. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. e washington, d. c. AT20 CENT? PER COPY. 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 Niie 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 ofAgriculture in July, 1890) was from Egypt. Eleven years passed before Mr. David Fairchild, Agricultu
. Dates of Egypt and the Sudan. e washington, d. c. AT20 CENT? PER COPY. 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 Niie 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 ofAgriculture in July, 1890) was from Egypt. Eleven years passed before Mr. David Fairchild, AgriculturalExplorer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, visited Egypt and obtainedoffshoots of a number of the leading varieties. Small lots of Egyptianoffshoots were secured through agents in later years, but the factremained that the dates of Egypt, of which there are more than7,000,000 trees, were less thoroughly known to American experi-menters than those of any other great date-producing region. Inthe published lists of Egyptian dates there was much confusion andcontradi
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