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January, 1953 
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Dear Customer: 
It now looks as if 1953 will be a banner year for the Florida 
Citrus Grower. Fruit prices are advancing and predictions are being 
made freely of better prices to come. The optimism is being reflected 
in the amount of orders we are receiving for Spring planting--already 
we have sold out of Valencia and Pineapple trees on rough lemon root. 
The demand is still greatest for oranges for concentrating and 
for Red Grapefruit; however, white grapefruit seems to be making a 
comeback and there is appreciable planting of Temples and tangelos. 
Although we have temporarily sold out of Valencias and Pineapples on 
rough lemon stock we do have both on Cleopatra, sweet orange, and 
sour orange. It should be pointed out that the USDA is recommending 
Pineapples on either sweet orange or Cleo stocks as giving a higher 
quality fruit desired by concentrators. 
If you are contemplating planting this Spring, you should make 
your plans now and place your order immediately. For your convenience 
we are summarizing below the varieties we have available as of this 
date: 
Rough Lemon Cleopatra Sweet Orange sour Orange 
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Parson Brown Parson Brown Pineapple Parson Brown Seminole 
Dunean Gft. Hamlin Valencia Hamlin Tangerine \ 
Marsh Gft. Pineapple Temple Pineapple King 
Red Gft. Valencia Dunean Gft. Valencia Navel 
Marsh Gft. Thompson Gft. Temple Duncan 
Red Gft. Meyer Lemon Orlando Marsh Gft. 
Calamondin Surprise Navel Minneola Thompson Gft. 
Red Gft. 
We are also enclosing a copy of our current price list. We invite you 
to compare our prices with those of other reputable nurseries. 
The State Plant Board has now set up the Budwood Certification 
Program. We have applied for registration of several "parent" trees 
and shall be one of the first nurseries to offer Registered Nursery 
Stock; however, let us point out once again that it will be at least 
4 years before we shall have such stock to offer you. We have adopted 
several features of the program in our regular nursery operations and 
have had the aid of the State Plant Board and the USDA in selecting 
trees for budwood use. We shall continue to improve our regular 
operations wherever possible in our efforts to offer truly superior 
citrus stock. 
Sincerely yours, 
NEW TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Y- af- Cardl= 
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