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The 2007 Periscope - The Story of Dates native american plant use and hills are shown byPart I of the story of the date industry in the United States dealt with the antiquity of date cultivation, a synopsis of the early history of the date industry in the United States, and stories of the transplanting of this ancient cultivated plant to a new continent. Early experiments with planting date seeds had proved unsuccessful and by the early 1900's local farmers realized that they needed to import actual offshoots of good commercial varieties