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as its qualities become known, for it is mildly acid and its 

 bitter principle is barely perceptible. There is no doubt, there- 

 fore, that the tangelo, which is capable of being grown 

 throughout the orange bearing belt of Florida and California, 

 will become an important commercial product from these 

 states. And who shall say that with the steady and rapid 

 progress now being made in the creation of new products of 

 plant life, we shall not during the present generation see a 

 luscious fruit in every way rivaling the largest, sweetest, most 

 tender and seedless oranges of our day successfully grown 

 throughout the entire area of the Southern States? The first 

 step towards such a consummation is hybridization. This has 

 already been taken, and we have the citrange and the tangelo, 

 the former too small and sour to serve as a substitute for 

 such an orange as we have suggested, and the latter too tender 

 to be grown so far North. The next step is selection. That 

 is; out of all of these trees that are grown under observation 

 those only are selected whose qualities it is desired to perpetu- 

 ate and improve, as size, flavor, hardihood, texture, etc. This 

 is the process by which odors have been given to flowers, colors 

 have been bleached from berries, seeds been eliminated from 

 apples and plums, briars from bushes, and poisons from plants. 

 With care and cultivation and selection scrupulously and per- 

 sistently carried out through the years, who shall say what 

 the citrange and the tangelo may not do for the whole South? 

 One sweet citrange fortuitously discovered, and serving for 

 the initial act of a process of selection, may work a revolution, 

 and such a citrange has already been found. 



Another novelty, destined, in the near future, to cut a de- 

 cided figure in the fruit markets of the world is the seedless 

 apple. 



