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THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



In this connection we can not help but mention the peculiar so-called 

 off-bloom fruit occurring more or less on trees of all grapefruit types. 

 This fruit is frequently misshapen, having a thick rind, ancl is as a whole 

 of inferior quality, even when ripe. The writer has no suggestion at 

 present to offer as to the causes for this condition or a remedy for it. 

 The number of these offbloom fruits seems to vary with seasonal con- 

 ditions. 



ISOLATION OF THE STANDARD TYPE. 



Enough work ha.s been done to prove that the standard and valuable 

 type of the Marsh Seedless variety can be isolated in propagation by bud 

 selection based on individual tree performance records. A method for 

 securing and using these records was presented at the meeting of the 



Fig. Ty. — do.ss .section of coarse, thick-skinned type of Marsh Seedless 

 grapefruit. Reduced. (Original.) 



California Fruit Growers' Convention at Visalia in November, and need 

 not be repeated here. There is ho doubt in the writer's mind but that 

 the standard type can he further improved by intelligent l)ud selection, 

 both as regarrls the ({uantity and quality of ])r()duction. 



ELIMINATION OF POOR TREES IN ESTABLISHED ORCHARDS. 



Perfor-mance rceords of indivi(hud l)earing trees will locate those of 

 inferior type in the estal)lished orchards. These trees can be topworked 

 successfully, using for this purpose select fruit-bearing budwood from 

 the best trees of the standard type. 



