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Title: Bulletin. 1901-13
Identifier: bulletin190113v51v60unit (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering
Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture
Publisher: Washington Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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42 THE DATE PALM. sliipiiu'nt, )Ui(l 11 hii't^i' nuiiilx'i- wjis contnictcd tOf, to l)r (IcIInfi'cd thft t"i)llowiiit^" spiintr. In May iind June, 1000, the writer at»iiiri went to Algeria for the purpose of shippin*^" to Arizona the date otlshoots ))revioiisIy eon- tracted for and to purchase sueh additional otlshoots of j^ood sorts as could ))e had. As a result of this second visit 440 oti'shoots, consisting" of some ^7 varieties, were obtained and shipped (see 1*1. \'I) to the Cooperative Date (Jarden at Tenii)e, Ariz., where 884 of tin* otlshoots were planted (see tit»-. 0 and Pis. XXI and XXII). Of the remainder 21 were sent to Phoenix, Ariz., and 35 to the date oardens at th(^ sub- stations of the California Experiment Station at Pomona and Tulare and to pi'ivate orowers in California.
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Fig. 6.—Cooperative Date Garden "at Tempe, Ariz. The offshoots imported from the Algerian Sahara in VM) liav(» just l)een set out and a workman is phintins'one in the foreg^round. From negative by I'rof. R. H. Forbes, August, 1900. This shipment, which was the largest that ever left North Africa, came through in two months and arrived in good order. An innova- tion was made in packing the otfshoots. It had been the custom to send them rooted in tubs, entailing the great expense of a 3^ear or two of care in a nursery to got the plants properly rooted, and then heavy freight charges on account of the bulk and perishable nature of the plants. The writer shipped the offshoots packed simply in l)oxes with damp moss about the bases, in charcoal, or in straw, with no moisture whatever (see p. 21). A late report of Prof. R. H. Forbes, director of the Arizona Experiment Station, who gave his close «For fuller details see the writer's report, "The date palm and its culture," in Yearbook, Department of Agriculture, 1900.

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