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loway, visiting Winter Haven, was very 
favorably impressed with the fruit from 
these trees. One tree is full of fruit that 
has changed but very little. We expect 
it to carry its fruit until late in July this 
.season. 
Mr. Temple: I understood the gentle¬ 
man to ask what experience any of the 
growers had had with the trifoliate base 
on high pine land. If that was the ques¬ 
tion, I have had some experience with it 
and am perfectly willing to give it to 
you. 
About six years ago, I bought one 
thousand buds of trifoliata stock—kum- 
quats, grapefruit, King oranges and half 
a dozen other. While the King did fairly 
well, the kumquats did exceptionally welL 
but above all things the successful one 
was the grapefruit. I have over 200 
grapefruit trees on trifoliata stock that 
we set out close together because we were 
given to understand that they would not 
make very large trees. I have already 
had to take out every other tree, and will 
have to take out every other tree again. 
Last year, which was five years from 
the planting of these buds, we picked and 
marketed four and one-half boxes of 
grapefruit to the tree from every one of 
the grapefruit budded on trifoliata. 
Prof. Hume: I think we must con¬ 
cede that Prof. Swingle is bound to win 
out. Some of us have had our doubts 
about it, but I must say that I believe 
if he lives long enough and works hard 
enough, he is going to succeed. Those of 
us who know Prof. Swingle, are sure 
that he will work hard enough, and we 
all hope he will live long enough to bring 
about this result—and then some. 
I believe one of these days he will pre¬ 
sent us with an orange tree that will 
stand temperatures we have not dreamed 
of.* 
Dr. Inman: I would like to* ask Mr. 
Temple how his trees have withstood the 
recent cold we have had. 
Mr. Temple : Not only the recent cold 
does not seem to have affected that grape¬ 
fruit, either the tree or the fruit, any 
more than it has the orange trees on the 
place, but in truth the trifoliata grape- 
fruit shows less effect from the frost than 
the grapefruit we have there which were 
seedlings, or budded on the lemon or sour 
stock. 
Mr. -: What soil is it ? 
Mr. Temple: What you would call 
high hammock—that is, pine with some 
oak growth interspersed through it. 
