Grapefruit Tree in full bearing 
Citrus and Tropical Fruit 
CITRUS FRUIT 
Citrus fruits have long been considered the best 
commercial fruit crop for Florida. The rich color¬ 
ing of the fruit and the handsome green foliage is 
making it very popular as an ornamental subject 
as well as a valuable subject for domestic use. 
Our stock is grown from tested varieties that are 
best adapted to all parts of Florida. It is grown 
of root stock selected for all soil conditions. We 
are featuring as a root stock the sour orange for 
low heavy soils, Cleopatra mandarine for medium 
high land, and rough lemon for extremely high 
sandy locations. 
GRAPEFRUIT [1] or Pomelo (Citrus grandis). 
Royal. One of our early introductions and prob¬ 
ably the best of the sweet grapefruits. Rather 
small for commercial purposes, this variety lacks 
the “bitter” quality almost altogether and is fine 
for eating out of the hand. In season it is medium 
early. 
Grapefruit properly prepared as a fruit salad 
Duncan. This is one of the hardiest grapefruits 
known and considered one of the best for gen¬ 
eral planting. Clear yellow in color, and of good 
size, it is very juicy and finely flavored. The 
Duncan has everything a Grapefruit should have 
and is lacking in no particular. 
Foster. This variety has won friends wherever 
tested, and in its season, which may be early to 
fairly late, is the finest sort known. It is a sport 
from Walters, originating in the mammoth At¬ 
wood grove at Manavista, has a rose-pink color 
(instead of the common yellow flesh), especially 
attractive during the Christmas holidays, and at 
that time brings a fancy price on that account, 
the color showing through the skin more or less. 
It is not very acid or bitter and on proper stocks, 
with non-cultivation, which we firmly believe in, 
holds until May or even June, but loses its color 
in warm weather. 
Marsh Seedless. While not of high quality, it is 
practically seedless and very late, the fruit hold¬ 
ing over to early summer. 
Thompson. A new variety of which much has been 
said and written by several of our leading hor¬ 
ticulturists. We refer to the “Journal of Hered¬ 
ity,” “The Citrus Industry,” and “The Florida 
Grower.” It is a sport from Marsh Seedless occur¬ 
ring alongside one of our nurseries here at Oneco 
on the property of Mr. W. B. Thompson, for whom 
it is named. It has a good pink-colored flesh 
during winter, but like Foster loses this later 
with the advent of warm weather. The shape of 
this fruit is nearer round than that of its parent, 
slightly larger, and in quality far in advance! It 
holds on the tree very much better than Marsh 
Seedless. 
CALAMONDIN [2] (Citrus mitis). A small tree 
from the Philippines, occasionally everbearing, 
producing very freely small oblate fruits about 
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