Bui. 223, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate I. 



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A 9-Year-0ld Date Tree in the Cooperative Date Garden, Tempe, Ariz. 



A large number of offshoots, shown both at tbe base of the trunk and on its sides, are 

 trimmed up and ready for removal. 



