Bui. 1125, U. S. Dept. of "Agriculture. 
Plate VII, 
Fig. I . — Offshoots of Saidy Dates as They Arrived at the Packing Sheds 
of the Horticultural Experiment Station, Gizeh, Egypt. 
Photographed by the author in May, 1920. 
Fig. 2. — One of the 450 Crates Used in Packing the 9,000 Date-Palm 
Offshoots Shipped from Gizeh, Egypt, to Indio, Calif. 
Photographed by the author in May. 1920. 
