummer. Nearly a fortnight of this excessivewarmth has produced a change in the garden quite magicalin its suddenness, for the gloomy appearance worn by everytree and shrub and herb a fortnight ago has given place to awealth of healthy green leaves and gay flowers everywhere,Never were the orchards of the London market-gardeners soh

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