. The American fruit culturist. ^ until new roots form. Seeds germinatereadily, but produce many more staminate trees than arewanted—one of these to twenty of the opposite sex beingsufficient—and until flowering begins there is no means ofdetermining the sex. Of course, suckers are always the same as their parent. 655 656 THE Fig. 815.—Date Palms. THE DATE. 657 In 1890 a large number of offsets from several of the bestvarieties were imported by the Department of Agriculturefrom Algeria and Cairo and distributed throughout NewMexico, Arizona, and California. When these come to matur-ity
. The American fruit culturist. ^ until new roots form. Seeds germinatereadily, but produce many more staminate trees than arewanted—one of these to twenty of the opposite sex beingsufficient—and until flowering begins there is no means ofdetermining the sex. Of course, suckers are always the same as their parent. 655 656 THE Fig. 815.—Date Palms. THE DATE. 657 In 1890 a large number of offsets from several of the bestvarieties were imported by the Department of Agriculturefrom Algeria and Cairo and distributed throughout NewMexico, Arizona, and California. When these come to matur-ity the question of adaptation will be more definitely the date-producing countries of the East trees often beginto bear at six or eight years of age, but specimens in theSouthern States frequently have not flowered until after fifteenor twenty years. Like other palms, all of which are greatlyretarded by mutilation of their roots in transplanting, it isbest to remove the seedlings either while very young, so thatthe roots may be preserved intact, or to defer the operationuntil the tree has acquired considerable size, when the rootsmay be cut closely, and the top shortened-in to a single freely watered, new roots will start at once. A better waystill is to plant several seeds where the tree is to grow, re-mov
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