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6 credits across 5 varieties · Frank E. Gardner
Historically credited with Bellows for the USDA hybridization program that produced Lee.
Lee originated in the USDA citrus breeding program from a 1942 hybridization between Clementine mandarin and Orlando tangelo at the U.S. Horticultural Field Station in Orlando, Florida. Lee, Robinson, and Osceola were selected from this hybrid population.
Orlando, Florida, United States
Gardner and Bellows of the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the Clementine mandarin x Orlando tangelo cross that produced Osceola.
Orlando, Florida, United States
Gardner and Bellows of the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the Clementine mandarin x Orlando tangelo cross that produced Robinson.
Florida, United States
Co-authored the 1959 description and release of Lee, Robinson, and Osceola.
Lee was officially released in 1959 as one of three early-maturing sister citrus hybrids, together with Robinson and Osceola. Philip C. Reece and Frank E. Gardner documented the new cultivars in the Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society.
Florida, United States
P. C. Reece and F. E. Gardner described and released Page in 1963 through the U.S. Horticultural Field Station.
Orlando, Florida, United States
Co-published evidence that Carrizo and Troyer were the same clone.
Hodgson (1967) reports that Savage and Gardner presented evidence in 1965 that Carrizo and Troyer were not sister seedlings but the same zygotic clone, CPB 4-5019, from the 1909 Washington navel × trifoliate orange cross.
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