BUD VARIATION IN THE EUREKA LEMON. 
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favorable curing conditions, the button remains green in color and 
firmly attached to the fruit. If the button is cut or injured in picking, 
it is liable to turn brown and become detached from the 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 habit 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 ofthreedif- 
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 with 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. The 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. 
