The date palm is a beautiful tree.

I think I have described thisto me'miraculum' simply enough to be understood by the non-scientific reader, if only he or she have first learned the undoubted factknown, I find, to very few 'educated' English peoplethat the coco-palm which produces coir- rope, and coconuts, and a hundred other useful things, is not the same plant as the cacao-bush which produces chocolate, nor anything like it.

The palm was a symbol of victory, and branches of it were strewn in the path of conquerors, more especially of those who had fought for religious truth.

[Fr.]; for authors nobler palms remain [Pope]; I lived to write and wrote to live [Rogers]; look in thy heart and write [Sidney]; there is no Past so long as Books shall live [Bulwer Lytton]; the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers

I caught from her lips a murmured "yes," And the stately palms amid There came a blissful, sweet caress I shouldn't havebut I did!

Around many cocoanut-palms were bands of tin or zinc ten or twenty feet from the earth.

To the tropical man the cocoa-palm is life and luxury.

So be the morrow's sweat and labour mine, The palm and honour of the conquest thine: Then shall the war, and stern debate, and strife Immortal, be the business of my life; 340 And in thy fane, the dusty spoils among, High on the burnish'd roof, my banner shall be hung: Rank'd with my champions' bucklers, and below, With arms reversed, the achievements of my foe:

But 'the cocoanut-palm is the most valuable of Nature's gifts to the inhabitants of those parts of the tropics where it grows, and its hundred uses, as they are not inaptly called, extend beyond the tropics over the civilized world.

And your palms, soles, and face are ruddy.