314 INDEX 



Rhars 277 



Rhazi 237 



Rhyncophorus borers 154 



Ripening, artificial, in Orient 135 



artificial, in United States 137 



chemical process 206 



natural and artificial 206 



time of, in Orient 127 



time of, in United States 127 



Rishti 277 



Ruhm al Ghazal 278 



"Rutab" dates 166 



S'aidi 279 



Sacramento Valley, dates in 28 



Salt, use of on palm 94 



Salton Basin, dates in 32, 54 



Salt River Valley for dates 28 



Samiani 279 



San Joaquin Valley, dates in 28 



Sama 279 



Sarni 279 



Sayer 280 



Sayir 127, 280 



Sba el Aroosa 281 



Scale insects on palms 149 



Scale insects, treatment of 150, 152 



Seedling dates 44, 46 



Arab theories on 77 



cultivation of 83 



freedom from scale 158 



in United States 47 



transplanting 83 



variability of 48, 85 



Seed, Arab uses of 192 



planting 82 



selection of 80 



sex of 84 



Serving dates, ways of 188 et seq. 



Sex, evidence of in offshoots 122 



Shitwi 127 



Shukkar 281 



