. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. Samples of Jaow Obaid, a Minor Variety of Date from near Merowe, Sudan. (Natural Size.) 271, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Samples of Kosha, the Least Known of the Four Chief Varieties of Dateof Dongola Province, from near Merowe, Sudan. iNatural Size.) DATES OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. 25 HAMRAWI. The Hamrawi date is a variety of secondary importance in the Khargeh and Dakh-leh Oases, and only a small number of these trees are grown. At El Khargeh it wasmentioned that especially fine agwa is prepared from them, packed in earthen jars. The leaves of this v
. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. Samples of Jaow Obaid, a Minor Variety of Date from near Merowe, Sudan. (Natural Size.) 271, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Samples of Kosha, the Least Known of the Four Chief Varieties of Dateof Dongola Province, from near Merowe, Sudan. iNatural Size.) DATES OF EGYPT AND THE SUDAN. 25 HAMRAWI. The Hamrawi date is a variety of secondary importance in the Khargeh and Dakh-leh Oases, and only a small number of these trees are grown. At El Khargeh it wasmentioned that especially fine agwa is prepared from them, packed in earthen jars. The leaves of this variety are long, with light flexible ribs and rather narrow basesstrongly rounded dorsally, and dark colored, as though partaking of the dark red natureshown in the fruit. The spine area is long, one-third to two-fifths of the blade length,the spines short, light, and weak. They pass into very narrow ribbon pinnae. Thenormal pinnae are 18 to 24 inches long, 1£ to If inches broad, rather soft in fruit stalk is short, heavy, and erect, the strands short, the bunch very heavy andcompact. The fruit is about 2 inches long, If inches broad, oblong, wi
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