Lexicographical Neighbors of Kentia
Literary usage of Kentia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"718), which differ from kentia in having the ovule fastened on the side of the
locule, and more or less pendulous, instead of fastened at the base and erect ..."
2. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1888)
"kentia Moluccana, Beccari. Ternate, at heights up to 3500 feet. This noble and
comparatively hardy palm attains a height of about 90 feet. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Two species of pinnate palms, both of which are useful conservatory plants and
nearly always sold as species of Areca or kentia. Spineless palms with medium ..."
4. Botanical Guide Through the Phipps Conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny by Gustave Guttenberg (1894)
"Wendland's kentia. [A. & s.] These palms are natives of New Guinea, the Madagascar
... Some species of kentia grow farther South than any other palm. ..."
5. Catalogue of Plants in the Two Metropolitan Gardens, the Brisbane Botanic by Frederick Manson Bailey (1885)
"B. sapida, W. et D. (Areca and kentia Sapida) ; tr.; New Zealand. ... F. v M.
(kentia Mooreana); tr.; Lord Howe's Island. ..."
6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Both appear to have Blume, of the ovule pendulous from the apex, whilst in kentia
it is erect from the overlooked the important exceptional character of ..."
7. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"From kentia, and apsis, a resemblance ; on account of its likeness to kentia.
Nat. ... A genus of very pretty Palms, closely allie.l to kentia. ..."
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