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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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gh some varieties growin more northern climates. Though it is onthe decline, the family is still large, numberingabout 1,100 different species. They are dividedinto two great classes; one is the fan palm,with leaves looking like huge palm-leaf fanssplit into slender strips often forty feet inlength, the other, the feather palm, with leavesresembling uncurled ostrich plumes, sometimesas long as twenty feet. Among the fan palmsthe most familiar are the cabbage palmetto ofSouth Carolina, the Washington palm of theCalifornia deserts and the palmyra palm of In-dia and Ceylon. The cocoanut palm and datepalm are the commonest types of the feathery-leafed class. The name palm itself comes fromthe fact that the leaf of the fan palm looks likethe outspread hand. PALM 4462 PALM Habits of Growth. Most of the members ofthe palm family are towering giants, some ofthem reaching heights of eighty to 100 feet,with straight, branchless trunks surmounted bymagnificent tufts or rosettes of waving leaves,
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a-Date Palm b-Cabbaqe Palrneiio^^0$ Of threads of palm was the carpet spunWheieon he kneels when the day is done,And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one ! To him the palm is a gift divine,Wherein all uses of man combine—House and raiment and food and wine ! And, in the hour of his great release,His need of the palm shall only ceaseWith the shroud wherein he lieth in peace. Allah il Allah ! he sings his psalm.On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm ;Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm ! —Whittier : The Pahn-Tree. and sheathed in shaggy masses, composed ofthe dead leaves of other years. The doompalm, cherished by the Arabs, is almost theonly variety possessing a branched stem. Thereare dwarf palms, growing very low; palms thatcreep like vines; and still others, like the rat-tans (or ratans), that have stems hun4reds of feet long and leaves with hooked ends, bymeans of which the plants climb from tree totree. The small greenish or yellowish blossomsthat hang in great clusters on

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