. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . nd her husband planted thembeside their cottage in Riverside on land which they had 18 Citrus Fruits horaesteaded. According to present street nomenclaturethe spot formerly occupied by the Tibbet cottage is onCentral Avenue near Palm Avenue. The fruit from thesetrees first attracted attention at a private meeting of fruit growers in thewinter of 1877-88, atwhich time the Naveltrees sold by ThomasA. Garey had been inbearing several February,
. Citrus fruits; an account of the citrus fruit industry, with special reference to California requirements and practices and similar conditions . nd her husband planted thembeside their cottage in Riverside on land which they had 18 Citrus Fruits horaesteaded. According to present street nomenclaturethe spot formerly occupied by the Tibbet cottage is onCentral Avenue near Palm Avenue. The fruit from thesetrees first attracted attention at a private meeting of fruit growers in thewinter of 1877-88, atwhich time the Naveltrees sold by ThomasA. Garey had been inbearing several February, 1879,the Southern Cali-fornia HorticulturalSociety (J. De BarthShorb, President, , Secretary)held a citrus fair atRiverside. At thisfair ISIr. T. D. Coverexhibited fruit fromthe Tibbet trees andwas awarded firstprize over otherNavels exhibitedfrom Orange County,which came fromtrees imported from Australia by Mr. Garey. Thediflerence between the two forms was recognized by ex-pert fruit grow^ers; the Tibbet oranges being calledWashington Navels because Mrs. Tibbet, probably for-getting the name Bahia, always said in answer to in-. FiG. 3.— Mrs. L. C. Tibbet, who firstbrought the true Navel orange to Cali-fornia. History and Development of the Citrus Industry 19 quiries that the trees came from Washington. All otherkinds of Navels were called Australians because it wassupposed that they all came from Australia. A. S. White of Riverside writing in the Riverside Pressand Ilorticulturist under date of June 26, 1880, says, — It (Washington Navel) was first exhibited at the River-side Citrus Fair last year (1879), where it attracted greatattention, its appearance being so unlike the other Navelson exhibition, which were from the stock imported intoCalifornia from Australia. The marked points of differ-ence between the two Navel oranges lie in their externalappearance. Instead of being like the Australian, ribbedlengthwise, it is smooth and more globular. The skinis of
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