What about planting the seed from St. Michael's oranges or of grapefruit for a seed-bed to be budded to Valencias?
The grapefruit or pomelo is a good root for the orange, and some propagators prefer it.
Therefore, if oranges are doing well in your district, grapefruit might also be expected to succeed on the same soils and with the same treatment.
What is the lowest temperature at which grapefruit and lemons will succeed?
You can expectgrapefruit to succeed under conditions which favor the orange.
The grapefruit tree is about as hardy as the orange; the lemon is much more tender.
Would it be any advantage to bud the Washington Navel on grapefruit and lemon roots?
Grapefruit seedlings are good and quite widely used, though the general preference is for sour-stock seedlings.
Casey looked at the orange and the grapefruit and lemon orchards that walled the Foothill Boulevard.
After that the three hastened in a cab to the station, stopping on the way to buy half a case each of grapefruit and oranges.
Aboard the train Blake was at once set to eating grapefruit and chewing the bitter pith to allay the burning of his terrible thirst.
It is located on a grapefruit ranch known as the Trevino hacienda, about two hundred miles due north of Limasito.
Cut a large grapefruit in halves and remove the pulp with a sharp knife to avoid crushing it; remove half the pulp of a large pineapple from the core with a fork, after carefully removing the unedible outside.
The edge of thegrapefruit cup may be cut in vandykes, or otherwise ornamented.
The juice of the grapefruit may be used in the place of other acid, and mayonnaise in the place of French dressing.
Dispose the dressed pineapple and grapefruit upon shredded lettuce, having a circle of heart leaves around the edge.
Annie, tell Gretchen to put half a dozen maraschino cherries in my grapefruit and some crushed ice.
Bring me grapefruit and a cup of coffee," he said to the maid.
Pineapple and grapefruit are delicious with head lettuce, served with the French dressing containing but a few drops of the onion juice.
Fill shell thus made with grapefruitpulp and finely chopped celery, using twice as much grapefruit as celery.
In the dining-room Bertram found no one, though the table was prettily set, and showed half a grapefruit at each place.
I'll begin with grapefruit with a cherry in it, like Pete fixes it.
Slice one grapefruit and one-half orange and put in bowl with a spoonful of sugar and a pony of kirschwasser.
To prepare it in this way, cut the grapefruit into halves, and then, with a sharp knife, cut around the pithy core in the center, cutting off the smallest possible end of each of the sections.
Florida oranges have a skin more the color of lemons and grapefruit and contain seeds, but they are considered to be the finest both as to flavor and quality.
Then, with the same knife, cut the grapefruit from the skin all the way around the edge, as in Fig.
Different ways of serving grapefruit are in practice, and it is well that these be understood.
As only the pulp remains in the outside skin, the grapefruit can be eaten without difficulty.
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However, if the grapefruit shells are to be used for serving the cocktail, the grapefruit should be cut in half and the pulp then taken out of the skin with a sharp knife.
One method of preparing grapefruit consists in cutting the skin in such a way that the seeds can be taken out and the pulp then easily removed with a spoon.
Some persons think that to be good grapefruitshould be large, but it should be remembered that size is not the factor by which to judge the quality.
At any rate, grapefruit is best if it is sweetened long enough before it is served to give the sugar a chance to penetrate.
Under dead petioles of coconut palm on sandy soil in grapefruit grove (Hebard, 1916a).
The white inner skin of grapefruit is also a prolific source of pectin, but as it has a bitter taste we seldom use it for jellies, though we find it valuable in making orange, grapefruit and other marmalades.
The rind is usually used in lemon, orange and grapefruit marmalades.
If dey don't gib him a good time he'll up an' leab de family an' de orange an' grapefruit business.
It zigzags from shore to shore, stopping at one port for timber, at another to land an itinerant preacher, at a third to receive a fragrant load of oranges or grapefruit destined for a market in the north.
For six persons prepare the grapefruit early the evening before and then set in the ice box until needed.
DRIED FRUIT Oranges and grapefruit are high-priced and the dried fruits may be substituted to advantage.
An all grapefruit marmalade is not nearly so attractive and pretty as one of combined fruits, nor does it have the zest that the grapefruit seems to give to a marmalade where it is only one of the constituents.
Will the young woman who preferred grapefruit to strawberries permit the young man who had two plates of the latter to say he will not rest until he discovers some mutual friend, that they may meet and laugh over this column together?
For then, on the instant, like a bubble bursting, would go for good all mystery and romance, and the lady of the grapefruit would lose all interest and listen to him no more.
And what we propose to have before the grapefruit is a bit of talk with you, Mr. Simpson--about last night.
Grapefruit and an amber-tinted accessory were brought for the other and sampled without mirth.
Gatewood put on his coat, took hat and gloves from the unabashed valet, and sauntered down to the sunny breakfast room, where he found Kerns inspecting a morning paper and leisurely consuming grapefruit with a cocktail on the side.
We also want two or three cases of grapefruit and oranges, and any good fresh vegetables in market.
Surely grapefruit and toast and coffee seemed to me but inventions of the powers of darkness at that breakfast.
Meanwhile Mr. Howbridge had several conferences with a business friend whosegrapefruit plantations dotted the island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grapefruit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
