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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
standing that Lue Gim Gong would be 
marketed as a late Valencia. How far 
we have departed from this recommenda¬ 
tion my review of impending varieties in¬ 
dicates. 
Under what circumstances should a new 
variety be brought out? Clearly, only 
when it fills a vacancy in our sequence or 
is distinctly superior to a fruit already es¬ 
tablished in our schedule. The citrus 
fruits produced by Florida growers can 
be divided roughly into three classes; 
namely, standard fruits, including round 
oranges and grapefruit; fancy fruits, in¬ 
cluding kid glove oranges; and novelties, 
such as tangeloes, tangeloloes, limequats, 
etc. 
Before a round orange, for example, is 
brought out it should be shown that it fills 
a distinct niche either by coming on the 
market between Valencias and Parson 
Browns or by being admittedly superior 
to one of the fruits now in the schedule, 
replacing it entirely. The same reasoning 
applies to the introduction of new fancy 
fruits. The Temple’s place in the sched¬ 
ule, as I see it, is as a fancy fruit to follow 
the tangerine, filling the vacancy between 
the tangerine and the king. It, of course, 
has the advantage that it can be handled 
and eaten as a round orange, but its par¬ 
ticular niche is in the fancy fruit column. 
Moreover, a fruit should be recom¬ 
mended for general planting only when 
it will make good on all soils and on all 
stocks. For example, the ruby blood or¬ 
ange is splendid on sour orange stock in 
the northern part of the citrus belt, but it 
is a failure in the sand hill sections on 
rough lemon. Some oranges are splendid 
in certain localities, but prove failures 
anywhere else, as for example, Drake’s 
Star, which does splendidly in the vicin¬ 
ity of Yalaha. 
Like the old Dutchman, I believe in 
only telling stories that have moral teach¬ 
ings. The moral of my story is this: 
“We have too many varieties coming on 
the market now.” We must never, of 
course, take the position that our varieties 
are perfect and that no new varieties can 
be introduced. We must always leave the 
door ajar so that a really good variety can 
get in. I propose, therefore, a permanent 
committee of the Horticultural Societv on 
“Citrus Varieties,” to be composed of five 
prominent growers who have no interest 
in a nursery, one each from northern pen¬ 
insular Florida, the Indian river section, 
Dade county, the Ridge section, and 
Southwest Florida; this committee to in¬ 
form itself concerning the value of a pro¬ 
posed new variety by each member watch¬ 
ing its performance in his particular sec¬ 
tion. The growers of the State should 
then do their part toward standardization 
by planting only such varieties as have 
been recommended for general planting by 
this committee. 
Sadler: I commenced 35 years ago to 
get information on the best oranges grown 
in Florida, and I got information from 
the American Agriculture report and 
when I got through I had two groves of 
20 acres of this kind and when they came 
to bear I found the cluster orange was the 
best bearing. When I came to test them, 
I might say they were like two drops of 
vinegar in a quart of water. I was thank- 
