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Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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tropical countries. The wood and leaves areemployed for various economic purposes by the natives of Celebes. In Honolulu this palm is sometimes met with, but is not so com-monly cultivated as Livistona chinensis Mart. The finest specimenscan be seen on Pensacola Street opposite the Makiki cemetery.Scattered trees occur here and there, as on King Street, KeeaumokuStreet, and in the grounds of the Grammar School, the old residenceof Princess Ruth Kelikelani. Livistona chinensis Mart. Chinese Fax Palm. Plate VI. The Chinese Fan Palm is the palm most commonly met within Honolulu. Its trunk is arboreous, gray, nearly a foot in diameterand unarmed. The palmate leaves are of a bright green, thepetioles are furnished with spines at the edge, and copious fibres atthe base. The white flowers are arranged in axillary panicles. Thefruit is a drupe of the size of an olive with glaucous hue andorange-yellow fruit-flesh. It is a native of Eastern Asia, but now most extensivelv cultivated Plate VIII.
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Erythea armata (L.) Watson. Blue Palm, in fruit, on the grounds of Mr. Jordans residence,Wyllie Street. Palmae. 23 for ornamental purposes in all tropical and subtropical countries. InHonolulu nearly every yard has one or more specimens. Livistonaaustral is Mart., a much handsomer palm, is not at all common inHonolulu. The best specimens occur in the Government Nurserygrounds, facing Keeaumoku Street. It differs from the former speciesmainly in the blue, globose seeds, and, as the name implies, is anative of Australia. There are a few other species of Livistona incultivation in Honolulu, single specimens occurring in privategrounds, but as yet not definitely determined. See Plate VII. Erythea armata (L.) Watson. Blue Palm. Plate VIII. The Blue Palm is indigenous in lower California and belongsto a genus of five species. This extremely handsome and ornamentalpalm has often a trunk of more than two feet in diameter in itsnaked portion while the part covered with the old leaves measurese

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