CITRUS TREES 
Balled and Burlapped: $5.00 up. 
California-Grown 
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 December 
after the Navel season is over. Thus ripe oranges can be had through the 
summer and fall. Juicy, sweet and few seeded. 
Robertson Navel (Plant Pat. No. 126). Produces an enormous crop of 
delicious navel oranges. It is a fine winter orange for home planting. Bears 
younger and earlier than Washington Navel. Add 50c royalty. 
MANDARIN ORANGES 
Dancy Tangerine. Medium to large flattened fruits. Very juicy and of fine 
flavor. February to May. 
Satsuma (Owar) Orange. One of the hardiest oranges. Fruits ripen very 
early, usually before Christmas (October). Large, flat, loose-skinned, 
deep orange in color. 
AVOCADO 
Avocados today are no longer a mere rare delicacy, but an everyday food 
item. Moreover, the trees are valued for their deep, cool shade. We offer 
especially popular varieties. $9.50 up. 
NOTE: Fruit does not mature well in colder 
climates. 
‘Duke. Most resistant to cold, this variety 
ripens between September and October. Fruits 
oval and green, flesh pleasantly mild. 22°. 
Mexicola. This early-ripening variety (Au- 
gust to Sept.) also is one of the hardiest. 
Fruits small, shiny purple black and oval. 
Flesh of excellent quality. The heat and cold 
resistant tree bears heavily once it starts to 
fruit, usually second year after planting. 19°. 
GRAPEFRUIT 
Marsh Seedless. Compact growing variety 
widely planted in California. Fruit juicy, seed- 
less, very good. May-August. 
Pink Grapefruit. Identical to Marsh Seedless 
except flesh is pink or red. 
KUMQUAT 
~ Nagami. Semi-dwarf tree giving abundant 
crops of small egg-shaped golden orange 
fruits most of the year. Hardy and very orna- 
mental. 
Meyer Lemon 
LIMES 
almost thornless. 
vember to March. 
Kumquat 
Washington 
Navel Orange 
Bearss Seedless. Finest and largest of 
all limes. Seedless, juicy fruits ripen 
mostly during the summer, when limes 
are in demand. Large, vigorous and 
Rangpur Lime. Fruits look very much 
like Tangerines, both skin and pulp 
being reddish-orange. Acid fruit. No- 
YOUNG CITRUS TREES 
need protection of bark from hot 
sun until they are shaded by 
their own foliage. In colder sec- 
tions cloth protection from frost 
is needed during first few years. 
For best fruit regular fertilizing 
and careful watering are essen- 
tial. 
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. See page 13 for bush 
variety. 
LIMEQUAT 
Eustis. The parents of this citrus fruit are 
Mexican Lime and Kumquat. One of the fin- 
est of small citrus. Fruits are like small thin 
skinned yellow limes, very juicy and almost 
seedless. Excellent for beverages. 
Mandarin Oranges (Tangerines) 
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