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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Ginda wrote:  "This week they had an ornamental basket of a citrus fruit 
I've never seen, and I wonder if the
smart people here can identify it. It was about the size of a mandarine, or 
a little smaller, orange, and
roughly tear-drop shaped, or maybe a little pear shaped.
   At any rate, it had a plump round and a narrower pointy end, and was 
considerably longer than it was round.  Otherwise, the shape was regular and 
the skin seemed smooth.  I didn't try to buy one (although in retrospect."

Ginda,
   It soulds like a small "Honeybell," or someone else's version of a 
Honeybell.  A Honeybell is an exceptionally juicy, exceptionally delicious 
type of orange that was, I believe, developed in Florida.  Honeybells are 
ripe and available for shipment in Mid-January.  My daughter, from West Palm 
Beach, sends me a case of them every year.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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