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CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



juice abundant, colored; pulp melting; acidity and sweet- 

 ness well blended; flavor rich, vinous; quality excellent; 

 pith small; seeds present, about fourteen in number, size 

 large, 5-8 x 5-16 inch, oval pointed or oblong wedged ; sea- 

 son February and March. 



Probably introduced through Rivers' Nurseries. 



Fig. 16. Jaffa Oranges. 



Exquisite. Form round or oblate; 2 7-8 x 2 7-8 inches, 

 23-4x3 1-16 inches ; color orange yellow ; apex rounded ; 

 base rounded, smooth; calyx very small; rind smooth, 

 tough, leathery, 1-8 inch thick ; oil cells flush with the sur- 

 face or slightly elevated; sections well defined, rather ir- 

 regular in size, thirteen in number; flesh rather coarse 

 grained, orange color; juice abundant; pulp not melting, 

 containing a little too much rag; acidity and sweetness 

 well blended; flavor very good; pith solid, small, 1-4 to 

 1-2 inch across; seeds present, oval, pointed, ridged, 5-8 x 

 3-8 inch, about twenty-eight in number; season December 

 January-February. 



Reasoner, in Bui. No. 1, Div. Pomology, U. S. D. A., 

 says that this variety was imported by General Sanford. 



