100 CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



present, small, few, top-shaped; core small, open, 1-2 inch 

 or less in diameter; season December to January. 



Tree thornless, branches and branchlets slender and 

 willowy ; leaves small, resembling those of Dancy ; petioles 

 characteristically small and slender, 3-4 of an inch long. 



The fruit of this variety is very heavy, and though it 

 floats in water it sinks almost below the surface. The 

 color, while not possessing quite so much of the reddish 

 tinge as Dancy, it is decidedly darker than China. In flavor 

 it resembles Dancy, though it is distinct. Beauty is a var- 

 iety well worthy of propagation and trial. 



The only orange grower in Florida known to have this 

 variety is Cyrus W. Butler, of St. Petersburg. Mr. Butler 

 received his buds of the variety from the Agricultural De- 

 partment and Colonel Brackett informed the author that 

 it was introduced from Australia by the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture in 1893. In a letter to the writer dated 

 at Sydney, N. S. Wales, Aust., April 18, 1902, W. J. Allen, 

 Government fruit expert for that colony, says : This man- 

 darin was raised by Mr. W. H. Parker within a few miles 

 of Brisbane (Queensland), Aust., and is, I believe, a seed- 

 ling from either the' Emperor or Scarlet mandarin. The 

 original tree was raised some time in 1888 or 1889. The 

 fruit is of good size, solid, with a beautiful, thin, tough 

 rind and carries well. It is usually a good cropper and 

 proves a profitable variety to grow." 



China (China Celestial, China Mandarin, Kid-Glove, 

 Tangier ine, Willow Leaved). Form oblate, compressed; 

 size medium, 17-8x2 1-2 inches, 2 15-16 x 3 inches, usually 

 about 2 x 29-16 inches; color dark orange, shiny; apex 

 slightly scarred, depressed, depression very shallow and 

 rather broad ; base nearly smooth, somewhat necked or 

 creased, the number of creases frequently corresponding 



