Archive image from page 64 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( THE ORANGE IN CALIFORNIA—VARIETIES. 57 nounced difference in coloring. While some are disposed to believe that through its golden-bronze skin shines the lighter blood of a remote ancestry, others in turn find an excuse for its sporting in the theory that adjacent trees bearing fruit of a difierent variety may by pollination stamp upon it the insignia of their species—for the Navel is more susceptible to change .than any other type. From reports of the United States c
Archive image from page 64 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00cali Year: 1900 ( THE ORANGE IN CALIFORNIA—VARIETIES. 57 nounced difference in coloring. While some are disposed to believe that through its golden-bronze skin shines the lighter blood of a remote ancestry, others in turn find an excuse for its sporting in the theory that adjacent trees bearing fruit of a difierent variety may by pollination stamp upon it the insignia of their species—for the Navel is more susceptible to change .than any other type. From reports of the United States con- suls in the orange-growing countries of the entire world, it is clear that in no other country on the face of the globe is the iJ'/is-Vi'Ai Original Wasliington Navel orange trees, at the Tibbets homestead, Riverside, Cal. culture of the orange so successful as in the Golden State, where the climatic conditions and soil are so well adapted to its perfection of character. There are two colossal old trees, ' Los Migueletes,' in Mairena del Alcon of Seville, which are recorded to have borne each thirty-eight thousand oranges in a single season, and those in the garden of the Alcazar, at Seville, said to have been planted at the time of King Pedro I, and others whose hollow trunks still support luxuriant foliage, which might have afforded shade for Charles I, for they date back three hundred and forty years. While the original Call-
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