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ded all kinds of them and on all kinds of 
stock and made all sorts of experiments, 
and I have experimented with the sour 
orange a great deal. I have found that the 
sour orange succeeds well on low ham¬ 
mock but I have found that nothing com¬ 
pares with the rough lemon on high sandy 
lands. I can show any man trees budded 
on rough lemon stock 25 or 30 years old 
today, that are as fine as any in the State 
of Florida on the highest hills and they 
bear good crops that look perfectly healthy 
and they have never been irrigated. I 
think the rough lemon is far preferable 
and will state right here I am making ex¬ 
periments with a new stock. It originated 
in South Florida and is very promising 
because of its hardiness and its growth. 
It stays dormant all winter. I am banking 
on it as much as any I have made and I 
have made eight or ten and they have all 
been a faliure. 
Skinner: I have a grove of ten acres 
on lemon root from which I have taken 
off in one season 16,000 boxes. I think 
it is wonderful if the sour orange can 
match it. 
Bouis: I have been most deeply inter¬ 
ested in a search for a root stock that 
would meet the ideals of these stocks. In 
consultation with a number of very well 
informed and expressed gentlemen, I have 
had my attention drawn to the Cleopatria 
stock. I would like to ask Mr. Evans, 
who referred to it in his remarks, if he can 
give more detailed information and what 
experience he has had with that root stock. 
I would like to get some information. 
O’Byrne: Very little so far is known 
of the Cleopatria as a root stock and I be¬ 
lieve as in the case of varieties that the 
matter of root stock should be thoroughly 
tested in all sections of the State before 
any general recommendations are made. 
However, we have present Mr. E. N. Rea- 
soner, who can probably tell us something 
about that. 
Mr. Reasoner: Bouis and I have gone 
over that matter and we found that the 
Cleopatria stocks which I had budded a 
good many years ago with Oneco, Man¬ 
darin, Homosassa orange and grapefruit, 
and located on high very well drained 
land, were the best trees in this ten-acre 
grove. The Cleopatria turned out to be 
the best stock and it is the finest I know. 
Some of the people have some of our 
stock on Cleopatria and don’t know it. I 
would like to know of any one that has 
any trees on Cleopatria stock and how 
they are doing. They are very resistant 
stock to cold and drought. Cleopatria 
growing under the same conditions as 
rough lemon and sour orange is better in 
these days of drought. They bear more 
fruit, the quality is finest in the world, ab¬ 
solutely the best. They hold juice to the 
end of the season. I don’t know whether 
you know it or not, but I think my brother 
was the first man to use rough lemon 
stock in Florida. I think after the rough 
lemon has been used that we ought to see 
whether there is any better. I just want 
to see what is to be done about it. 
Bouis: I am interested in both rough 
lemon and sour orange for stock. They 
are both good in their places. I would not 
have either one in the other’s place. I 
find, however, that there are limitations 
in both of these root stocks. Mr. Reason- 
