A small garden two yards wide, surrounded by a low wall so that one could see the passers-by, separated the house from the road; there was a beautiful rose-laurel, extending its southern foliage above the evening bench, and there were yuccas, a palm tree, and enormous bunches of those hortensias which are giants here, in this land of shade, in this lukewarm climate, so often enveloped by clouds.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
The fan-like leaves of palmettos and yuccas growing all around, gave a southern and tropical aspect to the scene.
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid
Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin