. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. f BULLETIN No. 271 i Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, *> Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. SL^'^U'U. Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER September 28, 1915 DATES OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. By S. C. Mason, Arboriculturist, Crop Physiology and Breeding Investigations. CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Description of varieties 17 Nile Valley dates and their climatic environ- Summary 39 ments 2 INTRODUCTION. The earliest importation of date offshoots into the United States (a lot of 59 received through correspondence by the Dep
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. f BULLETIN No. 271 i Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, *> Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. SL^'^U'U. Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER September 28, 1915 DATES OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. By S. C. Mason, Arboriculturist, Crop Physiology and Breeding Investigations. CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Description of varieties 17 Nile Valley dates and their climatic environ- Summary 39 ments 2 INTRODUCTION. The earliest importation of date offshoots into the United States (a lot of 59 received through correspondence by the Department of Agriculture in July, 1890) was from Egypt. Eleven years passed before Mr. David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, visited Egypt and obtained offshoots of a number of the leading varieties. Small lots of Egyptian offshoots were secured through agents in later years, but the fact remained that the dates of Egypt, of which there are more than 7,000,000 trees, were less thoroughly known to American experi- menters than those of any other great date-producing region. In the published lists of Egyptian dates there was much confusion and contradiction, and the identity of some of the more promising of the Egyptain varieties on trial at the Tempe and Mecca date gardens in doubl. These considerations induced the offices of Crop Physiology and Breeding Investigations unci of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduc- tion to combine in sending the writer to Egypt and the Sudan in August, 191.'}. An iiecount of the journey in these countries, from August, Mil:;, to February, 1911, is embodied in another paper, but the descriptions of 22 varieties of dates of Egypt and the Sudan. comprising mosl of the commercial dales of those regions, as well as of several varieties of minor importance not heretofore published, are tbled in 11n- bulletin. 9661:'."—Jiull. 'Sil—ir, 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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