Around 1877, C. R. Workman supplied Thomas A. Garey with budwood from one of the selected lemon seedlings. Garey propagated the selection through his Los Angeles nursery.
Helped evaluate and select promising trees from the Italian-origin lemon seedling population.
Several years after the seedlings were raised, Andrew Boyle and C. R. Workman acquired some of them and selected several promising trees. One of these selections became Eureka Lemon.
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