Luther C. Tibbets

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Luther C. Tibbets and his wife Eliza Tibbets brought two navel seedless orange trees to Riverside, CA in 1871. They received three trees through a friend at the U.S. Department of Agriculture which were originally from Bahia, Brazil. One of the trees later died after being mauled by a cow. The other two were later protected with a fence. The seedless navel oranges became very popular as growers in Southern California would request grafts from Mr. Tibbets. Mr. Tibbets would sell his grafts at a reasonable price to fellow growers as he didn't want to profit from the governments gift. Sadly, he died a poor, penniless man, while other growers profited handsomely from the seedless navel oranges he brought from Washington, D.C. to California.

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