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["philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>]

I got some from the Galveston County citrus show a few years ago and treated 
them the same as a trifoliate seed.  Most came up with no special treatment.
Phil
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DATE: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:57:03
From: "Dr. Ethan Natelson" <natelson@pipeline.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: 

>Dear Group,
>
>       At our Southern Fruit Fellowship (SFF) meeting a few months ago, in 
>Elizabeth City, NC,  I was chatting with Jim Mercer who mentioned that he 
>grew all of his citrus, in Florida, grafted on Severinia.  He has two types 
>of Severinia, and prefers his dwarf cultivar as a rootstock over the 
>standard, although both work.  He just sent me a package of the Severinia 
>fruit in order to generate seedlings to graft with.  These are very small, 
>hard, greenish berries.  My question to any Severiniologists out there, is 
>how to germinate these.  Do they require stratification or scarification or 
>any other manipulation or simply be planted immediately, as we do citrus 
>seeds?  It is remarkable that this small shrub, when used as a rootstock 
>with citrus, produces a moderate sized and well anchored tree, with a nice 
>thick trunk and requiring no support.
>
>                                                              Regards, Ethan 
>
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