Identifier: yoa1907 (find matches)
Title: Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1907
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Insects, Injurious and beneficial United States Birds, Injurious and beneficial United States Milk Microbiology Poultry United States Seeds United States Forests and forestry United States Fruit United States Rabbits United States Irrigati
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Figure caption: Ruby Persimmon

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9&9L Ruby Persimmon Tne SackcttA Wilnclns Co.N.Y, PBOMISING NEW FBUITS. 311 common pint berry boxes packed in crates. With this and other va-rieties he found that the number of seeds per fruit was considerablyless when they were grown at a distance from male 1;rees, though theflavor and quality of the fruit appeared to be slightly lowered as thenumber of seeds was reduced. The specimens illustrated on PlateXXXIII were grown by the late James A. Little at Cartersburg, Ind. KING ORANGE.(Synonym: King of Siam.) (PLATE XXXIV.) This most interesting and delicious orange has, from the time ofits introduction to this country, been classed with the mandarins andtangerines under Citrus nobUis, but is so distinct in tree, fruit, andtime of ripening from the kid glove representatives of that speciesthat it appears worthy of recognition as a distinct horticulturalgroup if not as a subspecies. It is apparently the first citrus varietyof high quality to reach the United States by direct importa

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