. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. 54 STATE BOARD OF HORTJCULTURK. indebted for assistance. Although no description of the Navel orange appears in the text, this is the earliest reference known. M. George Gallesio, Auditor of the State Council and Sub- Prefect of Savon a, in a treatise on the citrus family, wi'itten early in the last century, makes mention of a variety of orange, double flowered. The author describes the Aurantium fceti- feruvi as presenting a superfoetation, an imperfect development of many germs inclosed within another or united under the en
. Culture of the citrus in California. California. Pomology; Citrus. 54 STATE BOARD OF HORTJCULTURK. indebted for assistance. Although no description of the Navel orange appears in the text, this is the earliest reference known. M. George Gallesio, Auditor of the State Council and Sub- Prefect of Savon a, in a treatise on the citrus family, wi'itten early in the last century, makes mention of a variety of orange, double flowered. The author describes the Aurantium fceti- feruvi as presenting a superfoetation, an imperfect development of many germs inclosed within another or united under the envelope or an exterior germ. Those descriptions undoubtedly refer to the Navel orange. Thus it would seem that the navel formation is of great antiquity. The navel mark shows in the fruit as early as it can be examined, which in its development the navel is itself a secondary orange, in some specimens having a dis- tinct skin surrounding it. History of the Introduction oj This King of Citrus Fruits.— *" During the Civil War a woman who had been sojourn- ing in Brazil told Mr. Saunders that she knew of an orange at Bahia, Brazil, that excelled any other variety she had ever tasted or heard of. He sent there and had twelve trees propagated by budding and sent to him, in 1870. They all grew, and some of them are yet bearing fruit in the orange house at Washington. None oi the original trees was sent out to the public, but all were there used as stock fi om which to propagate by budding. Many young trees were budded from them and sent to Florida and California. Early in 1873 Mrs. Tibbets was in Washington, just previous to going to her new home at Riverside, California. Mr. Saunders offered to give her some trees of this new and untried orange and she most gladly accepted two trees. She and her aged husband planted them beside their cottage, and when they bore fruit it was * Prof. H. E. Van Deman, in " Rural New Yorker,'' June, Mr. Wm. Saunders, of Washington, D.
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