Official guide to the Botanic Gardens, Dominica : illustrated : with an index of the principal plants

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1922

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The Garden

This plant is of interest inasmuch as it is not the flowers themselves that give it its showy appearance, but, as in the Poinsettias and some other plants, the leaves or bracts below the flowers.On either side of the gateway is a specimen of one of the handsomest of palms, Scheelea excelsa, closely allied to, and difficult to distinguish from, the Attaleas, in which genus it was formerly included.Immediately behind the stone boundary wall on the left is a row of Acanthophoenix rubra, a handsome palm from Mauritius and Bourbon, and running parallel with it are a number of trees of Eucalyptus patentinervis, the Bastard Mahogany of Australia, a species recommended for park and street cultivation, on account of its leaves exhaling a pleasant odour.Near by is a fine group of Palms made up of twelve species.Just inside the gate, and flanking the turfed road on either side, will be found : Berry a Ammonilla, a native of Ceylon, the Philippines, and Tropical Australia, noted for its timber, known as Trincomalee wood, and for the showy display made during the flowering and seeding period ; Phoenix rupicola, an ornamental palm of the Himalayas region ; and the gigantic fan-leaved Talipot Palm of Ceylon, Corypha umbraculifera.Proceeding up the turfed road, the visitor passes between the rows of Cabbage palms, Oreodoxa oleracea, a native to the West Indies, and largely grown for ornamental purposes in the shape of avenues.Behind the Cabbage palms, on the left hand side, are several tr…

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