This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
" G. G. A.," Geneva, N. Y., writes: "A friend has in his grounds an elegant palm (Seaforthea elegans) 14 to 16 feet high and thirteen or fourteen years old. The trunk is about six feet high above the tub before throwing out the fronds. It is getting almost too high to be housed with facility. Will the palm throw out leaves again if cut off anywhere below the present top? Can it be cut back in any way so as to secure foliage lower down? It is hard to abandon such a beautiful specimen." [Palms seldom, if ever, put out leaves when headed back. In cases where palms, yuccas, and the like have become too large for the house, a keg of earth or wet moss is kept around the stem at any selected height, into which the plant will root, when it may be cut off below, and thus we get a shorter stem. - Ed. G. M.]
 
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