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Cocos in California.—After passing through a severe test during the first week in January of the year 1913, the several species of Cocos palms are in a condition in which one may safely judge of their comparative hardiness. In the Cocos palms found in local gardens are two very distinct groups. These two groups may each contain but one species having several varieties, or they may consist of several species as they are known "in the trade," and it is upon the latter basis they are here dealt with. (1) The dwarf group is commonly and widely represented by the one known as C. australis and the other and less-known kinds are catalogued as C. Alphonsi, C. Bonnettii, C. campestris, C. Gaertneri, and C. Yatay. Occasionally two others, C. odorata and C. pulposa, are listed. All those named are quite hardy and may safely be planted from Los Angeles to San Francisco without fear of losing them through freezing, though in places some may get "scorched" while young. With age all become quite hardy. (2) To a taller and more striking group, belong those of which C. plumosa is the best known and, unfortunately, most widely planted type. These are C. botryophora, C. coronata, C. Datil, C. flexuosa, C. plumosa, and C. Ramanzoffiana. Of these six four have proved quite tender and three quite hardy, the latter lot resistant to at least a half-dozen degrees more of cold than the former. The tender ones are: C. botryophora, C. coronata, C. plumosa, and C. Romamoffiana. Those proving hardy over all of southern California in 1913 were C. Datil and C. flexuosa, the latter the only one at all common. To these may be added the true C. australis, not known here in the trade at all, a tall-growing species, and not the dwarf one commonly sold under this name. J. Harrison Wright, of Riverside, has grown this novel species and assures the writer of its hardiness in his garden where C. plumosa succumbs in comparatively mild winters. These notes are based upon a close study of these species and varieties as observed during the past few winters in the gardens of Los Angeles and Pasadena in Southern California. (Ernest Braunton.) | Cocos in California.—After passing through a severe test during the first week in January of the year 1913, the several species of Cocos palms are in a condition in which one may safely judge of their comparative hardiness. In the Cocos palms found in local gardens are two very distinct groups. These two groups may each contain but one species having several varieties, or they may consist of several species as they are known "in the trade," and it is upon the latter basis they are here dealt with. (1) The dwarf group is commonly and widely represented by the one known as C. australis and the other and less-known kinds are catalogued as C. Alphonsi, C. Bonnettii, C. campestris, C. Gaertneri, and C. Yatay. Occasionally two others, C. odorata and C. pulposa, are listed. All those named are quite hardy and may safely be planted from Los Angeles to San Francisco without fear of losing them through freezing, though in places some may get "scorched" while young. With age all become quite hardy. (2) To a taller and more striking group, belong those of which C. plumosa is the best known and, unfortunately, most widely planted type. These are C. botryophora, C. coronata, C. Datil, C. flexuosa, C. plumosa, and C. Ramanzoffiana. Of these six four have proved quite tender and three quite hardy, the latter lot resistant to at least a half-dozen degrees more of cold than the former. The tender ones are: C. botryophora, C. coronata, C. plumosa, and C. Romamoffiana. Those proving hardy over all of southern California in 1913 were C. Datil and C. flexuosa, the latter the only one at all common. To these may be added the true C. australis, not known here in the trade at all, a tall-growing species, and not the dwarf one commonly sold under this name. J. Harrison Wright, of Riverside, has grown this novel species and assures the writer of its hardiness in his garden where C. plumosa succumbs in comparatively mild winters. These notes are based upon a close study of these species and varieties as observed during the past few winters in the gardens of Los Angeles and Pasadena in Southern California. (Ernest Braunton.) | ||
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| + | The following are trade names of rare or botanically little-known plants not sufficiently described: C. Alphonsei. — C. Arechacaletana, Barb., is described as somewhat like C. Romanzoffiana but taller and making larger crowns. It is a native of Uruguay. — C. Blumenavi= C. eriospatha. — C. Bonnetii. — C. Gaertneri=(?). — C. Geriea, Hort. G.C. III. 27:293 figures C. Geriva, a remarkable Cocos (?) with 4 branches. Nothing further is known of this plant. It may be C. Geriba, Rodr.= C. botryophora. Mart. — C. Maximiliana, Hort. =(?).—<?. odorata, Rodr. St. short: lfts. in 3's or 5's, linear- lanceolate; petioles spiny: fr. yellowish green or pink, pulp scented. Brazil. R.H. 1893, p. 345.— C. pulposa, is supposed to be very tike C. eriospatha. This species is scarcely known in this country. — C. Yurumajnas=(?). N.Taylor. | ||
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Read about Cocos in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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