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Herbert J. Webber · U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Plant Life History Investigations · 1907
https://archive.org/details/CAT31442959/page/n1/mode/2up (opens in a new tab)
1907 three-page B.P.I.-336 circular, reprinted with slight changes from Webber’s 1906 Yearbook account (pp. 333–334), not independent evidence. Names hybrid No. 779, Frank Savage, and gives historical fruit/tree descriptions and a 1906 test-grove report; OCR fruit dimensions are unclear. Historical rootstock suggestion is explicitly described as problematical and requiring trial.
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University of California, Riverside, Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc275 (opens in a new tab)
Current collection profile for CRC 275 / PI 539813 / VI 249. Records budwood received from Dr. Fawcett’s #135 Florida collection in 1914; lists parentage, rootstocks of the accession, and October–November ripeness at Riverside. Accession-specific details; page shows no publication date or individual author.
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Heinz K. Wutscher; A. V. Shull · American Society for Horticultural Science · 1972-11-01
https://journals.ashs.org/downloadpdf/view/journals/jashs/97/6/article-p778.pdf (opens in a new tab)
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 97(6), pp. 778–781; DOI 10.21273/JASHS.97.6.778. Reports nucellar Redblush grapefruit scions on 13 rootstocks, including Savage. Table 2 caption states two-year means based on samples from eight trees per rootstock. Fruit-quality observations belong to Redblush grapefruit under each rootstock treatment, not Savage fruit; indexed table headings are interleaved, so ambiguous values are not mapped to columns.
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W. P. Bitters · California Agriculture · 1950-02
Two-page Riverside Citrus Experiment Station rootstock report. Discusses grapefruit and Satsuma scions on Savage citrange and compares combination size/yield; Figure 1 captions a 21-year grapefruit-on-Savage tree. Combination-specific rootstock findings, not Savage scion or fruit traits. OCR percentage for grapefruit size is ambiguous and omitted.
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Esmaeil Fallahi; Zahra Mousavi; D. Ross Rodney · American Society for Horticultural Science · 1991
https://journals.ashs.org/downloadpdf/view/journals/jashs/116/1/article-p2.pdf (opens in a new tab)
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 116(1), pp. 2–5. Seven-year study of Orlando tangelo on ten rootstocks in southwestern Arizona; methods state budded trees were field-planted in March 1970 at 7 × 7 m. Reports Orlando scion yield, size, TSS and acidity responses on Savage rootstock. These are Orlando fruit and graft-combination results, not Savage fruit chemistry or general performance.
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W. P. Bitters · California Agriculture · 1952
California Agriculture 6(11), printed pp. 5–6. Reuses the existing local trial account: one Valencia budwood source tree also supplied budwood for 15 Savage and 10 Cunningham trees; the report says those trees showed no symptoms. A particular historical planting report, not a general resistance classification.
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Herbert J. Webber · United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Seed and Plant Introduction and Distribution · 1907-04-18
https://archive.org/details/CAT31443114 (opens in a new tab)
Webber’s historical Colman description (pp. 1–3) compares Colman’s oil glands with those of Morton, Savage, and other citranges, describing the Colman glands as smaller, differently shaped, and closer to the surface. This is a comparative statement within the Colman description, not a direct Savage measurement or accession-specific sample report.
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W. C. Cooper; P. C. Reece; J. R. Furr · Florida State Horticultural Society · 1962
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/view/100828 (opens in a new tab)
The article, “Citranges and Related Hybrids” (printed p. 7), lists Savage among 11 citranges grown from seed of a Poncirus trifoliata fruit crossed with pollen from a Ruby sweet orange flower, attributing the account to Swingle (1913). The official PDF was access-denied during retrieval; the passage was checked in a complete third-party transcription, while title/authors were verified on the official article page. The original 1913 account was not independently inspected. This supports a qualified historical parentage report, not accession-specific genetic confirmation.
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F. E. Gardner and G. E. Horanic · Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society · 1959-06-13
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/download/101309/97253/130008 (opens in a new tab)
Table 1, printed p. 83, reports adjusted and unadjusted cold-injury ratings and trunk circumference for named rootstocks under Valencia orange tops. The 10-year-old planting was at Weirsdale, Florida; injury followed winter 1957–58 freezes and ratings were made June 18, 1958. The study-specific ratings are comparative rootstock results, not traits of the rootstock variety as a scion or a temperature threshold.
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