104 CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



acidity and sweetness well blended; flavor rich and 

 sprightly; quality excellent; pith open, 3-4 inch 

 across; seeds seven to twenty, rather small, short 

 and blunt or top-shaped and beaked; season December 

 and January. 



Tree compactly headed, rather upright though tending 

 to spread as the head is opened from year to year by the 

 weight of the fruit, densely foliaged, fruit exposed on the 

 outer portion of the tree. Dancy has been more generally 

 planted than any other variety of the group. Its high color 

 combined with excellent quality makes it a particularly 

 fine variety. It is commonly known throughout Florida 

 and in the markets as tangierine. The variety Dancy is 

 said to have originated as a seedling at Buena Vista, St. 

 Johns County, Fla. The parent tree was raised by Col. 

 Geo. L. Dancy and was introduced into cultivation in 

 1871 or early in 1872. It has proved to be a very prolific 

 variety. 



Pliny Reasoner says that Dancy is a seedling of China. 

 I am inclined to doubt this, for if such were the case it is 

 not likely that it would prove so strongly prepotent as 

 it is. Every seedling of Dancy observed bears a strong 

 resemblance to the parent. Moreover, in a letter dated 

 at Palatka, Fla., Jan. 1, 1903, Miss S. W. Moragne states 

 that a tangierine tree was growing on her father's place 

 when it was purchased about 1843, and further states that 

 China was not the first of the group grown in Florida. 

 Twigs of trees propagated from the original strongly re- 

 semble Dancy. The author believes that Dancy originated 

 from this variety. 



King (King of Siam). (Bui. Div. Pomology, U. S. 

 D. A. 1:73, 1887). Form oblate ; size large, 23-8x3 inches, 

 3 1-16 x 3 3-4 inches, 3 3-8 x 4 1-4 inches ; color deep orange ; 



