. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. DATES OF EGYPT AXD THE SUDAN. 19 The ripe fruits are 2 to 2^ inches long, 1 inch to 1J inches broad, nearly oblong (fig. 3), sometimes a little the broadest at slightly above the middle, rounding to a blunt and often oblique apex, with a short awnlike point. The color is '' liver brown " (R. XIV) or "Hessian brown" (R. XIII), the skin thick, often loose from the flesh and thrown in coarse wrinkles. The flesh is three-eighths to five-eighths of an inch thick, coarse fibrous, with some stickiness, and with
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. DATES OF EGYPT AXD THE SUDAN. 19 The ripe fruits are 2 to 2^ inches long, 1 inch to 1J inches broad, nearly oblong (fig. 3), sometimes a little the broadest at slightly above the middle, rounding to a blunt and often oblique apex, with a short awnlike point. The color is '' liver brown " (R. XIV) or "Hessian brown" (R. XIII), the skin thick, often loose from the flesh and thrown in coarse wrinkles. The flesh is three-eighths to five-eighths of an inch thick, coarse fibrous, with some stickiness, and with a zone of tough "rag" one- sixteenth of an inch thick next to the seed. The seeds are large and often rough and corrugated, 1J to 1J inches long, three- eighths of an inch broad, often poorly filled out at the base; the germ pore placed rather toward the base, the ventral furrow broad and shallow. The color of the seed is as near "Mars brown" (R. XV) as can be selected. At the time of the writer's visit to Salihieh, November 8, the bulk of this crop had gone out, so the date of ripening may be set at about November 1. This date has considerable sweetness, but the flavor is coarse and common. Its large size and fine appearance, along with its good packing qualities, can alone account for the popularity of the variety. The production of the Amri is brought to the greatest perfection in the regions of Korain and Salihieh, on the sandy borderland between the delta and the desert, and is grown in small numbers under similar conditions about Mergand Birket el Hadji, which seems to be about its southern range. It probably ranks as the most important export variety of Egypt) though data in this regard are very meager. The best packs seen by the writer were in the regions above mentioned, Avhere the pebble-floored drying yards secured some degree of cleanli- ness, and where the reflected heat insured a more nearly perfect curing of the dates than is obtained under o
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