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Plants, wild, use as vegetables in Palestine and description 35 



Plum, bear, fruit of Mount Hermon, Palestine, description, etc 15 



damson, derivation of name from Damascus ' 1 



Poas, use in bread making by African negroes 47 



Pomegranate, "Bint-el-Bascha," description, etc 18 



"Malissi," varieties, description, etc 18 



Pomegranates, cultivation in Syria and Palestine, varieties, description, etc... 18 



Post, G., reference 42 



Prototypes, wild, of wheat and other cereals in Palestine 36-42 



Prunus cerasia, damson plum prototype, adaptability to United States, descrip- 

 tion, etc 15 



microcarpa, adaptability to United States, description, etc 15 



spinosa, use as apricot stock in northern Syria 17 



ursina, adaptability to United States, description, etc 15 



" Purple Damascus" grape. See Grape, "Purple Damascus." 



Pyrus nobilis, promising wild pear from Palestine 17 



syriaca, adaptability to humid regions of United States, description, etc. 16-17 



Quinces, Palestine, characteristics 18 



Rachis, brittle, in cultivated wheats 40 



grain, effect in thrashing 39 



primitive cereals 39-40 



rigid, development in barley, studies and results 39-40 



wheat, studies 40 



Rainfall and climate, Palestine 8-9 



Raisins, production in Palestine, value , 25 



Rasheyya, Palestine, origin of wild wheat, or emmer 38 



Rhine, Lower, and Westphalia Society, discovery of wild wheat, report 38 



Robenhausen, lake dwellings, discovery of emmer 42 



Russia, wheat, cultivation as forage plant 40 



introduction into United States 7 



Rye, cultivated, discovery in Syria 45-46 



origin 37 



discovery in wheat field in Damascus 45-46 



origin in Palestine 46 



not European 46 



wild, discovery in Syria, habits, history, etc 45-46 



See also Cereals and Secale. 



Safed, experiments with chick-peas 30-31 



olive-growing region of upper Galilee 21 



Sahara, bread making from Aristida pungens seeds 47 



Panicum turgidum seeds 47 



Saida, Palestine, oranges, production, varieties, and description 27 



St. John's bread tree. See Carob tree. 



"Saki," use in artificially ripening persimmons in Japan 24 



Saltbushes, Palestine, varieties and description 28 



Sand dunes. See Dunes, sand. 



Scale, olive, destruction by low temperature 21 



"Scha'ir iblisse," Arabs' name for wild barley 45 



Schamouti orange. See Orange, Schamouti. 



Schliemann, early discovery of wheat 41 



Schweinfurth, references 42, 43, 45, 48, 49, 51 



Secale cereale, growth in wheat field at Damascus 45-46 



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