Bui. 271 , U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate III. 



Fig. 1.— A Plantation of Amri Dates near the Village of Birket el Hadji, Prop- 

 erty OF THE OMDA OF THE VILLAGE. 



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Fig. 2.— Date Trees of Amhat and Siwah Varieties Alternating with Corn 

 Fields in the Rich Nile Bottom Lands near Bedrashcn, in Gizeh Province. 



