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PATM BRIEFS Chrysahid,ocarpus lutescens, lost some leaves. The oil palm, Elaeis guineensis, lii My Polms is still struggling for life. All the coco- two. Teddie Buhler has asked me to write nuts came through except iii losing the female about my palms. I am happy to live I felt really sorry at rrith them. In I94I, when my husband Salacca. I had brought two seedsfrom my world tour and I bought the four-acre high pine Bogor, Java, collectedon in 1968. The land in Kendall, south of Miami, F"lorida with The Palm Society is lonesome. for a fruit farm we started with a mango male survived,but When I look back on our start in 1943 grove and about 30 varieties of tropical "to moved the land," fruits (important,as we arevegetarians). I can say that we pine to live on, but We also planted flowering trees and High land is healthy get growing palms. it is hard work to something and limestone rock. A We lined the entrance road with coco- in white sand nut palms (Cocos nucifera), made a water system was the first thing we and rondelwith'Malayan Dwar{' and'Maka- needed,then humus from seaweed, That it. puno' coconuts, the latter with jellylike organic {ertilizer. did after we had meat. One-hal{ acre we left natural, with The first Christmas pines, palmettos, and coral rock, for electricity Alf, my husband, climbed a tall pine and put light bulbs among the protection and firewood. In January- planted February L977 we surely needed fire- twigs. Later we a cedar in the parking nood. Two frost nights with 25 and 30 area and lighted it. It is now a pines. degreesF did a lot of damage to our marvelous tree as tall as our palms. Long icicles sparkled in the Since Alf's death in 1961 I take care palms morning sun where the sprinklers had of our farm and the with two been running all night. faithful helpers. On November l8th, It was a sad sight, as we walked 1978" at The Palm Society meeting at through the garden at that time. The the A. R. Jennings estate, we saw the private palm In rich fishtail palm (Caryota urens) disap- largest collection. palms grow the peared, though C. mitis had some life. natural soil happily to hard to live, All the taller palms, such as Roystoneq. sky, while ours struggle so and r egia, Washingt onia, A r ecastrum r otnan- even with much attention water. They are still a wonder to me in their zoflianum (Cocos plumosa), Veitchia merrilhii and,V. winin, Neod,ypsis,Liai- majesty and beauty. stona, Coccothrinax, Dictyospenna, Cry- osophila nana,H yophorbe .(Mascarena), Er,sn M.s.ncRArr, age Bl Balaka, Phoenix reclinata, P. roebelenii, November l97B