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branches, six feet six inches to the high¬ 
est fruit, and eight feet to the top of the 
tallest shoot. 
We drove across the road and into 
another pomelo grove belonging to Mr. 
Harrington. These trees were smaller, 
and we decided to make another attempt 
to measure and estimate a tree’s load. 
Selecting one as well loaded in propor¬ 
tion as the one above described, we 
found it to be seventeen feet in circum¬ 
ference around the branches and five 
feet to the topmost fruit. Quartering 
the top as before with the tapeline, two 
of us counted the fruits in one quarter, 
although with great difficulty on account 
of their crowded condition. One of 
us made seventy-nine, the other eighty- 
five, and we agreed to call it eighty. It 
was the best quarter of the tree, and 
we agreed to figure the load at 300 
fruits. They were about of the 64 size, 
which would give five boxes to the tree. 
The larger tree above described will eas¬ 
ily yield ten boxes, if not more. 
It is only just to state that the pome¬ 
lo, especially a young tree, after bearing 
such an excessive crop of fruit, gener¬ 
ally rests the following year, yielding 
little or nothing. 
Ninety-five per cent, of this fruit is 
bright. It is generally regular in form, 
though occasionally squeezed out of 
shape by the dense crowding, and even 
the fruits growing on the ground show 
no blemish as a result of it. The secret 
of these remarkable crops is good judg¬ 
ment and careful personal attention to 
details, frequent shallow cultivation of 
the tree rows, the growth of beggar- 
weed in the middles, the use of Mapes 
manures, and slight heading back of the 
tops.—S. Powers, in Florida Farmer and 
Fruit Grower. 
