CHAPTER XVII. 



CITRUS AND OTHER FRUITS. 



There* s a special fruit for everybody's taste ; take your choice. 



APRICOT. This delicious fruit is like both peach 

 and plum. It can be grown, under right conditions, 

 as far north as western New York, being about as 

 hardy as the peach and requiring the same special con- 

 ditions. Borers, rot and the curculio are the principal 

 enemies. 



AVOCADO OR AUJGATOR PEAR. Occasionally 

 grown in southern Florida. 



CITRON. This is a small, bush-like tree which 

 bears a large, thick-rinded fruit which somewhat 

 resembles a lemon in appearance. Grown to a mod- 

 erate extent in Florida and California, for preserves. 



CRAB AppiyE. The best-known varieties are : 

 Hyslop ; Martha ; Red Siberian ; Transcendent ; Whit- 

 ney ; Yellow Siberian ; etc. For insects, fungous 

 troubles, culture, etc., see chapter on The Apple. 



DATE PAI.M. Occasional plantings of this noble 

 tree are to be found in Florida, Mexico, Arizona, 

 California, etc. The dry, even climate of Arizona will 

 probably produce this fruit better than any other 

 place in the United States. 



FIG. Except on the Pacific coast or in the far 



South, fig trees are not commercially successful in this 



country. But by bending the trees down to the 



ground in the fall and covering them, or by growing 



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