Roosevelt Standard | 1934-09-20 | Page 3 | Valuable Bud Sports May be Lost by Not Labeling

valuable bud sports may be lost by not labeling fruit growers should always be on the watch for limbs of their trees that bear unusually desirable fruit or that beat bear at unusual times say fruit specialists of the united states department of agriculture it Is probable that many desirable varieties in some of our fruit crops have been lost through the pruning knife merely because they w were ere not marked for preservation these bud sports or variants are of scientific interest and may prove of commercial value if preserved it Is probable scientists think that the washington navel orange was a variant on a brazilian tree the marsh seedless grapefruit variety may have originated as a sport some of the deciduous fruits have also produced variants of value 0 recently cen aly members of the department son on the pacific coast inspected a variant of a standard plum which ripens a superior fruit about six weeks later than the main crop in this case the owner of the orchard had realized that a fruit ripening after the main crop had been sold might have special market value and had propagated from the limb variant BO 60 that the variety may be preserved