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A Citrus that Deserves the Limelight: CiClem #10 or Golden Lime Seedlings in February 2023 Hybrid vigor: Seedling in September 2023 from seed collected November 2022 From 1996-2000, my family and I lived in Augusta, GA. Although I had been interested in citrus before then, it was during this time that I really tried to take my hobby to the next leve. Unfortunately, at this time there wasn't a lot of information available in books, which tended to focus on Florida and California. The Internet was still in its infancy, and social media hadn't been invented. Much of my initial knowledge of citrus came from Mike's catalog, and from books published many years before, such as The Citrus Industry, which detailed many of the early crosses that were made by USDA researcher Walter Swingle and others in the early years of the 20th Century. From the lost and found file: many years ago, my friend Mike Kirk owned a fantastic mail order nursery that featured cold hardy citrus. I bough