INDEX. 109 



Pagre 



Khali Menak'hry variety 93,105 



Mooashem variety 81, 104 



Kharooby variety 86, 102 



Kseba variety 77.100 



Labor 42-43 



Lagoo variety - 80,102 



Legends concerning the date palni 14,46 



Lemsy variety 75, 99 



Male palms 50-51 



Manuring 49-50 



Measurements given in descriptions 94 



Menakher variety 57,60, 106 



botanical characters 60-61, 106 



commercial possibilities 57,61,62 



geographical distribution and rarity 57,62 



introduction into United States 57,58,63 



keeping quality 61 



multiplication, rapid, possibility 58 



productiveness 62 



propagation, difficult 63 



quality of fruit 61,62 



ripening, time 62 



Mokh Begry variety 57,76,100 



Names of varieties 56 



Nefta oasis 15-16 



Nefzaoua oases 17-19 



Nomenclature of varieties 56 



Oases, area covered and number of date palms 15-20 



description 



protection from sand 14, 18 



Offshoots, importation, number 10 



packing for transportation 45 



prices paid 44 



production, how stimulated 43 



removal from parent tree 44-45 



size for transplanting 44 



Okht Ammary variety 91 



Fteemy variety 79, 102 



Packing dates for shipment 54 



Planting 46-47 



Pollination 50 



relation of irrigation 48 



Population of oases 15,42,43 



Precipitation 25, 27-28, 51-52 



Preparing land for planting date palms 45 



Preserving dates 5455 



Propagation 43^5 



Rainfall. See Precipitation. 

 Reclamation. Sec Alkali. 



Remta variety 83, 98 



Rhars variety 80, 102 



Ripening of dates 51-52 



climatic factors affecting 23-26 



hastening, suggestions 52 



relation of irrigation 48 



Saline soils. See Alkali. 

 Salt. See Alkali. 



Salton Basin, Cal., climate compared with Tunis oases 22,24,25,27-28 



Sand, protection of oases 14, 18 



Sayba Boo Dra variety 86, 102 



Sba Aroossa variety 91 



Seacoast, date culture near 19,20 



Seedling date palms 43 



Selatny variety 57, 93, 104 



Shelter for young palms 47 



Shipment of dates, factors affecting 15,54 



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