430 Pomona College Journal of Economic Botany 



Redondo (Number Sixteen) 



Several round varieties have been imported among the other types and 

 these have a special advantage over the others in that they are able to be 

 packetl better and grade much more uniformly. Wlien sliijjped for any great 

 distance they are much less liable to injury in transit. The tree from which 

 this variety was derived is over a hundred years old and is forty feet high. 



Description : Form, round ; size, medium ; dimensions, length, three and 

 one-quarter, diameter, three and one-quarter inches ; weight, three-tpiarters 

 of a pound ; apex, slightly flattened ; base, round ; surface, somewhat rough ; 



Plate 179. Redondo No. 16. 



color, dark green with fairly numerous, small, yellowish, irregular, sub- 

 cutaneous dots; skin, very thick, hard and tough, separating readily from 

 the flesh; flesh, cream color, shading to greenish near the skin; texture, 

 smooth and buttery; fibre, none; flavor, rich, nutty and delicious; quality, 

 very excellent; seed, small, round-conical, tight in cavity; season, November 

 and December at Atlixco, Puebla. 



Califobnia Trapp (Number Seventeen) 



The variety known as the Trapp is the leading Florida fruit in the 

 eastern markets. It is an extremely popular fruit and comes at a season 

 when it can command the fanciest prices, i. e., from October first to January 



