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Coconut Grove
 
Cocoanut Grove, Lake Worth, Fla., USA. This picture shows a cocoanut grove, the largest in Florida. The American species of the cocoanut palm requires a dry and elevated soil. The trees attain a height of only 16 or 20 feet and near the summit a crown is formed of 16 or 20 branches curved towards the ground about 8 to 10 feet in length.
 
Photographer:
B. L. Lingley
Date:
1897
Publisher & City:
Keystone View Company: Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo.
Series & Number:
246

Scan courtesy of Roy Winkelman. Image retouched and converted to anaglyph in 2005 by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. View this image using 3D glasses with the red lens over the left eye and the blue lens over the right eye.

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