"... In the Park are growing many Cabbage Palms. This species of Palm grow a body as of spikes [drawing of trunk] but as the tree gets older they split + drop off [drawing of frond] leaving a tree of nearly uniform Diam with a handsome appearance [drawing of cabbage palm] the small Palm only grows about waist high and is called the Palmetto there is also the Saw Palm I have not yet seen to know. The Japan Plum I see in bloom the bloom about ready to drop it ripens about March or April – the earliest fruit to ripen." -Excerpt from Travel Diary, Jacksonville, Florida dated December 21, 1895
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