CITRUS AND AVOCADOS 
Prices Subject to Market Conditions 
CITRUS FRUITS 
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 
~~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. 
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. 
GRAPEFRUIT 
~ Marsh Seedless. Compact growing variety widely planted in Cali- 
fornia. Fruit juicy, seedless, very good. May-August. 
FUERTE AVOCADO 
VALENCIA ORANGE 
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) . 
deep orange in color. 
Large, flat, loose-skinned, 
AVOCADOS 
-’ 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. 
~ Fuerte. Popular winter avocado. Pear-shaped fruits with very 
delicious flesh. Heavy bearing and frost resistant. October-May. 
~ Haas. The very surest summer-fruiting variety. Black-skinned, 
ripens over long season, from May to October. 
~Mexicola. Small purplish-black fruit, oval in shape and shiny. The 
flesh is of excellent quality. August-September. 
“SNabal. Smooth skin, small seed, large green fruit, round in shape, 
fruit weighing as much as 20 ounces. Delicious taste. Leading 
commercial variety. Ripens from June to 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. 
~ Tanto. An improved Fuerte type, resistant to cold, and very quick 
to come into bearing. 
Zutano. Like Fuerte in appearance, but ripens a month earlier. Thin 
skin, fine quality, reliable yield. November to January. 
\ LOQUAT 
The Loquat is hardier than most other sub-tropical trees. The fruit 
ripens in April and May. Its sprightly aromatic flavor is widely 
enjoyed. The fruits are pear-shaped, yellow to orange, and of white 
flesh. Because of its broad, shiny foliage the Loquat makes a 
splendid ornamental with its small, spreading branches. (See also 
under Popular Evergreen Trees.) 
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