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Excerpt from The Saidy Date of Egypt: A Variety of the First Rank Adapted to Commercial Culture in the United States The important commercial varieties of dates all agree in possessing certain characters essential to securing a market among European or American peoples. They are attractive in size and appearance, soft' and luscious in texture, and of sufficiently high sugar content and pleasing avor to appeal to the palate of the large class of customers who regard the date as a confection and as yet do not appreciate the qualities of the dry or bread dates which are most sought by the desert dwellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.