Complex sentence: In 1988, a woman named Merleen Smith in Ventura County, California contacted her local farm advisor on the suspicion that her neighbor was poisoning her tree, investigators found that it was a pigmented bud sport of a conventional Valencia orange tree.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1988, a woman named Merleen Smith in Ventura County, California contacted her local farm advisor on the suspicion that her neighbor was poisoning her tree. Investigators found that it was a pigmented bud sport of a conventional Valencia orange tree.