Some of 'em are six feet long, and they've got folds in 'em.

There ain't any limbs to the tree at all." "Where did you see that ?" asked Sam eagerly.
"Right over there, about a hundred yards." "Good! It's palmetto.

I didn't know there was one this far from the sea though.

Here, take my big knife and you and Joe go and cut out as much as you can of the soft part just where the leaves come out.

It's what they call palmetto cabbage, and it's very good to eat too, I can tell you." The boys, after receiving minute instructions, went to the palmetto-tree and brought away several pounds of the terminal bud.