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are set to the acre. If well favored by sufficient irrigation, cultivation and 

 intense heat, these young plants will begin to bear in three or four years 

 from the seed or off-shoot. By ten years, they will attain a maximum 

 capacity of fruiting which will endure throughout the life of the palm. The 

 date is known to grow and bear fruit for at least a century. When it has thus 

 become established in orchards of the southwest, offshoots will be produced 

 in sufficient abundance to forego the necessity of importing them from 

 abroad; and their propagation will be made possible at much less cost and 

 with a greater degree of certainty than now exists. 



