Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-02-17
PALM THAT IS
FIFTY FEET TALL
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A Fare Plant Recently Added
to Collection in New York
Botanical Gardens.
IS GIVEN FIXED POSITION
Is the First to Be Planted in the Soil.
All It's Neighbors Being Potted
or Else Growing in Tubs
or Boxes

New York Times: A number of rare
palms were received last week by the
New York botanical gardens and were
placed on exhibition in the palm house,
the central and largest building of the
conservatory range. Most Of them Were
gifts from private collections, but by far
the largest of the plants was obtained
from the Central park -onservatorie by
exchange.
This palm is a fine specimen of Cocus
Plunosa, which has attained a height OF
Atty feet and threatened TO push It's way
through the roof of the tallest building in
the Central park range of glass houses.
IT has the honor of being the first plant
10 ge given a fixed position In the garden
palm house, ali its ~neighbors being pot
Sed or else growing in large wooden tubs
and boxes, while this plant was long
since found to be too large and a too
vigorous grower to be so treated.
IT required seven men and a derrick to
aIproot II from It's position In the park
Conservatives. but the gardeners OF the
botanical gardens managed to plant 1t in
the palm house without a derrick. The
uprooting, transporting and repianting
required nearly SIX days work. The
plant Is named from the plume-like grace
of It's great leaves, which REMIND one
somewhat OF Tile more ldIuilldI hcIilid
palms, but are fully fifteen feet In length.
The palm was, planted directly in the
soil and was surrounded with an at
.~tractive bit OF rockwork, which in turn
has been called upon to nourish many
wines. begonias and more typical rock
flowing plants. In its new situation the
fplant will have an opportunity to add
fully thirty feet to its height before ii
begins 10 feel oppressed for space.
TWO Neowashingtonia robusta palms re-
fceived from c.. NJ. Hyde OF Greenwich,
are considered important acquisi-
stions to the garden collection, and attract
much attention. In shape the trunk re-
sembies a great egg, two feet or more in
diameter at the base. with great clusters
of large fan leaves rising from the small
or apex on heavy stems, giving at least
ten feet spread Of foliage.
Mary s. Ames presented 2 fine speci-
men of Acanthoriza aculeata twenty feet
in height, its slender trunk thickly beset
with stout spikes, some Of them fully ten
inches in length. This is another of the
fan palms, the leaves more deeply fringed
than most Of the varieties 1t came from
the donors Conservatives in North Eas-
ton, Mass.
I or four palms presented by Geraldyn'
Redmond, the most important is the
Phoenix dactylifera, a date palm ten feet
IN NtlBnt. seven cdcll, among JneHu some
fine examples Of the Peruvianus mon
strosus. nearly six fet in height. We're also
included in the collection from Miss Red
mond's Conservatives at Tivoli, n. Y.
Although this cactus has been a favor
lite in private c~onseryatorie for Jome
years. very few as large specimens are
a~ttainable. They bear handsome pink
white flowers, five inches or more across
the face. The peculiar and frequent in
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gives IL the appearance OF being made up
lof a succession of short joints. and the
singular appearance OF the rlant COM
.mands attention at all times.