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good shelter when young, After two failures a com-
paratively good crop was obtained in some parts of
the garden.

In November California barley was planted in the
northern part of the garden and this produced a suc­

cessful crop which is being kept for seed, This
brand of barley seems to thrive well and is evidently
suited to Bahrain.

Various vegetable seeds were also sown in this
garden with mixed results, Some of them partly
succeeded, some failed to germinate and others died

after germination, The reasons for the failures
are attributed to.-
1. Excessive saltness of the soil,
2. High winds at time of germination.

3. TCater by irrigation.
The following vegetables have grown very success-
fully Beans, lettuce, cauliflowers, turnips,

potatoes, beetroot, spinach, radish and a crop of
linseed grew well in one part of the garden but failed
completely in another part.

The following trees, grown from seed, hove been
planted in the Palace garden, scented acacia farnaciona
and parkinsonia acculata.. About 25 orange trees, from

Busrah, were also planted, but they are not doing as
well as in Sanayan.
Municipal Garden. Flower seeds were planted in

October, in tubs but very few of them succeeded,
thoaa that grew best were stocks and wallflowers-.
It has now been proved that seeds are more successful