BUD SELECTION IN THE VALENCIA ORANGE 
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and are firmly attached to the fruits, it being only rarely that one 
falls or is broken. 
A limb variation of the Persistent-Style strain was found in a 
normal Valencia tree in the original performance-record plots of 
the Valencia orange. The fruits borne by this limb have continued 
to show generally the characteristic persistent style during the entire 
period of observation, but in a few instances typical fruits have failed 
Fig. 6. — Fruits of the Dwarf strain (left), which were produced on the progeny tree 
shown in Figure 5, in comparison with normal (right) Valencia orange fruits. River- 
side, Calif., January, 1926. (About three-fourths natural size) 
to develop the persistent style, and a small number of apparently 
normal fruits have been produced by this limb. The foliage of this 
limb variation has been the same as that of typical trees of this 
strain, having the clustered leaves with short internodes characteristic 
of the vegetative growth of the strain. 
Two trees propagated in 1915 from this Persistent-Style variation 
are being grown in the progeny orchard, and one of them is shown 
in Figure 7 with a fruit produced by the same tree. 
