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is my hope that some of these very di¬ 
verse types may prove resistant to the 
blight and at the same time be excellent 
stocks in every other respect. The ac¬ 
companying photographs show all the or¬ 
dinary citrus fruits growing on a remark¬ 
able citrus relative from the Philippines— 
the Tabog or Philippine Baelfruit. This 
has trifoliate leaves and bears a hard 
shelled fruit, utterly unlike the orange in 
that it is filled with a very aromatic and 
juicy pulp and has seed chambers filled 
with gum. Nevertheless, as can be seen 
from the photographs, this promises to.be 
a most excellent stock and is among the 
most rapid growing of all the many cit¬ 
rus relatives that we have tested in our 
greenhouse. 
TESTING OUT NEW CITRUS HYBRIDS IN 
FLORIDA. 
In order to successfully carry on the 
work outlined above it will be necessary 
to have the co-operation of Florida cit¬ 
rus growers in the testing out of these 
new fruits. It is out of the question for 
the Department of Agriculture to estab¬ 
lish and maintain orange groves over a 
sufficiently wide range of soil and climate 
to give them a fair test. All we can do 
is to make the hybrids, propagate them 
and distribute budwood to co-operators 
who are willing to test out these promis¬ 
ing new fruits. 
I take this opportunity of requesting all 
Florida orange growers who are interest¬ 
ed in the trial of such new fruits to com¬ 
municate with me, care of U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington, 
D. C. 
In this way the work will be carried 
on in the most efficient manner. The mak¬ 
ing of hybrids will be largely done by ex¬ 
perts who have acquired great skill in the 
work; the propagation will be undertaken 
by other experts who, thanks to the green¬ 
house • facilities at Washington, can push 
such seedlings much more rapidly than is 
possible out of doors in Florida; while 
the testing of the fruits will be put in 
the hands of expert growers who are 
best able to look after this phase of the 
work. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Thompson: How many of the 
growers have gotten these citranges and 
what has been the result from their 
growth ? 
I would say that I secured four from 
the government and we planted them as 
we did the ordinary stock, and results 
have been far from satisfactory. They 
have not made a very good growth. The 
soil is the same as for trees that have 
outstripped them four times. 
Mr. Skinner: I received some cit- 
ranges, and the Sampson Tangelo has 
done very well. The trees look thrifty, 
but have not made as much growth as 
our trees generally make, but they seem 
to be doing fairly well and have a good, 
thrifty appearance. However, the soil is 
very poor high pine land. 
Dr. Inman: I received from the Agri¬ 
cultural Department some years ago, ten 
hybrids. They are of the grapefruit fam¬ 
ily, but what they are hybridized with, I 
cannot say nor have I had report from 
the Agricultural Department. Prof. Gal- 
