BUD VARIATION IN THE EUREKA LEMON. 3 



planted in increasing numbers. The Villa Franca variety was used 

 extensively during the early period of commercial lemon planting, 

 but at the present time its propagation has been almost abandoned. 



Table III. — Fmnorts of lemons into the United States compared with lemon shipments 

 from California, for the 19-year period from 1900 to 1918, inclusive. 







Shipments 

 from 







Shipments 







Shipments 



Year. 



Imports." 



Year. 



Imports. 1 



from 



Year. 



Imports. a 



from 







Califomia.6 







California.'' 







California. f> 





Pounds. 



Pounds. 





Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



1900... 



160,198,056 



43, 410, 000 



1907... 



157,859,906 



105, 210, 000 



1913... 



151,416,412 



'■■ 69, 120, 000 



1901... 



148,514,614 



87,720,000 



1908... 



178,490,003 



148, 770, 000 



1914... 



58,019,405 



c 90,960,0(JO 



1902... 



164,075,309 



84, 480, 000 



1909... 



135,183,550 



185, 880, 000 



1915... 



] 



f 212,040,000 



1903... 



152,004,213 



79, 470, 000 



1910... 



160, 214, 785 



146, 730, 000 



1916... 



w 



1 21.5, .5X0,000 



1904... 



171, 923, 221 



83,460,000 



1911... 



134,968,924 



206, 730, 000 



1917... 



1 237,450,000 



1905. . . 



139.084,321 



128, 220, 000 



1912... 



145, 639, 396 



183,990,000 



1918... 



J 



I (■190,110,000 



1906... 



138,717,252 



113,670,000 















Years ending June 30. Figures ^from Iho Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, U. S. 

 Department of Commerce. 



b Years ending Octol>^.r 31. Figures from the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, 

 c Crops of 1913 and 1914 reduced by frosts. 



d Imports from 1915 to 1918 are e.xpressed in values rather than pounds and for this reason are not here 

 presented. 



« Crop of 1918 reduced by extreme lieat in 1917. 



HISTORY OF THE EUREKA VARIETY. 



The Eureka variety originated in Los Angeles, Calif. In 1858 Dr. 

 Halsey,* a physician of that city, received from New York City a box 

 of Sicilian lemons. From seeds of these fruits he grew a number of 

 trees in a small nursery which he owned on Alameda Street, Los 

 Angeles, near the present site of the Southern Pacific Railroad depot. 

 In 1860 Mr. Andrew Boyle purchased from Dr. Halsey several hun- 

 dred of these seedling trees. They bore very lightly until 1870 and 

 1871, at which time three or four of them were found to produce 

 smooth, thin-skinned fruits very different from the thick-skinned and 

 coarse-textured fruits produced by the other trees. In 1877 Mr. W. 

 H. Workman, son-in-law of Mr. Boyle, gave to Mr. Thomas A. Garey, 

 a prominent horticulturist of Los Angeles, buds taken from one of 

 the seedling trees which was bearing smooth, thin-skinned lemons.^ 

 Mr. Garey propagated these buds, and the trees grown from them 

 were found to bear lemons of superior quality. A large stock of the 

 trees of this variety was then grown and distributed under the name 

 of Garey's Eureka.^ Later, by common consent, the name of the 

 variety was shortened to Eureka, under which name it is now gen- 

 erally propagated and grown. 



VARIABILITY WITHIN THE VARIETY. 



The systematic studies of the variations of the California citrus 

 varieties were begun with the Washington Navel orange in 1909. 

 While carrying on studies of the variations of the Marsh grapefruit, 



1 Personal statement of Mr. W. H. Workman, 310 Washington Building, Los Angeles, Calif., March 21, 

 1917. 



2 Letter from Mr. A. T. Garey, son of Mr. Thomas A. Garey, 200 West 47th Street, Los Angeles, Calif., 

 March 19, 1917. 



