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CITRUS FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



Placed here provisionally; it should, doubtless, be 

 grouped differently. 



Villafranca. Form oval-oblong ; size medium to large, 

 3x2 5-16 inches ; color lemon yellow, bright ; apex pointed, 

 blunt, abrupt, about 1-2 inch long ; base rounded ; calyx of 

 medium size, segments not distinctly marked ; rind smooth, 

 1-8 inch thick when cured ; oil cells depressed or flush with 

 the surface; sections eleven, well defined and regular; 

 flesh fine grained, light grayish yellow in color; juice sacks 

 slender, pointed; juice colorless, abundant; pulp melting; 

 acid clear, pure, strong; flavor good; pith small, 1-4 inch 

 across or less; seeds present, thirty in number, of medium 

 size, oval, pointed. 



The tree has but few thorns, is a good grower and very 

 productive. The variety was imported by General Sanford 

 and is, perhaps the most commonly planted variety in 

 Florida. 



Fig. 32. View in a Lemon Grove, Corona, Cal. 



