FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
143 
are lacking, the trees selected have been 
marked and the record of yield from each 
will be secured during the five or six years 
that the progeny buds are being fruited 
out—a sort of “ex-post facto” perform¬ 
ance record. In all cases, however, the 
selected trees have shown evidence of be¬ 
ing at least above the average in vigor, 
production and quality of fruit. The or¬ 
ange varieties which will be represented 
by progenies at the Lake Alfred Station 
are those selected as standard by a com¬ 
mittee of representative Florida growers 
at the Citrus Seminar in 1916. The re¬ 
cord of this committee was unanimously 
adopted by the growers attending that 
Seminar. These varieties in order of 
their season of maturity are—Parson 
Brown, Homosassa, Pineapple, Valencia 
and Lue Gim Gong. 
In addition, of course, a number of 
grapefruit progenies will be included, es¬ 
pecial attention being given to the Marsh 
Seedless, owing to the importance this va¬ 
riety has assumed in recent new plantings. 
With the orange varieties of leading 
commercial importance such as the Pine¬ 
apple and Valencia varieties, at least ten 
selected parent trees will be represented by 
a progeny of twelve budded trees each. 
These progenies will be carefully studied 
and compared as they come into fruiting 
to select from them one or more strains 
of pre-eminent vigor and fruit quality for 
further propagation. 
The plan contemplates expanding the 
progeny planting as the demand for bud- 
wood may warrant by propagation on a 
larger scale from those progenies that 
give evidence of being superior in produc¬ 
tion and quality of fruit. The Florida 
Agricultural Experiment Station will have 
exclusive control of the disposition of the 
budwood produced, which, however, it is 
expected will be offered to growers and 
nurserymen on a non-profit basis, as a 
public service proposition. No budwood, 
however, will be available until the prog¬ 
enies have been brought into fruiting suf¬ 
ficiently to prove out their inherent value 
for further dissemination. 
The carrying out of the whole plan is 
of course contingent on the interest and 
support given to the station by the grow¬ 
ers and those in a position to see that land 
and facilities are made available as needed.. 
If real bud selection appeals to you in¬ 
dividually or as a society as a project that 
marks an advance in the efficiency of the 
citrus industry in Florida you have an op¬ 
portunity to help your own interests by 
seeing that your Branch Experiment Sta¬ 
tion is given adequate support. 
