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PALESTINE. Dr. A. Aaronsohn, the newly appointed Director 
of an Agricultural Experiment Station established in Pal- 
estine under the patronage of the German Government, will 
visit this country in June. Mr. Aaronshon is probaby 
the best informed "botanist in Palestine. He has had a. 
horticultural training at Montpellier, Prance, and is a 
doctor of philosophy from one of the German Universities. 
His discovery of wild e miner in the mountains of Haphtalie 
attracted the attention of Prof. Schweinf urth , the German 
African explorer, who first called our attention to his 
work. He is coming to this country to spend several 
months in studying the conditions of agriculture, par- 
ticularly in the southern and southwestern States. A re- 
markable letter pointing out the presence in Palestine of 
new varieties of durum wheat, berseem, wild olives, wild 
almonds, new Crataegus stocks for southern apples, wild 
prunes, oranges, apricots, etc., is on file in this office 
and will be sent to any one asking for it. Mr. Aaronsohn 
has made three expenditions around the Dead Sea and is 
deeply interested in alkali resistant crops and dry land 
agriculture. Dr. Aaronsohn desires to meet as many as 
possible of the Bureau staff interested in the agricul- 
ture of the southern and southwestern states. 
