4: 3. In it better tk to Mipit EN 
A, 3, Trrigation is not Erotic to tie htc D 
@ 4. How many years after the. seed i is sown does it produce fruit : > * 2-] 
A. 4. The tree begins to produce fruit two years after being graf ted, m UM 
deg 5. Is the tree ever grafted ? ud 
: pu ute is invariably ctm 
e 6. A trees male and fem 
A. 6. The ‘distinction fervat ae and female is not understood 
; es bearing much fruit of a good quality, viz., short 
ds thick seeds, nh Sippused to be ie while those giving a poor 
„crop of long thin seeds are popularly held to be male. Grafting is done, 
however, E "the most fertile and jx oe tree, i.e., the ' 
female. Few so-called males thus exist. * 
hy a 2 digo is the yield of fruit the first year they come into fruit ? : 
a. T. st year after beginning to bear the vend is very small, 
only after n years of age does the tree give a good er 
Q.8. "What i is the comparative vield of frult each year afterwards ? 
MET A, 8. The comparative yield of a tree largely depends upon circum- i 
stances unknown; trees all proceeding from the same seeds giving = 
e ta in ue and erop. Twenty to 50 okes are oh gent an e 
trees give as much as 30 rottles; very rare, a 
Hiis ay four or five tottles: renscna unknown. . The Pi io like 
He wie, ie alternate years of good and bad crops. (1 oke=2°8 lbs. ; 
] rottle=2 okes es.) 
s T m many years do they remain in bearing ? 
A. 9. Ordinary good trees bear along time, 60 to 80 ye ars. Excessive 
frost somtimes im. them up, when they are. eut Sigel and uprooted as 
shoots never ; es 
Gh te ut cnt doce is np piow cerning up ae 
0. "The tree attains the height of i to 15 ves p 
1l. In what kind of land does it thrive best P 
1. It thrives best in a whiteish chalky ap soil which retains — 
isture ; in this and many other aie it resembles the olive. | 
Q. 12. Will it thrive on jud soil 
A. 12, It thrives also on 1 ocky, ae soil, with about, 25,to 30 hn 
of ‘soil. The roots seeking moisture amongst the r ocks, M 
= € 13. ied it grow better by the sca or inland ? Nu 
4.18. Attempts to grow by the sea have never been tried. n "m 3 
only found island; the climate of which is 
Q TX No is the rainfall at Alep] ? 
i rainfall at Aleppo is unknown. Iti is soak ieee 
: pu 15 inches, ud m half the fall on the coast Jine, which is 
mountainous. Asa rule the rainy months are January, eyes. ud. 
Mach; between May. Ad end of October no rain falls. : 
Note,—If a nursery of young trees could be raised at Cypru grafts — 
from Aleppo ee be iain a bes young, trees attain a eigin ol e i 
uu nite 6 aai, c 7 t. 
