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Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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hat thecause of delay in the germination of one ofthe seeds must be an inherent one, and thusenables the distribution of the seed throughtime rather than space. It is not an uncommon thing to find burscontaining three seeds and occasionalh- onewith more. i899) MEEHANS MONTHLY—WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. 53 It is interesting to note that in these in-stances the seeds germinate in the same orderas in the paired seed,—that is the lower first,then the middle, and lastly the upper one. Wm. Stuart, Assistant Botanist, Exp Sta. Lafayette, Ind The Florida Scrub-palm.—In prehistorictimes, palms grew pretty well up to the region it one of its names. This saw will cut flesh orclothing like a knife. It grows in vast quantities on the ocean sideof the Ormond Peninsula. Its main root,from the end of which spreads the group ofleaves, is like a prostrate trunk lying just ontop of the ground or partly buried or justbeneath the surface, and from its under sidesends down perpendicularh numerous rope-
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8CRUB OR SAW PALMETTO. of the North Pole, but are now found thereonh- in a fossil state, having been destroyedduring the ice age. Now, North America hasleft but some half-dozen species, and these,with but one exception,—the Saba I Palmetto—are confined to our extreme southern borders.The one herewith illustrated is the FloridaScrub-Palm, Bralica scrriilata, or Sabal serru-lata of the last generation. The sharp saw on the edge of the leaf gives like roots from a quarter to three-quarters inchin diameter and often ten feet long. Occasion-al h^, a -part of the main root rears its head afew feet above the ground, but this only in wetplaces or where a great many crowd together.The root is rich in tannin, salt and potash; theleaf has a valuable fiber and the flower is oneof the best and most generous honey blossomsknown. The groups of the leaves are pictur-esque features in the Florida landscape and yet 54 MEEHANS MONTHLY—WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. (April the Florida settler, in wrestli

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