BUD VARIATION liST THE EUREKA LEMON. 



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favorable curing conditions, the button remains gre(^n in color and 

 firmly attached to the fruit. If tlio button is cut or injured in picking, 

 it is liable to turn brown and become detached from tlie fruit during; 

 the curing process. 



SMALL-OPEN STRAIN. 



The name Small Open, as applied to this strain, is descriptive of the 

 size of the lemons and the ]ial)it of tree growth. The main point of 

 difference between this and the Eureka strain lies in the shape and size 

 of the fruits. In shape the fruits are more nearly globular, and they 

 are smaller in size than the typical fruits of the Eureka strain. The 

 habit of growth of the trees is open, like that of the trees of the Eureka 



Fig. 4.— Characteristic lemon flowers of three dif- 

 ferent strains of the Eureka variety, with part 

 or all of the stamens removed in order to 

 show the comparative development of the pis- 

 tils: A, Typical flower from a tree of the 

 Eureka strain wtli pistil fully developed; 

 B, dwarf pistil in typical flower from a tree 

 of the Shade-Tree strain; C, flower with, pis- 

 til lacking from a tree of the Dense-Unpro- 

 ductive strain, such as are frequently borne 

 by trees of the Shade-Tree strain. 



strain. In fact, from casual 

 observation little difference 

 can be detected between trees of the two strains, but the difference 

 at once becomes apparent upon close examination of the fruits. 

 Commercially, the difference in the shape of fruits is very important, 

 in that it is much more difficult to make an attractive pack with globu- 

 lar fruits than with the characteristic oblong fruits of the Eureka 

 strain. 



The production of the trees of the Small-Open strain in the perform- 

 ance-record plats has been less than that of the trees of the Eureka 

 strain. Tlie season of production is about the same as that of the Eu- 

 reka strain. The habit of growth is open. The size, shape, number, 

 and color characteristics of the leaves are the same as those of the 

 Eureka strain, so far as observations have been made. The bloom 

 characteristics are very similar to those of the Eureka strain. 



