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handsome price. Little fruit is shipped out of the country, as 
the production is small and the home demand great. 
The Kao Pan pummelo is not so good for shipping as the Kao 
Phuang pummelo, which is primarily the shipping variety. The 
seedless pummelo will, however, stand shipment if picked just 
before it is mature and then properly packed. Records of pum- 
melos shipped from Bangkok to Denmark show that fruits may 
arrive in good condition after a voyage of from six to eight 
months. These fruits were individually wrapped in paper, so 
as to prevent infection at points of contact, and then packed in 
a box with slat sides to allow for ventilation. Trials with ap- 
parently good results were cited in which the fruits were sent to 
Denmark after being varnished and then packed as above. 
Fruits picked one month previous and then taken by us to Canton 
and the Philippine Islands arrived in good condition after having 
been packed for one and one-half months. They were wrapped in 
paper and then packed in a woven bamboo-strip basket. Fruits 
of the Kao Pan variety picked at Ban Mai, Siam, between May 
11 and May 30, 1920, wrapped individually in paper, and packed 
in a bamboo-strip basket and shipped to Los Banos, Philippine 
Islands, arrived in excellent condition and remained so until 
August 25 (Plate 13, figs. 1 and 2). If properly picked, with 
good shipping conditions and ordinary storage conditions, the 
fruits will remain in excellent shape for two or three months. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE KAO PAN PUMMELO 
TREES 
Most of the trees of this variety are well rounded and shapely 
(Plate 10, fig. 1). Ten-year-old trees, grown from air layers, 
attain a height of 2.5 to 3 meters and a spread of 3.5 to 4.5 
meters. They are not so markedly upright as are most pummelo 
trees, but incline more to the rounded outline of the orange 
tree (Plate 10, fig. 1). As grown in Nakorn Chaisri, the trees 
are all low-headed, branching from the surface of the ground 
into two or more forks (Plate 9, fig. 2). As noted under prun- 
ing, this low-headed, forked characterestic is largely obtained 
by the growers through selection of branches for layering that 
are so shaped as to produce the type of tree they desire. 
The branches vary somewhat in the angle of growth that they 
take (Plate 10, fig. 2), but in general they tend to spread rather 
than to shoot upright. Usually the young branches take an angle 
