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Title: Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: (Washington, D.C.?) : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs., G.P.O.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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—A typical Washington strain orange tree of the Washington Navel variety located in one of theinvestigational performance-record plats. Note the white cloth streamers used to mark the tree. Thistree after the crop was picked is shown in figure 4. The performance record of this tree for four seasons isgiven in rank 82 in Table IV. dark-green leaves. The trees of this strain produce but few suckers,i. e., branches showing abnormally vigorous vegetative growth incontrast with the large amount of such growth produced by treesof some other strains of the Washington Navel orange. Fruit varia-tions are less commonly found in the trees of this strain than in the BUD VARIATION IN THE WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGE. 15 trees of the other strains of this variety (see fig. 14). So far asobserved no flowers of this strain have been found in which theanthers develop pollen. The fruits, illustrations of which are shown in Plate II, are o bo voidand of medium to large size. The rind is of medium thickness
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KSS^» T&mMS^^Mm&&; P 732A — H P Fig. 4—A typical Washington strain orange tree of the Washington Naval variety in the investigationalperformance-record plat with its crop picked and assembled and ready for inspection. This tree is shownbefore picking in figure 3. The performance record of this tree for four seasons is shown in rank 82 inTable IV. and the texture is smooth and grained. The color of the fruit isbright orange; the rag is tender and of comparatively small amount;the juice is abundant and of superior quality, having a pleasingand sprightly subacid flavor. The fruits are seedless and the navel 16 BULLETIN 623, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. usually is small, frequently rudimentary, with no developmentexcept in the rind. The Washington is the most valuable of all the WashingtonNavel orange strains on account of the high productiveness of thetrees and the superior commercial quality of the fruit. The com-mercial characteristics of the oranges of this strain

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