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sufficiently to identify it on the 250,000 
trifoliata seedlings: 
TEXAS 
At Port Arthur and at Nona, 40 miles 
north of Port Arthur, there is an exten¬ 
sive nursery business consisting largely 
of citrus. Satsumas appear to be the prin¬ 
cipal variety of citrus planted and these 
do well here. The writer had the privi¬ 
lege of sampling some satsuma fruit that 
had hung on the trees all winter and 
found it excellent. This was on March 
24th. 
At Alvin and vicinity there are exten¬ 
sive plantings of satsumas, but some 
oranges, pomelos and lemons, all on tri¬ 
foliata roots, have also been planted. 
An extensive nursery business, principally 
citrus, is also carried on. On account 
of a heavy rain setting in, only about one- 
half day could be spent here in looking 
about. 
Brownsville, McAllen and San Benito, 
in Southern Texas, were next visited. Cit¬ 
rus trifoliata roots fail in this part of 
Texas and sour orange roots are mainly 
employed. Many young citrus trees are 
being planted and the nurseries at Mc¬ 
Allen and San Benito are prospering. All 
this, notwithstanding the fact that citrus 
in Texas was seriously injured by cold in 
1911. Sour, bitter-sweet, and other citrus 
seedlings appear to thrive well in Browns¬ 
ville, and while commercial plantings in 
this part of Texas are generally irrigated, 
seedling trees in house yards at Browns¬ 
ville thrive without it. In general, it is 
apparent that Texas intends to continue 
in citrus culture. 
At Port Arthur, citrus canker was 
present in the principal nursery there. 
Pomeld, trifoliata, sweet orange, sat¬ 
suma, mandarin, tangerine, all except 
kumquat, were found infected. Four 
or five oranges, on a sweet orange tree 
capable of bearing several boxes of 
fruit, were found infected with canker. 
One of these oranges had at least a dozen 
cankers on the rind, while the others had 
only two or three. 
No citrus canker was found at Nona, 
although trifoliata seedlings from infect¬ 
ed territory at Port Arthur had recently 
been planted there. 
At Alvin the disease was found on: 
Duncan pomelo—leaves and twigs; 
Citrus trifoliata—twigs; 
Dugat orange—leaves only; 
Villa Franca lemon—leaves and twigs 
(small trees exposed to disease among C. 
T.); 
Ponderosa lemon—leaves (small trees 
exposed to diseases among C. T.) ; 
Kumquats—not found infected. 
To what extent citrus canker is gener¬ 
ally distributed in the Alvin section was 
not determined, since, as previously stated, 
excessive rains interfered with the 
writer’s getting about. 
None of the citrus canker was found 
in south Texas. A full day was spent in¬ 
specting trees at Brownsville, but only a 
few hours each, between trains, at McAl¬ 
len and San Benito. Not finding any of 
this disease in south Texas, nor at Mhta- 
moras, Mexico, disposes of the surmise 
that it might have been introduced from 
Mexico. 
