1.   A black-clad figure lurking behind the grapefruit tree?

2.   A district plant inspector initially found signs of canker in a single grapefruit tree in a residential yard during routine inspections.

3.   All that Reasoner could provide was pink grapefruit trees.

4.   Grapefruit trees that have been started from seed can take a decade or more to bear fruit.

5.   I keep hearing stories of grapefruit trees grown from seeds saved at breakfasts years ago.

6.   On the other hand, a mature grapefruit tree grown from seed will yield several hundred pounds per year, plenty for home consumption.

7.   Thirty-five years later, the grapefruit tree was so large that he had to give it away, but the gardening bug stayed with him.

8.   At the time, she had just returned from a trip to Israel, where she had stayed in a bungalow overlooking aromatic orange and grapefruit trees.

9.   Bobbie Tyler said she, her roommates and sister plan to form a human chain to save their grapefruit tree in Kendall, outside Miami.