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ful that I got rid of them. Another thing 
I might mention is my experience with 
the blood orange. He said they would not 
do well on lemon stock. My groves are 
budded on lemon stock and I find only 
once in a while that I make a mistake. 
My groves bear when healthy. Next 
thing in regard to Mrs. Moorhead, she is 
working to allow us to sell more fruit. 
When a witness is called he is pledged to 
tell nothing but the truth. In this case I 
want to suggest that you men tell the 
whole truth and nothing but the truth. 
You all know the sentiment expressed 
years ago. The best way to eat an orange 
is to drink the juice; it is the nicest and 
cleanest way and you do not squirt it in 
your eyes. Let me tell you, this fall I 
did not want to eat oranges with a spoon 
so I commenced to drink my glass of or¬ 
ange juice. I can realize how some men 
were without their glass of beer for break¬ 
fast. I have gotten so I don’t want to eat 
breakfast without my glass of orange 
juice. I want everybody here and in the 
State of Florida to say that the only way 
to eat an orange is to drink the juice. I 
am telling the whole truth. That is also 
the best way to eat a grapefruit. You do 
not get the bitter. You can also eat two, 
or possibly three, grapefruit instead of a 
half of a one. In five years we will have 
many grapefruit and we have got to teach 
that the only way to eat an orange or 
grapefruit is to drink the juice. 
Skinner: Any further questions ? 
King: I notice those who spoke of the 
citrus root stock mentioned lemon, rough 
lemon, sour orange and grapefruit and I 
wish to ask if they have had any experi¬ 
ence with the bitter-sweet. 
-: It is used to a very limited 
extent. It is quite promising. 
-: There are some groves on 
Merritt’s Island that have bitter-sweet 
stock. 
-: Do they do well on pine 
lands ? 
-: I don’t think they have been 
tried out there. 
Skinner: I have a grove at Sutherland 
in which 500 trees are inarched. Some 
are inarched with sour stock and others 
with lemon. The lemon stock is absolute¬ 
ly no good and sour oranges are all right. 
Gill, of Maitland: Can you tell how~ 
long after the little seedling is planted that 
you can inarch ? 
Skinner: Immediately. 
McKay: I wish to state an experience 
of mine in inarching. I did not find it 
very successful. In the first place the 
trees have a very poor foundation to rest 
on. I could never get them to support the 
tree, but maybe I did not do it right. 
Skinner: I don’t think you should 
bend it. Of course if you have a bend it 
will try to sprout a bud every time. The 
rough lemon has no tap root. Should that 
statement be allowed to go unchallenged? 
Waite: In the last four or five years 
I have transplanted old trees on low ham¬ 
mock land and wherever I found one with¬ 
out a tap root it was rough lemon. The 
grapefruit had much tap root. 
-: I have planted orange trees 
ever since I was three knees high, bud- 
