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Updated: May 8, 2025
We chanced to see in the patio of a private dwelling-house at Toluca a specimen of that little tropical gem, the coral-tree, a curious and lovely freak of vegetation, its small but graceful stem, six or seven feet in height, being topped above the pendent, palm-shaped foliage with a prominent bit of vegetable coral of deepest red, precisely in the form of the Mediterranean sea-growth from which it takes its name.
On the day that the silver-laced maple, then in fullest leaf, had passed by the space of three delicate palm-shaped banners the sill of the third-story office window, Lessing, of Weatheral, Lessing & Co., Brokers in Real Estate, crossed over to his partner's desk before sitting down at his own, and remained quietly leaning against it and looking out of the window without a word.
"I do seem to be asking about a million questions, don't I?" she responded good naturedly. "The rose leaf is feather-shaped and the horse-chestnut is palm-shaped," Ethel Blue thought aloud, frowning delicately as she spoke. "They're like those different kinds of veining." "That's it exactly," commended her cousin.
"Or the web foot of a duck," suggested Dorothy. "I should think all the leaves that have a feather-shaped framework would be long and all the palm-shaped ones would be fat," guessed Della. "They are, and they have been given names descriptive of their shape. The narrowest kind, with the same width all the way, is called 'linear." "Because it's a line more or less," cried James.
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