Old Mission Dates. B17 
allowed to remain in the row as originally planted, and they 
have attained great size, considering their crowded condition. 
They are approximately six feet apart, have trunks about two 
feet in diameter, and are twenty-five feet or more in height. 
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Date Palm at the San Diego Mission. 
Another bearing date palm stands about a mile eastward 
of the situation just described, near the residence of J. R. Wollf- 
skill. It was grown from seed of the date of commerce, which 
was planted in 1863, and the tree bore its first fruit in 1880. In 
the plate which shows this tree there also appears upon the left 
a taller date palm, which bears staminate bloom, as will be 
mentioned presently. This latter tree was originally one of the 
row previously described, and was successfully moved to its 
present situation after attaining considerable size. 
