World of CitrusMarr's Early Sweet Orange
Waibel (1953) reports that Marr’s Early was found in 1927 on O. F. Marrs’s property in Donna, Texas, where it was said to have occurred as a limb sport in a planting of navel orange trees obtained from California.
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The 1967 account reproduced on UCR’s CRC 3865 page reports that Marrs trees had been propagated to a limited extent earlier but were not available for commercial planting until 1940.
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UCR records CRC 3865 as received as budwood from USDCS, Indio, California, via CCPP in 1962.
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