Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 439
these in aswamp. He sent a native to get some shoots, six ofwhich he sent to the Agricultural Department at Wash-ington, where they were soon forgotten. A Mr. Tibbets wished to start a fruit farm in Califor-nia; and his wife, while at Washington, applied forspecimens of shrubs and fruits. She… … A SKETCH FROM NATURE. BY HELEN DE VEER, AGE 14. Five years after, the others had grown to large seed-less trees. Mr. Tibbets found out the tree would notreproduce by shoots, but by grafting buds into the seed-ling trees, which then turned out seedless oranges.These buds were so largely demanded…
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