CHAPTER XXV. 

 JUDGING CITRUS FRUITS. 



Rules and regulations for the judging of most of the 

 citrus fruits were adopted by the Florida State Horticultu- 

 ral Society in 1892 and by the Executive Committee of the 

 Los Angeles, Cal., Chamber of Commerce in 1894, and 

 these at present are the standards for the respective States. 

 In neither of these sets of scales is any provision made 

 for the pomelo, and since this fruit has come to take its 

 place along with the orange and lemon as an exceedingly 

 important citrus fruit, it seems but right that provision 

 should be made for judging it. 



Such a provision is here made by the following scale 

 for pomelos, which has been prepared after having gone 

 carefully over the ground with Messrs. G. L. Taber, E. N. 

 Reasoner and E. S. Hubbard: 



OFFICIAL SCALE AND RULES OF THE FLORIDA STATE 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR JUDGING CITRUS FRUITS. 



Scale. Points. 



Size, 21/2 to 31/4 inches 10 



Appearance, skin fancy and silky 10 



Juiciness, must sink in water 10 



Thickness of peel, 3-32 inch 10 



Seedlessness, one point off for two seeds 10 



Sweetness 15 



Acid 15 



Tissue 10 



Konqnet 10 



