146 THE DATE PALM. 



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Amreeyah date, note 129 



Analyses of Saharan soils for alkali, method 73 



soils and waters of date regions for alkali, tables 76, 



77,80,82,83-89,91-98 



in Arizona for alkali 100 



Salton Basin, Cal., for alkali 107-113 



Arab cultivators, management of date palm offshoots 15 



Arabia, dates of promise for United States 40 



Khalas date from Hassa. .. 36 



Arabs, date cultivation, notes 17 



drying and packing of dates 30 



planting of date palm, notes 22 



practice of keeping pollen 28 



skill in climbing date palm and pollinating flowers 27 



watering of young date palm offshoots 21 



Areshtee date, large yield, note 26 



Arid regions of Southwest, suitability for date growing 11 



United States. See Arizona, California, etc. 



Arizona, amount of water needed in irrigation of date 46 



atmospheric humidity, records 53 



bearing age of date palm 25 



character of male dates 20 



cooperative date garden, notes 41, 128 



date culture, probable success 126-133 



prospects 13 



dates to be secured 38 



varieties, very large collection at date garden 128 



early importation of dates 41 



growing of dates, present 32, 128-129 



insufficiency of heat for seedling dates, note 18 



notable yields of dates 26 



number "of male date palms, note 23 



peculiarity of cold air drainage in relation to date 61 



profits of date culture, estimates 137 



rainfall, records 53, 55, 56, 57 



ripening of Deglet Xoor date, doubtfulness 67 



Salt River Valley, alkali character, remarks 101 



in relation to date culture 99-101 



second importation of date offshoots 42 



seedling dates of value 32, 128-129 



summer temperatures, sum 66 



Tempe and Salt River Valley, drainage problem 51 



introduction of Dakar male date palm. 24 



planting of Deglet Noor dates 35 



temperature variations 50, 00 



temperatures, mean and mean maximum, sums 66, 68 



University, establishment of date garden 41 



warmth o'f water in irrigation of dates 



Yurna, climatic peculiarities, relation to date growing 50 



Artesian wells in Salton Basin, proposed use for irrigation Ill 



irrigation in Algeria, remarks; analysis of water 90, 91 



of date palms " 121 



use in irrigation of date in Sahara, notes 44, 45, 79, 82, 84 



warm water for irrigation of dates 49 



Assyrians, cultivation and use of dates 



discovery of pollination of dates 26 



Atriplex semibaccata" saltbush, resistance to alkali 121 



Bagdad, dates of promise for United States 39-40 



Baluchistan, dates and date region 



Barley as crop in alkaline soil in date orchard 23 



resistance to alkali, note 115 



Barrows, David P., remarkson Colorado desert 103 



Bassorah, date exports, notes - x 



soil and cultivation 109 



Bearing age of date palms, discussion; note 25, 136 



continuance, of date palm 26 



