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trees grow under the palms; arid hills form the background; December, 1899. 

 Fig. 3. Fan palm, showing persistent dead leaves clothing the trunk, near Indio, 

 Cal. Fig. 4. Group of fan palms growing wild in a dry ravine near Indio, Cal., 

 November, 1899. Negatives by the author. 



PLATE XX. Fig. 1. Old date palms growing at San Diego Mission, near San 

 Diego, Cal. Negative by Park & Co., Los Angeles. Fig. 2. Seedling date palm, 

 showing bunches of nearly ripe fruit, growing without artificial irrigation in the 

 flood -plain of the Colorado Biver, near Yuma, Ariz. ; planted by Mr. Hall Han- 

 Ion (who stands beneath), November, 1899. Negative by the author. 



PLATE XXI. View in Cooperative Date Orchard at Tempe, Ariz., showing growth 

 made in two years by offshoots imported from North Africa in 1900. Photo- 

 graphed December 31, 1902, by Prof. R. H. Forbes. 



PLATE XXII. Three-year-old Deglet Noor date palm in fruit, growing in the Coop- 

 erative Date Orchard at Tempe, Ariz., from an offshoot imported from the Sahara 

 Desert in July, 1900. Photographed August 27, 1903, by W. W. Skinner. 



