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== The Palm of Egypt ==
Finding myself for various months in the most beautiful countryside of Basso – Egypt, owned by the late Mr. Serra and adorned with six thousand Palms sown by him, I had the idea of getting information from the indigenous people on something that is ignored in Europe, about this majestic, unique, and most useful plant.

=== Sowing/Planting of the Kernel ===
''''Naua-el-ballah Glu' Nauaja'''' (date pits) are distinguished by an external making from which the ''''Male or Female'''' tree is born, but it seems in general that they have disregarded this advantageous difference. Even many families of eastern Egypt, many farmers and even vendors of this fruit, ensure that the pits that are of the opposite part from the longitudinal DICIZIONE that have a small round circle with a point in the center; the ones that are sowed produce fruit bearing trees (that is ''''female'''') and from the other pits without the distinction produce ''''male'''' trees, which flower but do not bear fruit. 
Planted during autumn in fertile soil and irrigated after around fifteen days, the pit begins to germinate; at a month, it produces some small leaves which remain long, narrow, and grooved lengthwise until around eight months, and there are no more than five or six of these leaves which vary in height depending on how favorable the circumstances of the terrain are by one or two palms.

===Metamorphosis of the Leaves  ===
At this previously mentioned age, these leaves, joined like the blade of a spear and all the same shape, change their form, splitting apart at their grooves like a compass; positioned one within the other to form a branch adorned with narrow, long, and TERRUCINANTI leaves with very sharp thorns. 
Each month the plant forms one of these branches, destroys the previous ones, and the more it grows the more branches it produces in the span of a year.  
At this age, the branches grow to fifty to one hundred centimeters long and have a diameter of around a meter, but the trunk grows very little and remains short.

===  How to Recognize the Age of a Palm ===
Recognizing the age of a palm is not a problem that needs to be solved, but the range of development that this plant shows can mislead someone. This is seen by the palms that are twenty to thirty feet tall that are twenty to thirty years old compared to others that are five feet tall, yet are the same age. 
It is said that the palm lives for two to three centuries, and it grows in the Memfi region as high as eighty to one hundred feet. To know a Palm's true age, one does not count the number of GERIT cuts as many believe, but rather (in general) four cuts, one on top of the other, equals one year, since around there are so many cuts around the plant.

===The Various Forms of a Palm ===
Farmed palms generally have a cylindrical trunk, but some vary in being a straight, cone-shaped, or backwards; one sees from the perforations in different parts of the trunks, from others areas that are thin and worn out at a certain height, and at times in forests when they are abandoned and create offspring, a kind of beneficial shady area in oases, the external plants bend towards the ground, they produce a root at the halfway point of the trunk, and little by little it curves towards the center to form a semi-circle shaped tree.

===Circumcision of the Palm  ===

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The Palm of Egypt

Finding myself for various months in the most beautiful countryside of Basso – Egypt, owned by the late Mr. Serra and adorned with six thousand Palms sown by him, I had the idea of getting information from the indigenous people on something that is ignored in Europe, about this majestic, unique, and most useful plant.

Sowing/Planting of the Kernel

'Naua-el-ballah Glu' Nauaja' (date pits) are distinguished by an external making from which the 'Male or Female' tree is born, but it seems in general that they have disregarded this advantageous difference. Even many families of eastern Egypt, many farmers and even vendors of this fruit, ensure that the pits that are of the opposite part from the longitudinal DICIZIONE that have a small round circle with a point in the center; the ones that are sowed produce fruit bearing trees (that is 'female') and from the other pits without the distinction produce 'male' trees, which flower but do not bear fruit. Planted during autumn in fertile soil and irrigated after around fifteen days, the pit begins to germinate; at a month, it produces some small leaves which remain long, narrow, and grooved lengthwise until around eight months, and there are no more than five or six of these leaves which vary in height depending on how favorable the circumstances of the terrain are by one or two palms.

Metamorphosis of the Leaves

At this previously mentioned age, these leaves, joined like the blade of a spear and all the same shape, change their form, splitting apart at their grooves like a compass; positioned one within the other to form a branch adorned with narrow, long, and TERRUCINANTI leaves with very sharp thorns. Each month the plant forms one of these branches, destroys the previous ones, and the more it grows the more branches it produces in the span of a year. At this age, the branches grow to fifty to one hundred centimeters long and have a diameter of around a meter, but the trunk grows very little and remains short.

How to Recognize the Age of a Palm

Recognizing the age of a palm is not a problem that needs to be solved, but the range of development that this plant shows can mislead someone. This is seen by the palms that are twenty to thirty feet tall that are twenty to thirty years old compared to others that are five feet tall, yet are the same age. It is said that the palm lives for two to three centuries, and it grows in the Memfi region as high as eighty to one hundred feet. To know a Palm's true age, one does not count the number of GERIT cuts as many believe, but rather (in general) four cuts, one on top of the other, equals one year, since around there are so many cuts around the plant.

The Various Forms of a Palm

Farmed palms generally have a cylindrical trunk, but some vary in being a straight, cone-shaped, or backwards; one sees from the perforations in different parts of the trunks, from others areas that are thin and worn out at a certain height, and at times in forests when they are abandoned and create offspring, a kind of beneficial shady area in oases, the external plants bend towards the ground, they produce a root at the halfway point of the trunk, and little by little it curves towards the center to form a semi-circle shaped tree.

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