Archive image from page 60 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00lelo Year: 1902 ( 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 different 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 co
Archive image from page 60 of Culture of the citrus in. Culture of the citrus in California cultureofcitrusi00lelo Year: 1902 ( 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 different 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 countr} on the face of the globe is the Original Washington Navel orange trees, at the Tibbets homestead, Riverside, Gal. [Removed April 25, 1902, to the head of Magnolia Avenue.] 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 Alon 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 Cali-
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