. Date culture in Southern California. Date palm. 30. Preparing Wesl India Gardens' 1912 suit it best, although the great Semail Valley of Oman, where it grows, has never 1 ii entered by a man scientifically interested in the study of dates. Moltagi is a little known Persian Gulf date enumerated by Director R. H. Forbes as one that has done well under conditions at Tempe. Advantage of Early Varieties. It may well be doubted, however, whether we have yet secured the varie- ties that will eventually prove the most desirable. The Deglet Noor itself may be relegated to the lower ranks, as new coun
. Date culture in Southern California. Date palm. 30. Preparing Wesl India Gardens' 1912 suit it best, although the great Semail Valley of Oman, where it grows, has never 1 ii entered by a man scientifically interested in the study of dates. Moltagi is a little known Persian Gulf date enumerated by Director R. H. Forbes as one that has done well under conditions at Tempe. Advantage of Early Varieties. It may well be doubted, however, whether we have yet secured the varie- ties that will eventually prove the most desirable. The Deglet Noor itself may be relegated to the lower ranks, as new countries are laid under contribu- tion by the growers of the United States, ami it is certain that the early ripening Persian Gulf dates will do much to minimize the importance of the Deglet Noor and other late varieties, since the former will be on the market and all sold weeks before the latter are ob- tainable. The wise grower will, of course, plant both early and late varie- ties, thus extending his season from August 1 to November 1; lie certainly will not confine himself solely to late varieties, as he has done in the past. On this point the twenty-second annual report of the Arizona Agricultural Ex- periment station says: "The study of varieties has been found most gratifying in that several have been found that will furnish a shipment of offshoots in Sahara Desert. substantial basis for future successful date culture in Arizona. These varie- ties respond easily and perfectly to artifi- cial methods of ripening and further- more mature evenly enough under the most adverse Salt River Valley condi- tions so that they may be harvested by the bunch, and from ninety-five to one hundred per cent ripened into first quality fruit of their class. In quality none of I hern approaches the Deglet Noor, but it is believed they will not enter into competition with that fruit since they will have been harvested and consumed weeks before the Deglet Xoor crop matures. Moreover, they wi
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