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STRAINS OP MINOR ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE 
Other limb and tree variations have been noted during these in- 
vestigations which are apparently of less frequent occurrence or of 
less striking appearance and hence of minor economic importance. 
The performance records of five progeny trees which were propa- 
gated from four such small limb variations in otherwise normal trees 
are presented in Table 14. Fruits of progeny trees Nos. 10-33 and 
11-29 are shown in Figures 18 and 19, respectively. 
Fig. 15. — Trees of the Misshapen-Leaf strain of the Valencia orange which were 
propagated from a similar limb variation. Leaves from one of these trees are shown 
in Figure 16, and typical fruits are illustrated in Figure 17. University of California 
Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, Calif., June, 1925 
Table 14. — Records of annual production of progeny trees propagated from 
various limb variations of the Valencia orange compared with records from 
a progeny tree propagated from the normal part of one of the same parent 
trees 
Source of buds 
Number of fruits produced by progeny trees 
Prog- 
eny 
tree 
Par- 
ent 
tree 
No. 
Limb 
Like parent-limb variation 
Valencia strain 
No. 
cs 
C5 
<N 
o 
CO 
<N 
CN 
CN 
OS 
cn 
OS 
I 
OS 
CO 
CN 
J, 
CN 
"c3 
o 
EH 
I 
OS 
CN 
CN 
CO 
C3 
CN 
CO 
CN 
C3 
CO 
S 
CN 
OJ 
"a 
o 
Eh 
"3 
o 
Eh 
10-33 
10-34 
11-13 
11-29 
1 106 
138 
146 
162 
162 
[Limb bearing long yel- 
< low, pebbled fruit 
[ with orange stripes. 
Limb bearing small, 
yellow ridged fruit 
Limb bearing coarse, 
yellow ridged fruit 
with or ange-col ored 
i; 


i 
26 
22 
18 
38 
49 
10 
4 
12 
52 
46 
10 

61 
87 
21 
4 


67 
30 
78 
48 
237 
75 
91 
136 
81 
328 
319 
238 
9 
5 
2 
5 
8 
51 
76 
13 
20 
70 
62 
128 
116 
38 
44 
169 
163 
244 
261 
18 
79 
245 
86 
68 
181 
6 
3 
177 
113 
137 
267 
117 
249 
410 
219 
379 
910 
197 
397 
1,076 
651 
1,007 
1,046 
278 
725 
1,395 
11-49 
11-51 
Limb bearing granu- 
1 ar-textured fruit with 
tendency to ribbing. _ 
889 
1,007 
The trees of these strains are very similar to those of the Valencia 
strain. The fruits differ from the normal ones in color, texture, and 
to some extent in shape, as indicated in the table, and they are all of 
a commercial quality inferior to the fruits of the Valencia strain. 
