Vill CONTENTS. 



Para. PAGE. 



21. The world's date flowering season . . . . . . 45 



22. Humidities in the flowering season . . . . . . ib. 



23. Kainfall in the flowering season . . . . . . 52 



24. Humidity and rainfall in the fruit developing and ripening 



season . . . . . . . . ib. 



25. The limiting factor of date farming in the Punjab . . . . 54 



26. Useful information that might be collected . . . . 65 



CHAPTER III. 



PROPAGATION OF DATE PLANTS FROM SEEDS AND SUCKERS 

 (OFF-SHOOTS), CARE OF YOUNG PLANTATIONS, MANURING, 

 INTERCULTURE. PRUNING AND WATER REQUIREMENTS OF 

 ESTABLISHED PLANTATIONS. 



27. Propagation by seeds . . . . . . 66 



28. Rearing of date seedlings . . . . . . 67 



29. Advantages of planting by off-shoots . . . . . . ib. 



30. Time of year to select off -shoots . . . . . . 68 



31. Trimming of suckers and detaching them from parent trees . . ib. 



32. Size of suckers to be planted . . . . . . 69 



33. To induce off-shoots to form roots . . . . . . ib. 



34. Care of off-shoots after removal from parent tree until planted . . 70 



35. Time of year to plant off -shoots . . . . . . 71 



36. Cost of off-shoots in Arabia . . . . . . 72 



37. The advantages and disadvantages of having dates in plantations 



as compared with having the trees around the borders of fields ib. 



38. Choosing the site, and preparations for laying down a plantation . . 73 



39. Distances between the trees in a plantation and relative positions 



of the trees . . . . . . . . 77 



40. The question of applying manure to the plants at planting time . . 79 



41. Planting the off-shoots . . . . . . 80 



42. To prevent water getting into the crown of the off-shoot when 



the plant has sunk after planting . . . . . . 81 



43. To prevent cracking of the soil round the plants and excessive 



evaporation of water . . . . . . ib. 



44. Newly planted trees must be shaded by thatch . . . . 82 



45. Trees must not be shaken till firmly established . . . . ib. 



46. Auxiliary crops . . . . . . . . 83 



47. Method of keeping records of trees in a plantation . . . . ib. 



48. Register of waterings . . . . . . 84 



49. Water and other requirements of a young plantation on medium 



soils in Multan . . ... . . . . ib. 



50. Water requirements of young plantations in Basra .. .'. 85 



51. The effects of allowing the soil in a young plantation to dry up . . ib. 



52. Death-rate in a young plantation . . . . 86 



