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CITRUS FRUITS 
Prices Subject to Market Conditions 
ORANGES 
Washington Navel. The famous winter ripening Orange. Large 
fruits easily peeled and broken into segments. Thrives best a few 
miles from the coast. Can be grown any place in California where 
citrus is grown. December to May. 
Valencia Orange. Best summer orange, ripens from April to De- 
cember after the Navel season is over. Thus ripe oranges can be 
had through the summer and fall. Juicy, sweet and few seeded. 
LEMONS 
Eureka. The leading lemon for commercial and home planting. 
Fruit uniformly medium size, juicy, and few seeded. Most of the fruit 
is ripened during the summer but bears throughout the year. 
Meyer Lemon. Semi-dwarf. Fruit large, oval and deeply orange 
yellow in color. Hardy throughout most of California. Laden with 
fruit most of the year. 
LIMES 
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Bearss Seedless. Finest and largest of all limes. Seedless, juicy 
fruits ripen mostly during the summer, when limes are in demand. 
Large, vigorous and almost thornless. 
Rangpur Lime. Fruits look very much like Tangerines, both skin and 
pulp being reddish-orange. Acid fruit. November to March. Stand- 
ards and Bush forms. 
Mexican Lime. Small light green fruits, oval in shape, strongly 
acid but highly flavored. Semi-dwarf, ripens fruits most of the year 
but main crop comes in spring. 
LIMEQUAT 
Eustis. The parents of this citrus fruit are Mexican Lime and Kum- 
quat. One of the finest of small citrus. Fruits are like small thin 
skinned yellow limes, very juicy and almost seedless. Excellent for 
beverages. 
KUMQUAT 
Nagami. Semi-dwarf tree giving abundant crops of small egg- 
shaped golden orange fruits most of the year. Hardy and very 
ornamental. 
TANGELO 
Sampson. Golden yellow fruits with delicious orange-red juice 
combining the flavor of tangerine with grapefruit. February to May. 
LIME, RANGPUR KUMQUAT, NAGAMI 
GRAPEFRUIT 
Marsh Seedless. Compact growing variety widely planted in Cali- 
fornia. Fruit juicy, seedless, very good. May-August. 
TANGERINE 
Algerian. Very early ripening tangerine. Fruits very sweet and fine 
flavored, medium size. One of the best to plant in the home orchard. 
Dancy. Medium to large flattened fruits. Very juicy and of fine 
flavor. February to May. 
Satsuma. One of the hardiest oranges. Fruits ripen very early, 
usually before Christmas (October). Large, flat, loose-skinned, 
deep orange in color. 
Young citrus trees need protection of bark from hot sun until they 
are shaded by their own foliage. For best fruit regular fertilizing 
and careful watering are essential. 


SUB-TROPICAL FRUITS 
Prices Subject to Market Conditions 
AVOCADOS 
Fuerte. Popular winter avocado. Pear-shaped fruits with very 
delicious flesh. Heavy bearing and frost resistant. October-May. 
Duke. The fruit of this variety is similar in appearance and quality 
to that of Fuerte. Bright green. Vigorous and hardy. 
Edranol. Slender erect growing tree bearing pear-shaped fruit of 
excellent quality and fine flavor. May-August. 
Mexicola. Small purplish-black fruit, oval in shape and shiny. The 
flesh is of excellent quality. August-September. 
Ryan. The summer Fuerte ripening from May to October, thus 
extending the Fuerte season. A thrifty spreading tree bearing con- 
sistently year after year. Fruit like the Fuerte in quality. 
CHERIMOYA 
Cherimoya, Custard Apple. For those who like small trees and sub- 
tropical fruits of unusual quality the Cherimoya is hard to beat. 
Fruits heart-shaped, green in color with many plate-like ‘’scales”’ 
enclosing a custard-like flesh which is most unusual in flavor. 
GUAVAS 
See page 12. 
SAPOTE 
White Sapote. Evergreen trees not unlike the Avocado in appear- 
ance. Fruits similar to green apples in shape but possessing a rich 
flavor to the custard-like flesh. Particularly good when chilled. 
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