He gazed at it in the palm of his hand.
Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins?
He looked at the emerald in his palm.
She rested her chin on her palm, elbow on the table, and stared at him.
Connor stared at two deep gashes in his palm.
She focused on mixing dish soap and lemon juice in her palm.
Fingers caressed her hand gently and then slipped over her palm.
A small hourglass with black sand was in his palm.
The machete felt heavy in her sweating palm.
He placed something small in her palm.
She gasped and pulled away, but not before his thumb grazed her calloused palm.
The Original Other looked at her and raised his hand, lightening forming in his palm.
Among the plants the wild banana, pepper, orange and mangosteen, rhododendron, epiphytic orchids and the palm; among mammals the bats and rats; among birds the cassowary and rifle birds; and among reptiles the crocodile and tree snakes, characterize this element.
With the date palm it is believed to have furnished the rafters for the buildings of Nineveh.
His fingers caressed her palm warmly and then he brushed the hair away from her cheek.
She traced her fingertips over his wide palm.
She took his hand and kissed his palm.
The phenomenon is, in fact, very like that of the fermentation of palm wine and pulque, where the juices are obtained from artificial cuts.
There were three sets of numbers written in green ink on his palm.
Alex brought one hand up toward his mouth and brought it down to an upturned palm.
He reached into his pocket and withdrew a small black pouch, pouring its contents—two green gems holding the dust of human souls—into his palm.
There are basically two main types of palm trees.
He touched her cheek with a roughened palm.
Rubber and palm oil are natural forest products of the coastal zone.
Date palm meal is obtained from the stem of a small species, Phoenix farinifera, growing in the hill country of southern India.
The milk is then carefully dried by turning the mould round and round in the smoke produced by burning wood mixed with certain oily palm nuts; those of A ttalea excelsa are considered best, the smoke being confined within certain limits by the narrowness of the neck of the pot in which the nuts are heated.
This is then poured into the hollowed-out trunk of a tree, where it is allowed to stand covered with palm leaves for about a fortnight.
All the islands are richly clothed with palm trees and flowering underwood.
In commercial importance Iloilo ranks next to Manila among Philippine cities; it has manufactures of pina, jusi, coconut oil, lime, vinegar and various articles made from palm wood.
The coast and tide-water rivers are fringed with mangrove, and the sandy plain reaching back to the margin of the inland plateau is generally bare of vegetation, though the carnahuba palm (Copernicia cerifera) and some species of low-growing trees are to be found in many places.
The sea-coast, bays and tide-water rivers are still fringed with mangrove, and on the sandy shores above Cape Frio grow large numbers of the exotic cocoa-nut palm.
The fruit of the pupunha or peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) is an important food among the Indians of the Amazon valley, where the tree was cultivated by them long before the discovery of America.
The assai (Euterpe oleracea) is another highly-prized palm because of a beverage made from its fruit along the lower Amazon.
A closely-related species or variety (Euterpe edulis) is the well-known palmito or cabbage palm found over the greater part of Brazil, whose terminal phylophore is cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
Another highly useful palm is the carnauba or carnahuba (Copernicia cerifera) which supplies fruit, medullary meal, food for cattle, boards and timber, fibre, wax and medicine.
Vegetable wax, which is an excellent substitute for beeswax, is a product of the carnahuha palm (Copernicia cerifera), and is an important export from Ceara.
Palm, or piassava fibre, derived from the piassava palm, is used in the manufacture of brooms, brushes, &c. It is found as far south as southern Bahia, and the export could be very largely increased.
It includes a herbarium and palm house, with an extensive range of hot-houses, a museum of economic botany, a lecture-room and other requisites for the study of botany.
But the most striking of the coast-belt flora are the tropical forms - the palm, mangrove, wild banana (Strelitzia augusta), tree-ferns, tree euphorbia, candelabra spurge and Caput medusae.
Palms grow everywhere; among them the coco-nut palm (Cocos nucifera) is the most prominent.
Hemp and flax had an importance, lost between 1827 and 1849, but responsible in 1792 for fairs on Saturday and Monday before Palm Sunday.
One is an inscription in the rocky valley of Hammamat, through which the desert road from the Red Sea to the valley of Egypt opens on the green fields and palm groves of the river Nile near Coptos..
Theodulf was the author of at least part of the hymn for Palm Sunday, the Gloria laws.
In 1910 the export of palm kernels was 6,141 tons, of palm oil 2,160 tons; in 1916 the figures were 22,391 tons and 3,852 tons respectively.
From 1914 onward copper and palm kernels and oil were the chief exports.
Apart from the sugar-cane and the beet, which are dealt with in detail below, a brief reference need only be made here to maple sugar, palm sugar and sorghum sugar.
Hanifa is its principal watercourse; its course is marked by an almost continuous series of palm groves and settlements, among which Deraiya the former, and Riad the present, capital of the Ibn Saud kingdom are the most extensive.
Among fruit trees the vine, apricot, peach, apple, quince, fig and banana are cultivated in the highlands, and in the lower country the date palm flourishes, particularly throughout the central zone of Arabia, in Hejaz, Nejd and El Hasa, where it is the prime article of food.
The stony plains which cover so large a part of the country are often covered with acacia jungle, and in the dry water-courses a kind of wild palm, the dom, abounds, from the leaves of which baskets and mats are woven.
A large part of the surface is covered with virgin forest, consisting of screw-pines, palm trees, tree ferns, canariums, &c. The fauna is altogether Papuan.
The company formed to execute his project became simply an agricultural concern and by the sinking of artesian wells created an oasis of olive and palm trees.
In these two regions the date palm is never met with growing naturally wild.
The present writer believes that the date palm was really indigenous to this district of the Jerid, as it is to countries of similar description in southern Morocco, southern Algeria, parts of the Tripolitaine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, southern Persia and north-western India; but that north of the latitude of the Jerid the date did not grow naturally in Mauretania, just as it was foreign to all parts of Europe, in which, as in true North Africa, its presence is due to the hand of man.
The date palm grows wild, as has been already related, in Jerba.
The only other species of palm found wild in Tunisia is the Chamaerops humilis, or dwarf.
The palm family is numerous and includes the species producing vegetable ivory (Phytelephas), straw for plaiting Panama hats (Carludovica palmata), and the peach palm (Guilielma speciosa).
The plaiting of Panama hats from the specially prepared fibre of the " toquilla " palm is a domestic industry among the Indians at Catacoas (Piura) and Eten (Lambayeque).
In the fore feet the web not only fills the interspaces between the toes, but extends considerably beyond the ends of the long, broad and somewhat flattened nails, giving great expanse to the foot when used for swimming, though capable of being folded back on the palm when the animal is burrowing or walking on the land.
No faience produced either in China or any other Oriental country can dispute the palm with really representative specimens of Satsuma ware.
Montaigne said of him,"I give the palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning.
Some persons do not even find a clear deep necessary, and are content to gaze at the palm of the hand, for example, when hallucinatory pictures, as they declare, emerge.
The intermediate tract is a region of rich cultivation, dotted with great banyan trees, thickets of bamboos, exquisite palm foliage and mango groves.
Its catkins are collected in England in celebration of Palm Sunday, the bright-coloured flowers being available in early spring when other decorations of the kind are scarce.
Even in Roman times it kept its own coinage with the punning device of the bent arm holding a palm branch, and the head of Aphrodite on the reverse, and continued the use of the Greek language.
The Hyphaene palm is frequent, as well as various kinds of gum-producing mimosas.
The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), miomba, tamarisk, copal tree (Hymenaea courbaril) are frequent, besides sycamores, banyan trees (Ficus indica) and the deleb palm (Borassus aethiopum).
The cultivated products include coffee, the Coco-nut palm, tobacco, sugar-cane, cotton, vanilla, sorghum, earthnuts, sesame, maize, rice, beans, peas, bananas (in large quantities), yams, manioc and hemp. Animal products are ivory, hides, tortoiseshell and pearls.
Twining and spinning were done with the fingers of both hands, with the palm on the thigh, with the spindle and with the twister.
However, looking over the whole field of North American achievement, architectural and non-architectural, composite and monolithic, the palm for boldness, magnitude of proportions and infinity of labour, must go to the sculptured mosaics of Yucatan.
A cattle fair is held annually on Greek Palm Sunday.
Other fairs on the 27th of December, the 22nd of July, and the Monday before Palm Sunday, were held under a charter of 1289.
To the anatomist the roughnesses of the palm are of considerable interest.
A small species of palm is known as the Norfolk Island cabbage.
Native spirits are distilled from the palm, salt is made and fish caught.
A good deal of sugar is also produced from groves of the taxi palm.
Pliny, who flourished under Vespasian, speaks particularly of a male and female palm, but his statements were not founded on any real knowledge of the organs.
The mimosa, the dum palm and the date are abundant.
The agave and prickly pear, the myrtle, the olive and the dwarf palm grow luxuriantly; and the fields are covered with narcissus, iris and other flowers of every hue.
In the Saharan oases the characteristic tree is the date palm - " the king of the desert."
Large quantities of crin vegetal (vegetable horse-hair) an excellent fibre, are made from the leaves of the dwarf palm.
Yet in the next family Alonella nana (Baird) disputes the palm and claims to be the smallest of all known Arthropoda.
The last constitutes a valuable article of commerce in the form of copra, from which palm oil is expressed; the natives make use of this oil in made dishes, and also of the soft half-green kernel and the coco-nut " milk," the clear liquid within the nut.
The most characteristic trees are the coco-nut palm, pandanus and mangrove.
Palma probably owes, if not its existence, at least its name (symbolized on the Roman coins by a palm branch), to Metellus Balearicus, who in 123 B.C. settled three thousand Roman and Spanish colonists on the island.
Thus foot, digit, palm, cubit, stadium, mile, talent, mina, stater, drachm, obol, pound, ounce, grain, metretes, medimrius, modius, hin and many others mean nothing exact unless qualified by the name of their country or city.
The betel nut is the fruit of the Areca or betel palm, Areca Catechu, and the betel leaf is the produce of the betel vine or pan, Chavica Betel, a plant allied to that which yields black pepper.
The Areca palm is a native of the Malay Peninsula and Islands and is extensively cultivated over a wide area in the East, including southern India, Ceylon, Siam, the Malay Archipelago and the Philippine Islands.
Guvacine, named from "guvaca," an Indian designation of the betel palm, forms white crystals.
In some localities the characteristic types of the two climatic extremes, the palm and the pine, are to be found growing side by side.
This struggle for existence has completely changed the habits of some plants, turning the palm and the cactus into climbers, and even some normal species into epiphytes.
The natural and forest products of Mexico include the agave and yucca (ixtle) fibres already mentioned; the " ceibon " fibre derived from the silk-cotton tree (Bombax pentandria); rubber and vanilla in addition to the cultivated products; palm oil; castor beans; ginger; chicle, the gum extracted from the " chico-zapote " tree (Achras sapota); logwood and other dye-woods; mahogany, rosewood, ebony, cedar and other valuable woods; " cascalote " or divi-divi; jalap root (Ipomaea); sarsaparilla (Smilax); nuts and fruits.
The Tropical belt of southern Florida has the royal palm.
His murderers evidently found out their mistake and repented of it, for the bishop's body was found at sea floating in a canoe, covered with a palm fibre matting, and a palm-branch in his hand.
All kinds of trees grow well, from the date palm to the oak; and there are over 200,000 wild olives in the country.
The largest of these traverses the district from Kushalgarh on the Indus to Thal on the Kurram, narrowing in places, but usually opening out into wide cornlands and pastures dotted with the dwarf palm.
The ashes, obtained by burning the palms or their substitutes used in the ceremonial of the previous Palm Sunday, are placed in a vessel on the altar before High Mass.
The trade is very largely centred in the export of palm oil and palm kernels and the import of cotton goods and spirits, mostly gin.
Here the more common European plants and trees give place to the wild olive, the caper bush, the aloe, the cactus, the evergreen oak, the orange, the lemon, the palm and other productions of a tropical climate.
A dangerous bar at the mouth of the river permits the entrance only of the smaller coasting steamers, but the port is an important commercial centre, and exports considerable quantities of cotton, hides, manicoba, rubber, fruit, and palm wax.
The collar of the Star of India is composed of alternate links of the lotus flower, red and white roses and palm branches enamelled on gold, with an imperial crown in the centre; that of the Indian Empire is composed of elephants, peacocks and Indian roses.
The collar, which may be granted with the order or later, is composed of four members repeated, two gold chrysanthemums, one with green leaves, the other surrounded by a wreath of palm, and two elaborate arabesque designs.
The rich oasis of Tyin contains many villages embosomed in palm groves and surrounded with orchards and fields.
For tying plants to trellises and stakes soft tarred string or raffia (the fibre from the Raphia palm of Madagascar) is used.
The principal cultivated plants, apart from sugar-cane and coffee, are rice (in great variety of kinds), the coco-nut palm, the areng palm, the areca and the sago palms, maize, yams, and sweet potatoes; and among the fruit trees are the Indian tamarind, pomegranate, guava, papaw, orange and lemon.
In the Western Church, Palm Sunday 4/counted as the first day of Holy Week, and its ceremonies usher in the series of services, culminating in those of Good Friday, which commemorate the Passion of the Lord.
Branches of palm, olive or sprouting willow (hence in England known as "palm") having been placed before the altar, or at the Epistle side, after Terce and the sprinkling of holy water, the priest, either in a purple cope or an alb without chasuble, proceeds to bless them.
The principal of the clergy present then approaches and gives a palm to the celebrant, who then, in his turn, distributes the branches, first to the principal of the clergy, then to the deacon and subdeacon, and to the other clergy in order of rank, and lastly to the laity, all of whom receive the palms kneeling, and kiss the palm and the hand of the celebrant.
It was natural that olive and willow should have been chosen for the Palm Sunday ceremony, for they are the earliest trees to bud in the spring; their consecration, however, may be explained by the intention to Christianize a pagan belief, and it is easy to see how their mystic virtues came in this way to be ascribed to the palm also.
Of the reformed churches, the Church of England alone includes Palm Sunday in the Holy Week celebrations.
The blessing of the palms and the procession were, however, abolished at the Reformation, and the name "Palm Sunday," though it survives in popular usage, is not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer.
Of the Lutheran churches only that of Brandenburg seems to have kept the Palm Sunday procession for a while.
He reached Rome on Palm Sunday (March 30), only to find his patron ill of a deadly sickness, from which he died on Good Friday (April 4).
North of San Nicholas is Tondo, the most densely populated district; in the suburbs, outside the fire limits, the greater part of the inhabitants live in native houses of bamboo frames roofed and sided with nipa palm, and the thoroughfares consist of narrow streets and navigable streams. Paco, south-west of Intramuros, has some large cigar factories, and a large cemetery where the dead are buried in niches in two concentric circular walls.
A few scattered palms dot the western shores, and a palm grove is to be found near Kefr Harib on the south-east.
The empty fruits (after germination of the seed) are found floating in the Indian Ocean, and were known long before the palm was discovered, giving rise to various stories as to their origin.
Wherever there is any pretence at irrigation, along the banks of the two great rivers and by the few canals which are still in existence, the yield is enormous, and the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Bagdad and Hilla seem to be one great palm garden.
Beyond the walls and the deep moat, especially on the northward side towards the port of Gravosa, are many pleasant villas, surrounded by gardens in which the aloe, palm and cypress are conspicuous among a number of flowering trees and shrubs.
On the north side, embowered in palm trees, is a great statue of Columbus, at whose feet kneels the figure of America.
North of the swamps the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) flourishes abundantly.
Other trees, found chiefly on the plateaus, are the baobab, the shea-butter tree, the locust tree, gambier, palms, including the date and dum palm (Hyphaene), the tamarind, and, in the arid regions, the acacia and mimosa.
Export trade in the delta and forest regions is almost entirely confined to " jungle produce," the most important articles being palm oil and palm kernel.
The quantity of palm oil exported annually exceeds 12.000,000 gallons, and is worth over £600,000.
Steps have been taken to stimulate the native industry, and it is hoped that cotton may take the place in Northern Nigeria which palm oil and kernels occupy in the coast zone.
Cowries (moo =3d.) are still occasionally employed, and on the coast, accounts are sometimes kept in gallons of palm oil.
After the abolition of the slave-trade in the 19th century palm oil formed the staple article of commerce, and the various streams which drain the Niger coast near the mouth of the great river became known as the " Oil Rivers."
This is especially the case where there is also shade to protect them from the midday sun, as in some of the narrow ravines in the eastern desert and in the palm groves of the oases, where various ferns and flowers grow luxuriantly round the springs.
The principal fruit trees were the date palm, useful also for its wood and fibre, the pomegranate, fig and fig-sycamore.
A trap for animals legs, formed by splints of palm stick radiating round a central hole, is figured in S.D.
He added that Dalmeny "desired the palm without the dust."
Besides rubber, the forests produce a great variety of cabinet and construction woods, ivory-nuts (from the " tagua " palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa), " toquilla " fibre (Carludovica palmata) for the manufacture of so-called Panama hats, cabbage palms, several species of cinchona, vanilla and dyewoods.
The dom palm, tamarisk, acacia and wild senna are also found.
Besides agriculture the only industry is basket and mat making - from palm leaves and fibre.
Kharga town (pop. 1907 census, 5362) is picturesquely situated amid palm groves.
The gardens of Los Molinos, where the captainsgeneral formerly maintained their summer residence, and the adjoining botanical gardens of the university, contain beautiful avenues of palm trees.
The betel-nut or areca palm is chiefly grown in certain favoured localities, such as the deltaic districts of Bengal and the highlands of southern India.
The dwelling-places of the natives are usually small huts of the simplest constuction, used chiefly as sleeping apartments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves.
The chief exports are coffee, rubber, wax, palm kernels and palm-oil, cattle and hides and dried or salt fish.
The making of Panama hats from the fibre of the "toquilla" palm is a household industry.
The jasmine, almond, banana, cork and coco-nut palm are among the trees.
The rich soil of the lowlands of the province of Laguna is especially well adapted to the culture of the coco-nut palm, and since the American occupation considerable land in this province that had formerly been devoted to sugar has been planted with these trees.
Hats are made of palm leaves, alaca leaves, banana leaves, split bamboo and various grasses.
Its large variety of trees and shrubs, including oak, hickory, elm, maple, chestnut, birch, ash, cedar, pine, larch and sumach, its flower gardens, a palm house, ponds, a lake of 61 acres for boating, skating and curling, a parade ground of 40 acres for other athletic sports, a menagerie, and numerous pieces of statuary, are among its objects of interest or beauty.
The chief products are rubber, brought from the interior, and palm oil and palm kernels, obtained in the coast regions.
The rubber is mainly exported to England, the palm products to Germany, and the ground-nuts to France.
Wargla lies in an oasis containing many palm trees.
In the Marshalls, in place of these stones, certain palm trees are similarly enclosed.
Among the Pagurinea is the Birgus latro, or robber-crab, whose expertness in climbing the coco-nut palm need no longer be doubted, since in recent years it has been noted and photographed by trustworthy naturalists in the very act.
A special interest attaches to the dwellings of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, and Johann Palm, the patriotic bookseller who was shot by order of Napoleon in 1806.
On Palm Sunday 1282, in a time of peace, David suddenly attacked and burnt Hawarden Castle, whereupon all Wales was up in arms. Edward, greatly angered and now bent on putting an end for ever to the independence of the Principality, hastened into Wales; but whilst the king was campaigning in Gwynedd, Prince Llewelyn himself was slain in an obscure skirmish on the 11th of December 1282 at Cefn-ybedd, near Builth on the Wye, whither he had gone to rouse the people of Brycheiniog.
In earlier times the coquito palm (Jubaea spectabilis) was to be found throughout this part of Chile, but it has been almost completely destroyed for its saccharine sap, from which a treacle was made.
The soil is thin and porous and does not retain moisture, consequently the long, dry season turns the country into a barren desert, relieved only by vegetation along the river courses and mountain ranges, and by the hardy, widelydistributed carnahuba palm (Copernicia cerifera),which in places forms groves of considerable extent.
Other palm trees found are the date, bamboo, palmyra, coco and dom.
The chief export is palm kernels, the amount of palm oil exported being comparatively slight.
Next to palm products the most valuable articles exported are kola-nuts - which go largely to neighbouring French colonies - rubber and ginger.
Rice, maize, cocoa-nuts, sugar-cane and a variety of fruits are grown; and some tobacco is exported to Europe; but by far the most important production is the sago palm, which grows abundantly in the swampy districts, especially of Eastern Ceram, and furnishes a vast supply of food, not only to Ceram itself, but to other islands to the east.
The species of palm are also reduced to two or three, and bamboos, though abundant, are confined to a few species.
This deflection of water has also seriously interfered with the palm groves, the cultivation of which constitutes a large part of the industry of the surrounding country along the river.
The Portuguese troubadours belonged to all social classes, and even included a few priests, and though love was their favourite topic they used every kind of verse, and in satire they hold the palm.
But the work that holds the palm in its class is the Peregrinagao which Fernao Mendes Pinto, the famous adventurer, composed in his old age for his children's reading.
Among foreign studies the palm must be given to the " Geschichte der portugiesischen Litteratur " by the eminent scholar, Mme lIichatlis de Vasconcellos, in the Grundriss der rom.
The date palm fruits well; figs grow luxuriantly, though requiring much irrigation; almonds do well if protected from spring frosts; seaisland cotton grows in the finest grades, but is not of commercial importance.
It supplied a birthplace to Apollo and Artemis, who were born beneath a palm tree beside its sacred lake, and became for ever sacred to these twin deities.
The islands are generally low, and covered with forest, in which the cocoanut palm is conspicuous.
He thrusts his staff into the ground; whereupon it sprouts into a date palm, and thousands are converted.
After spending a year and a half in England, during which time, besides his book on the Amazon, he published a small volume on the Palm Trees of the Amazon, he started for the Malay Archipelago, exploring, observing and collecting from 1854 to 1862.
To the south-west of the picturesque belts of palm trees which stretch inland from the northern coast of Bahrein, is a wide space of open sandy plain filled with gigantic tumuli or earth mounds, of which the outer layers of gravel and clay have been hardened by the weather action of centuries to the consistency of conglomerate.
Thus the Chalk appears to run in four diverging fingers from the centre or palm on Salisbury Plain, other formations lying wedge-like between them.
At the LeMoyne crematory established here by Dr Francis Julius LeMoyne,' on the 6th of December 1876, took place the first public cremation in the United States; the body burned was that of Baron Joseph Henry Louis de Palm (1809-1876), a Bavarian nobleman who had emigrated to the United States in 1862 and had been active in the Theosophical Society in New York.
The houses are built of hardened mud, with doors and roof of palm wood.
Peculiar to the maritime zone are mangoes and the coco-nut palm.
In the former the bow with vegetable string is the chief weapon, and clothing is woven from palm fibre; in the east spears are found, and in the Welle district swords and throwing-knives also; clothing made from skins also makes its appearance, and more attention is paid to the shades of departed ancestors.
Palm oil, palm nuts, white copal, coffee, cocoa, rice, earth-nuts and timber are next in importance among the exports.
Durra, ground-nuts, yams and cotton are the principal products, and the palm and banana abound.
Among the many varieties of trees and plants found are the date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, the myrrh and other gum trees (gnarled and stunted, these flourish most on the eastern foothills), a magnificent pine (the Natal yellow pine, which resists the attacks of the white ant), the fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana and other fruit trees; the grape vine (rare), blackberry and raspberry; the cotton and indigo plants, and occasionally the sugar cane.
In 3579 John Pakington obtained a grant of two annual fairs to be held on the day before Palm Sunday and on the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, and a Monday market for the sale of horses and other animals, grain and merchandise.
His merit lies in the fact that he was the first to deal systematically with the question of Church and State, and the position thus taken up by him, and the manner in which that position was assumed, gave rise to a lifelong conflict between Giannone and the Church; and in spite of his retractation in prison at Turin, he deserves the palm--as he certainly endured the sufferings - of a confessor and martyr in the cause of what he deemed historical truth.
Of these the best known is the Lodoicea sechellarum, a palm tree indigenous only in Praslin Island - but since introduced into Curieuse - noted for its fruit, the so-called Maldive double coco-nut or coco de mer.
This palm will grow to a height of 100 ft., and shows enormous fern-like leaves.
Owing to increased competition, and in some degree to careless harvesting, there was a great fall in prices after 1900, and the Seychellois, though still producing vanilla in large quantities, paid greater attention to the products of the coconut palm - copra, soap, coco-nut oil and coco-nuts - to the development of the mangrove bark industry, the collection of guano, the cultivation of rubber trees, the preparation of banana flour, the growing of sugar canes, and the distillation of rum and essential oils.
On the eastern plains are to be found the "miriti" (Mauritia flexuosa) and the "pirijao" or peach palm (Guilielma speciosa), called the "pupunha" on the Amazon, whose fruit, fibre, leaf, sap, pith and wood meet so large a part of the primary needs of the aborigines.
A noteworthy palm of the eastern Andean slopes is the "corneto" (Deckeria), whose tall, slender trunk starts from the apex of a number of aerial roots, rising like a cone 6 to 8 ft.
Extensive groves of the coco-nut palm are to be found on the Caribbean coast, the fruit and fibre of which figure among the national exports.
It is a tall slender palm, and is the source of the vegetable wax so largely used in some parts of the country in the manufacture of matches, a single stem sometimes yielding 16-20 lb.
Humboldt says it is not the "palma real" of Cuba (Oreodoxa regia), but in the Rio Sinn region is the Cocos butyracea, or the "palma dolce," from which palm wine is derived.
Another palm of much economic importance in Colombia is the "tagua" (Phytelephas macrocarpa),which grows abundantly in the valleys of the Magdalena, Atrato and Patia, and produces a large melon-shaped fruit in which are found the extremely hard, fine-grained nuts or seeds known in the commercial world as vegetable ivory.
The Colombian "Panama hat" is made from the fibres extracted from the ribs of the fanshaped leaves of still another species of palm, Carludovica palmata, while in the Rio Sinn region the natives make a kind of butter ("manteca de Corozo") from the Elaeis melanococca, Mart., by peeling the nuts in water and then purifying the oil extracted in this way by boiling.
Hat-making from the "jipijapa" fibre taken from the Carludovica palm is a domestic industry in many localities, and furnishes an article of export.
Friction matches are made from the vegetable wax extracted from the Ceroxylon palm, and are generally used throughout the interior.
The coco palm flourishes freely even in the north, and is to be found growing in clumps with the Pinus sinensis.
He taught law subsequently at Pisa, at Florence, at Padua and at Pavia, at a time when the schools of law in those universities disputed the palm with the school of Bologna.
Jewish shekels were first coined by Simon the Hasmonean, probably in 139-138 B.C. These bear inscriptions in the archaic Hebrew and various emblems, such as the cup or chalice, the lily branch with three flowers, the candlestick, the citron and palm branch and so forth.
If Lord Palm erston had been supported by his cabinet, or if he had been a younger man, he might possibly, in 1864, have made good the words which he had rashly uttered in 1863.
But the beauty of the island and its ruins and palm trees, the joy of travellers and artists, is almost gone.
On returning to Rome, he was cordially received by the newly elected pontiff Nicolas IV., who gave him communion on Palm Sunday, 1288, allowed him to celebrate his own Eucharist in the capital of Latin Christendom, commissioned him to visit the Christians of the East, and entrusted to him the tiara which he presented to Mar Yaballaha.
Barcelona can be divided into three climatic zones; a temperate one near the sea, where even palm and orange trees grow; a colder one in the valleys and plains, more inland; and a colder still among the mountains, where not a few peaks are snow-clad for a great part of the year.
Not quite two years later Milosh began the second insurrection of the Serbs against the Turks (on Palm Sunday 1815, near the little wooden church of Takovo).
On the north coast the houses are not built on piles; the walls, of bamboo or palm branches, are very low, and the projecting roof nearly reaches the ground; a barrier at the entrance keeps out pigs and dogs.
The principal places of importance in Lower Galilee are Nazareth (10,000 inhabitants), Sepphoris (now Seffuria), a large village standing above the Buttauf on the spurs of the southern hills, and Jenin (En Gannim), a flourishing village, with a palm garden (3000 inhabitants).
Like most true boas, it is of a very gentle disposition and easily domesticates itself in the palm or reed thatched huts of the natives, where it hunts the rats during the night.
On the western side of the island the baobab, the tamarind, the rotra (Eugenia sp.), the rofia palm, and several species of fan-palm (Hyphaene) and of Ficus are prominent; and the mango (introduced) grows to a large tree.
The women spin and weave, and with the rudest appliances manufacture a variety of strong and durable cloths of silk,cotton and hemp, and of rofia palm, aloe and banana fibre, of elegant patterns, and often with much taste in colour.
Ground-nuts (Arachis hypogaea), rubber, beeswax, palm kernels, rice, cotton, and millet are the chief productions.
In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab (Adansonia digitata), doom palm (Hyphaene) and euphorbias.
Disorders ending with the murder of a cardinal led Adrian shortly before Palm Sunday 1155 to take the previously-unheard-of step of putting Rome under the interdict.
The native villages are composed of straw or palm huts; the places occupied by Europeans or Egyptians are merely " posts " where the administrative business of the district is carried on.
Brunei, at this time, was a dependency of Majapahit (Java), and paid a yearly tribute of a jar of areca juice obtained from the young green nuts of the areca palm, and of no monetary value.
Flora and Faunx.-Although the vegetation of the Nicobars has received much desultory attention from scientific observers, it has not been subjected to a systematic examination by the Indian Forest Department like that of the Andamans, and indeed the forests are quite inferior in economic value to those of the more northerly group; besides fruit trees - such as the coco-nut (Cocos nucifera), the betel-nut (Areca catechu), and the mellori (Pandanus leeram) - a thatching palm (Nipa fruticans) and various timber trees have some commercial value, but only one timber tree (Myristica irya)would be considered first-class in the Andamans.
This is as perfect as those of Myra and Patara, but larger than either, and yields the palm only to those of Aspendus and Side.
In a somewhat improved form this process of rendering is practised in the preparation of palm oil, and the rendering the best (Cochin) coco-nut oil by boiling the fresh kernels with water.
In the case of those seeds amongst which are found pieces of iron (hammer heads amongst palm kernels, &c.), the seeds are passed over magnetic separators, which retain the pieces of iron.
It is true that on the continent extracted meal, especially rape meal from good Indian seed and palm kernel meal, are somewhat largely used as focd for cattle in admixture with press cakes, but in England no extracted meal is used for feeding cattle, but finds its proper use in manuring the land.
Where, however, the fatty material forms the main product, as in the case of palm kernel oil, or sesame and coco-nut oils from damaged seeds (which would no longer yield proper cattle food), the process of extraction will be preferred, especially when the price of oils is high.
Where this process does not suffice, as in the case of coco-nut oil or palm kernel oil, a preliminary purification in a current of steam must be resorted to before the final purification, described above, is carried out.
Thus, the Reichert-Meissl value of butter-fat is 25-30, that of coco-nut oil 6-7, and of palm kernel oil about 5-6.
The importation of copra and palm kernels for the production of coco-nut oil and palmnut oil is also considerable, but in these two cases Great Britain does not take the first place.
Practically the whole trade in palm oil, which comes exclusively from West Africa, is confined to Liverpool, and the bulk of the tallow imported into Europe from Australasia, South America and the United States, is sold in the marts of London and Liverpool.
Leaves of planes are abundant, and among the plants recorded are two figs, a laurel, a Robinia, a Grevillea and a palm.
Several species of Nyssa are common to the two districts, as are a climbing palm, two vines, a magnolia, &c. The common tree at Bovey is Sequoia Couttsiae, which probably grew in profusion in the sheltered valleys of Dartmoor, close to the lake.
Palms, referred to i i species, are found, though they seem to have decreased in abundance; of them 7 are fan-palms, the others including Phoenicites - a form allied to the date - and a trailing palm, Calamopsis, allied to the canes and rattans.
The palm, Arenga saccharifera, furnishes gemuti fibres for ropes; its juice is manufactured into sugar and a beverage called sagueir; and intoxicating drinks are prepared from several other palms.
Was she imagining things, or did his fingertips actually linger to caress her palm?
She put her hand on his chest with the intention of pushing him away, but the warmth of his muscular chest on her palm was exciting.
Listen … listen … listen … He slapped his forehead with his palm in a rhythmic beat, waiting for some sort of divine inspiration.
Jule's hand grew too bright to look at directly, and a small ball formed in his palm.
Jule shifted forward as the vamp held out his hand, palm up, in the traditional greeting to an Oracle.
The bumps occurred as an interruption of Dean's otherwise peaceful dream of Cynthia bathing in a misplaced Colorado lagoon, complete with palm trees—altering the vision to something involving a Volkswagen driving down Bird Song's stairs.
He reached into his pocket and withdrew a small black pouch, pouring its contents—two green gems holding the dust of human souls—into his palm.
She touched her palm to the activation key, and the ground battle hologram sprung up before her.
He placed the goblet in front of each vampire, handing them the knife. In turn, all six cut into the palm of their hands and collected their blood.
They whispered conspiratorially about the "true" identity of the other guests—the bearded gentleman on the left, by the palm tree?
Mesmerized, she stared at the blood dripping down her palm and rubbed her chest.
He held out his hand, palm up, to the Oracle in the typical greeting – and permission for her to check his future.
It has some beautiful palm to palm motifs and some luscious backbends; it was innovative, fresh and utterly engaging.
The first painting I remember making was of a Hawaiian lady swimming the backstroke under a palm tree.
The four Palm Court rooms upstairs have bathtubs from which you can enjoy the sunset!
Distortion free output of truly biblical proportions from a speaker that can sit in the palm of your hand.
Further up the coast is elegant Jerez where ample boulevards lined with palm and orange trees separate one famous sherry bodega from another.
Stroll along palm tree-lined boulevards, take a look at the great range of shops, or head for the beach.
Wide elegant boulevards, with parades full of long arching palm trees?
The award was named after the palm trees which have become so inextricably linked with our images of the seafront boulevards of Cannes.
Passengers landing could a palm tree immigration campus quot we rented scooters.
The Palm lined Pedestrian Boulevard leads to the sizeable Swimming Pool and adjacent Terrace of deck chair and sun beds.
The source of the SARS virus was revealed this week to be the masked palm civet.
Possible wildlife sightings include sambar, porcupine, palm civet, small Indian civet and barking deer.
Of all the would-be competitors to the Palm Treo 650 we've seen, the Motorola Q seems best poised to surpass it.
Wake by self in time, which is lucky, cos the alarm I set on my palm was on English time.
Massage into the palm of dry hands or sweep over feet, push back cuticles, rinse under water for instant spa luxury.
There are four endemic palm species in three endemic palm species in three endemic genera.
At the moment Palm's future is inextricably entwined with the Windows Mobile OS.
This bushy, dwarf fan palm makes a handsome and easy-to-grow plant.
And on Rhyll beach is a place called The Sun Center, which has flumes, sand and palm trees and whatever.
Palm growers supply cut palm fronds, without harm to growing trees.
We then had a look at a small group of False Vampire Bats asleep under a palm frond.
It is the only full-fledged word processor for the Palm platform, very powerful, and syncs flawlessly with M$ Word.
The Estonian made up for his earlier gaffes by flinging himself down to his right to palm the ball away.
Dressed palm moses basket with ' squeek ' theme print cotton rich cover in white and mauve gingham.
We took the trail back through the palm grove which appeared to end at the dirt road at the back of the resort.
The Plantation Rooms are located in two buildings surrounded by tropical, hibiscus filled gardens and swaying palm trees.
The shopping bags are held by an adjustable hook which is positioned to fit within the palm of the hand.
The Palm III is the latest incarnation of the Palm Pilot.
I am a professional palm and tarot reader, I am a professional jeweler, I am a professional oral tradition storyteller.
Take a sunset cruise aboard a Siamese sailing junk or enjoy a massage in the shade of a palm tree.
The ninja of Japan wore these brass knuckles, which were made of a metal plate adorned with four spikes extending from the palm.
The Maldives is an enchanted paradise on the equator a necklace of tiny palm studded coral islands, surrounded by sparkling lagoons.
He mentions that George Ohsawa, the founder of modern macrobiotics, taught this palm healing throughout Japan, the US & Europe.
Then place shell in palm of hand (you may want to wear an oven mitt ).
Dresses palm Moses basket with ' little house ' theme print coton rich cover in warm unisex tones and ice cream pastels.
TomTom navigator for Palm Mounting System The mounting system is the TomTom car kit for the Palm.
These are combined with Shea butter and palm oil, resulting in a formula that intensely nourishes and rehydrates the skin.
The desert oasis of Palm Springs is a popular getaway for many celebrities.
Approximately 175 kms away from Muscat Nizwa is renowned for its gold and silver handicrafts and its eight kilometer long palm oasis.
The breeze from the Bay of Bengal was bracing, the sun glistened off the azure ocean and the palm fronds swayed.
The hand made, all natural soap is created from cold pressed pure olive, coconut and palm oils.
Cash crops are produced for commercial and subsistence purposes and include oil palm, cocoa, rubber and timber.
New fertilizer formulations, especially for the Asian market e.g. oil palm, are produced first at Espoo.
So if you ever switched from palm os to windows mobile or to Symbian you would not need to buy another keyboard.
The performer holds them on his outstretched palm and asks a spectator to cover them.
The metallic handle of the door felt cold in my sweaty palm 's grasp.
There's always an empty corner that can be softened by a tall palm or fig tree.
The people of Papua obtain their starch from the sago palm which gives and extremely generous yield for remarkably little effort.
Oddities include the cannonball tree, the sausage tree and the double coconut palm capable of producing a 50lb nut.
The leaves of Sabal palmetto, the thatch or palmetto palm, are used for thatching.
A fossilized palm leaf which is 50 MILLION years old is the latest addition to the collection at World Museum Liverpool.
So how did it change from a green palm leaf like this one into a beautiful fossil?
Pieces of date palm leaf have been found on the bones but are not convincing evidence for wrapping.
He urged firms and individuals to follow his lead and check the products they use do not contain palm oil.
Mahi mahi wrapped in plantain leaf and served with a salad of palm heart shavings and green papaya was a delicate mix of flavors.
The Psion's internal operating system is outstandingly reliable and stable, and Palm's PC synchronization is equally praiseworthy.
The sharp prickles attached to the palm are an embodiment of hyper-sensitivity.
Looking down at the palm of her hand, she saw an insect with a long proboscis, oozing blood, her own blood.
The wrist rest should not be confused with the palm rest, because it supports only the palm.
Asian elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, orangutan, and tiger populations are all declining because palm oil plantations are encroaching on their habitats.
Click to a page containing useful info all about sheet palm sanders on the last link.
Between the long grasses there are small plots of land dotted with tin shacks roofed with dried palm branches.
Run your palm across the textured fascia, feel the solidity of the controls, and you'd swear someone else made it.
Today Memphis is a smallish enclosed park, littered with broken statuary, amid groves of dusty, spiky palm trees.
The fronds of towering palm trees jostle for position above the medieval ramparts where nesting storks colonize each vacant turret.
First stop Dixons, where I enquired as to the availability of a replacement stylus for my Palm.
A spacious garden of mature palm trees and exotic plants unique to the island surround the private swimming pool.
The ultimate, cordless trackball fits advanced optics and digital radio technology comfortably into the palm of your hand.
I said I will climb up the palm tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof.
An Airbus was filmed landing on Saturday 3rd June, with mock palm tress and fake " MIA " signs simulating the American airport.
Black-whiskered Vireos were everywhere and we spent an enjoyable lunch break swimming in a truly tropical bay fringed with palm trees.
With your elbow tucked into your side, turn your palm up.
Most people think of Florida as a place filled with sunshine, palm trees, and dazzling winter vacations.
Several hundred meters east is a single palm sitting the dry wadi.
The paint is wearing out on the touchpad and palm wrests.
It was the city of palm trees of the ancient record of the Israelite invasion preserved in part in Judg.
The last days of Matthias were occupied in endeavouring to secure the succession to the throne for his illegitimate son Janos (see Corvinus, Janos); but Queen Beatrice, though childless, fiercely and openly opposed the idea and the matter was still pending when Matthias, who had long been crippled by gout, expired very suddenly on Palm Sunday, the 4th of April 1490.
The perennially humid regions of the Malayan peninsula and western portion of the archipelago are everywhere covered with dense forest, rendered difficult to traverse by the thorny cane, a palm of the genus Calamus, which has its greatest development in this part of Asia.
Trees are rare, and almost restricted to Pistacia, Celtis and Dodonaea, with poplars, and the date palm.
It is surrounded by huge hollows containing noble palm groves; and beyond these on every side stretches the limitless desert with its great billows of sand, the encroachments of which on the oasis are only held at bay by ceaseless toil.
Their technical ability was incomparablethough in grace of decorative conception they yielded the palm to the Japaneseand the representative specimens they bequeathed to posterity remained, until quite recently, far beyond the imitative capacity of European or Asiatic experts.
Not a few Christian martyrs sought and won the palm by smashing the idols in order to dislodge the indwelling devil; occasionally their zeal was further gratified by beholding it pass away like smoke from its ruined home.
The number of fruit-bearing trees, shrubs and plants that have been introduced and are successfully cultivated or grow wild is much greater; among them are the mango, orange, banana, pineapple, coconut, palm, grape, fig, strawberry, litchi (Nephelium litchi) - the favourite fruit of the Chinese - avocado or alligator pear (Persea gratissi ma), Sapodilla pear (Achras sapota), loquat or mespilus plum (Eriobotrya japonica), Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), tamarind (Tamarindus indica), papaw (Carica papaya), resembling in appearance the cantaloupe, granadilla (Passiflora quadrangularis) and guava (Psidium guajava).
The group of two longnecked gazelles facing a palm tree is of extraordinary refinement, and shows the, artistic consciousness in every part; the symmetric rendering of the palm tree, reduced to fit the scale of the animals, the dainty grace of the smooth gazelles contrasted with the rugged stem, the delicacy of the long flowing curves and the fine indications of the joints, all show a sense of design which has rarely been equalled in the ceaseless repetitions of the tree and supporters motive during every age since.
A special interest attaches to the dwellings of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, and Johann Palm, the patriotic bookseller who was shot by order of Napoleon in 1806.
In general structure they all closely resemble human beings, as in the absence of tails; in their semi-erect position (resting on finger-tips or knuckles); in the shape of vertebral column, sternum and pelvis; in the adaptation of the arms for turning the palm uppermost at will; in the possession of a long vermiform appendix to the short caecum of the intestine; in the size of the cerebral hemispheres and the complexity of their convolutions.
He chose his subjects from the national history, and began with the Auto de Gil Vicente, in which he resuscitated the founder of the theatre, and followed this up with other prose plays, among which the Alfageme de Santarem takes the palm; finally he crowned his labours by Frei Luiz de Sousa, a tragedy of fatality and pathos and one 'of the really notable pieces of the century.
Those at Jerusalem would seem to have been long established when described by the authoress of the Peregrinatio Silviae towards the end of the 4th century (see Palm Sunday, for the procession of palms).
The most conspicuous and perhaps the most universal type in all these regions, below an approximate elevation of moo() ft., is the palm, whose varieties and uses are incredibly numerous.
You now have a very orthodox palm to palm putter grip.
Probably one of the cheapest hives seen was made up from raffia palm stems.
Ngombi - The ngombi is a stringed instrument made from the raphia palm.
With the bottom of his palm he rubbed his reddening eyes.
The second, however, bore the palm on this occasion, being resplendent in a new uniform.
Surrounded by potted palm trees, bamboo awnings and rough-hewn stone, you could be in the perfect Mediterranean hideaway.
After an hour 's walk we reached a genuine sago palm forest.
Hold your scrotum in the palm of your hand.
The lights of the airport bus pick out the tiny terminal building in front of which are silhouetted palm trees and groups of soldiers.
Five slim white fingers wait for the slop bucket, palm uppermost.
False smut disease is now affecting individual date palm trees in the north, central and south areas of Qatar.
Run your palm across the textured fascia, feel the solidity of the controls, and you 'd swear someone else made it.
Have you even heard of Trachycarpus fortunei Very easy to grow, this palm is a statuesque beauty.
Like Nice, cream and pink stucco buildings lining with broad streets planted with palm trees.
Do n't swim naked in the Palm House Pond - it 's freezing cold.
With sand, palm trees and a stock of deck chairs the Old Truman Brewery has been transformed into a complete beach haven.
In general shape they resemble palm trees, with a thick central stem and a whorl of huge leaves at the top.
There are a number of apps available for Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other next generation smartphones that provide all of the features and benefits of web-based movie ticket resources all in the palm of your hand.
You will need to make a decision as to whether or not you like the metal choice and finish, the color and cut of stone set in the ring and the design on the palm side of the ring.
For handheld models, try a test fit in your palm.
Alternatively, you will also find other platforms that are also capable of running mobile games, such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Palm OS.
Take your outstretched hand and measure from your neck to your palm.
These units vary in size, some as small as the palm of you hand.
Some neighboring cities include Palm City, Florida Ridge, Fort Pierce and Palm Bay.
Doral Desert Princess Resort, Palm Springs offers a Shop Till You Drop Package, which includes a VIP Coupon book.
Hampton Inn & Suites, Palm Desert offers a Shop & Stay package, which includes a $20 gift card that can be used centerwide.
Rendezvous, Palm Springs offers a Shop Till You Drop Package, which includes a $50 gift card that can be used centerwide.
The Nook provides the benefit of having an entire library in the palm of your hand.
She can be held easily in the palm of your hand, and her eyes will be tightly closed.
These berries are grown on the Acai palm tree which is a native of the Amazon rain forest.
The acai palm, part of the plant genus Euterpe, provides purple berries the size of blueberries which are harvested and processed before eating.
The acai palm grows in Brazil where it reaches heights of 100 feet or more.
Acai berry is the fruit of the acai palm, a common tree in Central and South America.
Often, the tree is chopped down and the palm heart is removed with one tree providing up to 50 pounds of this tasty vegetable.
The part of the acai palm used for actual medicinal purposes is only the root.
The fruit grows atop native Amazon palm trees and is harvested by local farmers.
Tropical Style - With a tropical theme in mind, you can look for daybed covers that feature large, tropical flowers, palm trees, parrots, and images of other things you would see in a tropical paradise.
Bring in art and accessories featuring palm trees, coconuts, pineapples, surf boards, and grass huts.
To apply with fingertips, use the spray product into the palm of your hand as with the brush method, and use the same method with your fingertips acting as the 'brush.'
The case fits nicely in the palm of your hand and flips up.
It is long-lasting, lightweight and contains sunflower seed, palm kernel, and aloe vera to help protect lips from chapping and drying out.
The rugged digital camera is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and allows you to take pictures as deep as 10 feet underwater.
Saturated fats occur naturally in red meat, eggs, and in some oils such as palm oil.
You'll find that your hands will be much more at ease with this type of stress reliever tool because they wrap comfortably around an object that is specifically designed for the shape of your fingers and palm.
This also goes for Palm Pilots, pagers and in some instances, calculators that can store text information.
Props such as buildings, pyramids, pagodas, palm trees, sphinx, dragons, Eiffel Tower and so much more are available to turn your room into a different place.
A serving of meat is about the size of the palm of your hand.
The coconut is actually the seed of the palm tree, but it is widely considered to be a drupe, a category of fruit.
The new plant feeds off of the water and coconut meat inside, until roots also push through and a new palm tree is born.
This is thought to be the way that the coconut palm was introduced to many different countries and islands.
The coconut palm is native to Malaysia and Polynesia, but now grows in almost any hot climate or location.
The coconut palm tree is one of the most diverse trees in tropical regions and is the answer to the question, "Where do coconuts come from?"
Because the coconut palm is grown in many tropical areas, the origin of the coconut is not widely known, although most scientists feel it is native to the Malay Archipelago South Pacific region.
The trunk of the coconut palm tree is often utilized for timber and the leaves for roof thatch.
The coconut palm is grown from seeds, usually matured nuts that are placed approximately one-half of their thickness into soil.
Many believe because the coconut palm tree is grown in tropical areas close to the salt of the oceans and seas that sea salt is required for its growth.
This is untrue and the palm tree can grow in almost any type of soil as long as they are kept well-drained and in temperatures of 72 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Rainfall is important to the coconut palm and the tree thrives in areas where average rainfalls are forty to sixty inches.
While the coconut palm tree grows in tropical regions in the United States like Florida, they are judged more for their beauty, not for their commercial value.
Puerto Vallarta Westin Regina Resort-Bordered by the Sierra Madre and Banderas Bay, this resort offers honeymooners a gorgorgeous beach setting complete with palm trees and dolphins.
Shape into 3/4 inch balls, rolling in palm of hand.
Use a seal with hearts, stars, palm tree, or monogram to tie it in with your theme.
Choose graphics that coordinate with the wedding theme - a palm tree or tropical beach, for example, is the perfect way to save the date for a beach wedding.
Affixing small charms, like hearts, palm trees, cowboy boots, or rings to the center of a ribbon bow can add a certain appeal to your invitation that preprinted ones lack.
For example, you could use pineapples, orchids, and palm trees to create a tropical paradise if you're planning a honeymoon to Hawaii.
If your ceremony's a casual event - possibly even set up like a luau - you could opt for a palm tree or Adirondack chair atop your cake.
Themed lollipops, in the shape of pineapples, palm trees, Hawaiian shorts, flip flops, or imprinted with images like hibiscus flowers can compliment you wedding theme.
Round or square nougat candies with palm tree or exotic flower centers are a sweet and pretty addition to guest tables.
Small potted palm trees can flank the sides of the head table, with lights if an electrical hookup is available.
Choose tropical flowers, bright colors, and Caribbean carols for the event, and decorate palm trees for a fun backdrop.
Most beach cakes involve a water or island scene with palm trees, a traditional bride and groom cake topper, and extras such as a cruise ship or edible "sand."
Other theme ideas are palm trees, surfing, waterskiing, botanical gardens, or tropical fruit, which can be incorporated into the cake's style or flavors.
Specialty designs featuring tiki carvings, palm trees, fruits or island scenes will naturally cost more than standard designs because of the additional work and supplies involved in their creation.
Orchids and gardenias are romantic and sweet, while bird-of-paradise bouquets combined with bright hibiscus blooms and palm leaves are dramatic and elegant as late summer wedding flowers.
It's actually made from the nut of the areca palm tree, combined with flavoring and sometimes other ingredients, including tobacco.
You can almost hear the ocean's roar and the steel drums lilting when you see some of the island themed designs of palm trees, white sandy beaches and crystal blue oceans.
Palm trees and monkeys-For example, if the curtain you choose has a tropical jungle theme, complete with monkeys, palm trees, and coconuts, you'll want to choose accessories accordingly.
There are adorable soap dishes and toothbrush holders in the shape of palm trees available online and at numerous department stores.
If so, you can go for a more tranquil look, with scenes featuring oceans, palm trees, and quiet beaches.
Whether you're working to create a tropical retreat complete with starfish, seahorses, palm trees and other tropical features, it's a fun way to bring your bathroom décor together.
The result is bedding adorned with everything from waves and palm trees to sand and flowers.
For example, some shower curtains combine old world nautical maps with harbor lighthouses in the foreground complete with palm fronds and picket fencing.
For instance, instead of the traditional topper, you can use a figurine shaped like a teddy bear, a castle, a pair of palm trees, a snowflake, a starfish or a symbol that is special to you.
Cut palm trees out of green and brown rolled fondant and place around the cake.
Palm Springs - Palm Springs is well-known for its golf, as well as its older celebrity residents.
While an investigation is under way, it is believed that Bollea's Toyota Supra swerved off the road and slammed into a palm tree, reportedly the result of excessive speeding.
Hogan and another man were drag racing when he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a concrete median, causing the car to flip and hit a palm tree.
In 1981, Bob Goen moved to television, taking a job with a Palm Springs ABC affiliate and working as a sports anchor.
The school was established in 1960 and has four campuses in Cocoa, Melbourne, Palm Beach and Titusville.
Located in Lake Worth, Florida, Palm Beach Junior College opened its doors in 1933 with just 41 students.
Today, Palm Beach Junior College is formally known as Palm Beach State College.
The goal of Palm Beach Junior College from founding was to serve the Palm Beach community and surrounding areas.
The images of white sand, swaying palm trees, and sparkling blue waters draw millions of passengers to the western Caribbean each year.
When most people think of Palm Springs, they imagine resorts and luxurious living, but Palm Springs cruises rarely cross their mind, and for good reason.
The reason that Palm Springs is not typically associated with cruises is because of its location.
Palm Springs is a popular wedding and vacation destination, and its proximity to all four significant California departure ports makes it a prime target for pre- and post-cruise getaways.
Visitors to Palm Springs, then, have their choice of different cruise options based on which city they will eventually depart from, whether they're looking for a honeymoon cruise or just a fun sea vacation.
San Francisco is significantly further north than the other popular Palm Springs cruise ports, but it also offers several more unique itinerary options.
While driving to San Francisco is less feasible, prospective passengers can easily catch one of the many 90-minute flights connecting Palm Springs to the Bay Area.
Even though a cruise may be the most prominent part of the vacation, visitors should not neglect the many fascinating sights of Palm Springs before they leave to board their ship.
In addition to these many attractive options, Palm Springs also has another allure.
This makes Palm Springs the perfect jumping off point for gay cruises.
Palm Springs cruises may seem to be a contradiction, but this southern California city is uniquely placed to serve as a way stop for all the California departure ports and their wide range of 3 to 20 night itineraries.
With so many cruise options available, as well as the natural allure of Palm Springs, it is no wonder that many cruisers are making this city their departure port away from the departure port.
Positioned between Miami and Palm Beach, Florida, Fort Lauderdale is a popular cruise port.
Online ordering and shipping are available, so no matter where you are, you and your dog can enjoy the latest trends in whimsical dog beds from the retailer named as the Palm Beach A-List Best Pet Supplies" provider for 2007.
The Chusan Palm (Chamaerops Fortunei) - A valuable Palm, often confounded with C. excelsa.
Palm tree care isn't difficult, but over-pruning not only makes a palm tree unattractive, it can also do damage to the tree.
Many, but not all, palm trees are self-pruning.
If you have a coconut palm, you should consider removing the coconuts before they fall to the ground.
While palm trees make an amazing addition to the landscape, you should be aware that they can have problems as well.
Some species of palm are susceptible to diseases, such as Lethal Yellowing, that cannot be treated.
If you insist on using a palm that is susceptible to disease, you are likely to need to remove it in the future.
Some palms also tend to attract certain pests, such as the Royal Palm Bug or the Red Palm Mite.
Contact your local Extension Office to see what pests and diseases are common in your area as well as to find out which palm tree types are susceptible, before selecting a palm tree for your landscape.
Palm Beach Jewelry is an online store with fashionable and affordable jewelry.
Palm leaves are another popular Hawaiian motif used quite frequently in jewelry making.
Tropical earring organizers are often shaped as palm trees, with the long and distinctive palm leaf creating the ideal home for long and dangling earrings as well as small and delicate stud earrings.
Material - Earring trees shaped as palm trees are often created from wood.
For an earring tree to have a tropical feel, the branches are likely to be similar to a palm tree - perhaps even with an added coconut!
Style - The style of an earring tree with a tropical theme needn't just be palm tree related.
Oragnize.com sells a colorful palm tree and surfboard earring tree.
A palm tree necklace is a delicate touch of the tropics that can be added to any wardrobe for a unique and beautiful accent.
Whether it will be worn for a beach wedding, a Spring Break getaway, a tropical cruise, or just for fun, palm tree jewelry is always stunning.
Palm tree pendants and necklaces have always been popular, but their appeal exploded in 2008 with the release of the romantic comedy Fool's Gold, starring Kate Hudson.
During the movie, Hudson wore a simple palm tree pendant, which she was also seen wearing throughout the summer at other events and social occasions.
Celebrities often start jewelry trends, and the popularity of palm tree jewelry has skyrocketed.
No matter where you want to wear a palm tree, you'll find a wide range of outstanding designs that can match any mood or event.
While the classic palm tree pendant is a simple tree in white gold, silver, or platinum and studded with diamonds along the fronds and trunk, there are many additional designs to choose from.
If you like the look of palm tree jewelry but a necklace isn't right for you, there are many other choices.
Rings, bracelets, charms, earrings, anklets, cuff links, and belly rings are all available with a palm tree motif.
To add tropical bling to your accessories, consider a palm tree cell phone charm or zipper pull as well.
Many trendy jewelers and those specializing in nautical themes offer palm tree pendants and other jewelry for sale.
While Kate Hudson's designer palm tree pendant is reputed to have cost $1,400 from Tiffany and Co., most people without a celebrity budget are interested in more affordable options.
A palm tree necklace can cost from $20 to $300 or higher depending on the retailer, design, materials used, and quality of workmanship.
If you want a touch of the tropics but don't care for palm tree designs, there are many other fun options to choose from.
A palm tree necklace can add a glittering touch of the tropics to your jewelry wardrobe.
With many beautiful designs to choose from in all price ranges, there is a palm tree perfect for your personality.
Palm trees add to the tropical flavor, but don't save them for your vacation.
Patterns include tropical birds, coconut trees, palm leaves, canoes, blossoms and so much more, all in comfortable big and tall sizes.
Look for conservative vertical stripes, solid tops with a line of demure print along one side and even a simple white style etched with a tonal palm tree print.
Spectrum organic vegan shortening is made from 100 percent organic palm oil.
To make the shortening, Spectrum presses the palm oil and refines it with a chemical-free process.
Palm oil is used for its antioxidant benefits.
Ingredients include coconut, palm, olive, avocado, vitamin E, and jojoba oils, shea butter, and calendula flowers.
This gentle cleansing bar has a light lavender sent and is made with organic palm, coconut, olive, and palm kernel oils, natural lavender essential oil blend, organic lavender oil, aloe vera, and rosemary extract.
Ingredients include organic calendula blossom tea and petals, organic olive, coconut, palm, avocado and jojoba oil, raw silk protein, and essential oil.
All add a few more calories by using organic palm shortening but have no cholesterol and are lower in saturated fat than butter and contain no trans-fats.
When they sit down to work, start moving the wireless mouse around on the palm of your hand and clicking on applications.
If you have a loved one who is in need of in home senior care, Palm Beach, Florida has several options that may work for you.
If you are in need of in-home senior care, Palm Beach, Florida, offers several options that may work well for your loved one.
For in home senior care, Palm Beach Florida has several options.
Palm Beach Home Care Agency-This is a professional registered agency that is licensed by the State of Florida.
Because there are more than 60 senior care service options in the West Palm Beach area, finding the right place for your loved one can be difficult.
These sites are just a few of the many listed in and around the Palm Beach, Florida area.
Use a beach theme with a beach ball or palm tree piñata.
At night, clean both sides of one lens at a time in the palm of your hand using your fingertip and a solution meant for cleaning soft lenses.
Rinse the lens with more solution in the palm of your hand and then deposit it into fresh solution in the appropriate well of your contact lens case.
Castaway Bay's most popular feature is its 38,000 square foot indoor waterpark, complete with palm trees, lagoons, and thatched huts to complement the resort's Caribbean theme.
Grand Floridian Resort and Spa - Designed to capture the essence of Victorian era Palm Beach, guests will enjoy staying in accommodations that transport them to the South Florida of days gone by.
The indoor water wonderlands feature palm trees, constant 84-degree temperatures, and slew of colorful decorations.
Gunslingers hide behind wagon wheels, duck under horse troughs, and shoot their gun by slamming the hammer with their palm.
Milton Bradley's Microvision wasn't that portable (about as long as your forearm and wide as your palm), but it was the first one to have games on cartridges.
The controllers are hand height and fit easily into your palm.
They offer a version for Palm OS as well as Pocket PC-based handhelds.
Glasses come with cactus, palm tree and even golfer stems as well as ones that are done in pink or blue glass and ones that are hand etched or frosted.
Hold the glass by the stem, not in the palm of the hand.
Use the navigation bar on the left side of the site to choose your platform -- Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry, etc. -- and then surf through the available options.
This small handheld has a form factor similar to the Palm Pilots of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Clearly, it is obsolete today, but it was one of the many devices that paved the way for handhelds like HTC smartphones and Palm Treo devices.
A Verizon Palm Treo review should focus mainly on business aspects of the phone.
The Treo 650 is still clunky though, but the features that are packed into a Verizon Palm Treo make up for it.
There is currently an upgrade being worked on by Palm to fix this issue.
Core features are not an issue in this Verizon Palm Treo review.
When all is said and done about the Verizon Palm Treo review, you will find that lots of businesspeople carry the Treos around.
The Palm Centro, in many ways, is the little brother to the rest of the Palm Treo line.
Palm has managed to create a handset that isn't much bigger than a regular Nokia or Motorola, but it could prove to be a lot more useful in managing your life than most standard phones.
The Palm Centro runs on the same Palm operating system (OS) that you'd find on the Palm Treo line.
If you're interested in something like the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 or the LG enV, the Palm Centro might be worth a look too.