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are used for boat building and which fetch a good
price when required*

During 1349 the garden produced about 60 gillas
of dates, during 1350 it produced 105 gillas, It

must be admitted that the 1349 season was a very
bad one, owing to locusts and disease, Very few
of the dates were sold, almost all of them being
consumed by B. E. Siiaikh Hamad’s household, a fact

which he rarely appears to appreciate, In addition
to the dates, households of H. E. Shaikh Hamad were

provided with locsl vegetables, vegetable marrows,
tomatoes, ladies fingers, egg plants etc. during
most of the year.
The following trees and cuttings were planted in
Sanayan during the year.

175 orange trees from Basrah
90 peaches from Eassa
8 citrons *
7 lemons n
879 date trees some from Sanayan and some from
Hassa.
The orange trees are growing extremely well,

with the exception of four they are all strong and
healthy and, though it is unusual about a dozen
trees produced blossom and would actually bear
fruit if they were allowed to*

A few apple cuttings from Hassa are growing well,
also grapes, pomegranates and apricots*
Cotton growing. The cultivation of cotton in

Bahrain is probably not a new thing, There is men-
tion of cotton being sent from Bahrain to the Caliphs
in Baghdad in historical times, but as the term

Bahrein in those days included both the islands and