California Avocado Association
1938 Yearbook
Volume 23

Table of Contents

REPORTS ON VARIETIES AND SEEDLINGS
  1. Variety Check-List

  2. Registration of Seedling Avocados

  3. Registered Seedlings

  4. Report of the Variety Committee—Annual Meeting, May, 1938

  5. Distribution of Varieties, Delivered to Calavo during 1937-38 Season
CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ORCHARD COSTS
  1. How Should Avocado Trees Be Irrigated
    A. S. DeBard

  2. Pruning Practice on the Avocado
    Carter Barrett

  3. Avocado Fertilization
    Dr. E. R. Parker

  4. Improvement of the Avocado
    Hamilton P. Traub and T. R. Robinson

  5. Avocado Growers Study Cultural and Economic Factors
    Harold E. Wahlberg, Orange County Farm Advisor

  6. Discussion of Cost of Production Studies
    M. B. Rounds, Los Angeles County Farm Advisor

  7. Making Plans for an Efficient Orchard
    M. B. Rounds
EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
  1. Avocado Studies in Mexico in 1938
    A. D. Shamel, U.S.D.A

  2. Descriptions of Summer Bearing Avocado Tree and Fruit Characteristics Selected as of Particular Interest to Growers in the United States and Mexico

  3. Correlations between Size of Seed, Seedling and Nursery Tree, in the Avocado
    R. W. Hodgson and E. R. Eggers

  4. Water Content of Avocado Fruit and Leaves
    A. R. C. Haas

  5. Some Effects of Sun-Blotch on Fuerte Avocado Fruit
    A. R. C. Haas

  6. A Promising Method for Distinguishing Between Mexican and Guatemalan Avocado Bark
    F. F. Halma and E. R. Eggers
GENERAL INDUSTRY ARTICLES—HISTORY AND REPORTS
  1. Program of Avocado Growers Institute

  2. Rehabilitation of Frost Damaged Trees
    Jean C. Miller, Assistant Farm Advisor, San Diego County

  3. Recovery from Frost Injury
    E. C. Moore, Assistant Farm Advisor, Los Angeles County

  4. Notes on Avocados in Florida
    Dr. E. R. Parker

  5. California Avocado Statistics Compiled from California Cooperative Crop Reporting Service

  6. Pioneering with Avocados in Argentina

  7. Report of the Avocado Institute

  8. Fruit Exhibits, Avocado Institute
PARENT FUERTE TREE COMMEMORATION—MEXICO
  1. Message from Senor Alejandro LeBlanc

  2. Official Proclamation by Mayor of Atlixco, Mexico, Posted Throughout That City, on March 14, 1938

  3. The Pilgrimage to Atlixco
    Carter Barrett

  4. Honoring the Parent Tree of the Fuerte Avocado
    Dr. H. J. Webber

  5. Page English Text of Address Given at the Presentation of Medal to Senor LeBlanc at Atlixco, April 17, 1938
    Prof. Wm. T. Horne

  6. Report on Trip to Mexico
    Prof. Wm. T. Horne

  7. Letter from Acting President, University of California, to Prof. Wm. T. Horne, regarding trip to Mexico

  8. Address Delivered by the Honorable Ernesto Hidalgo

  9. Description of Parent Fuerte Avocado Tree at Atlixco
    Carter Barrett

  10. Association Members and Friends Who Generously Responded with Donations to the Voluntary Fund for the LeBlanc Commemoration

  11. Persons Composing Tour to Atlixco Celebration by train, and by Auto from Los Angeles
IN MEMORIAM
  1. Joseph O. Strasser

  2. Guy N. Collins

  3. Robert M. Teague
THE ASSOCIATION
  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Past Presidents

  3. Program of 23rd Annual Meeting

  4. Program of 23rl Annual Dinner

  5. Twenty-third Annual Meeting at San Diego
    Jack Klein, California Cultivator

  6. An Appreciation by Exhibit Chairman
    Carter Barrett

  7. President's Annual Report
    Dean F. Palmer

  8. Resolutions, 23rd Annual Meeting

  9. Minutes of Annual Meeting

  10. Address of Welcome, Annual Dinner
    Dean F. Palmer

  11. Financial Statement, January 1, 1937 to December 31, 1937

  12. List of Exhibits, Annual Meeting

  13. By-Laws of the California Avocado Association

  14. Membership List

  15. Advertisements
MARKETING
  1. Annual Report of Calavo Growers of California
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece: Judge Frank D. Halm
  1. In Appreciation

  2. Largest Avocado Tree, growing in the Ecuadorian Andes

  3. Directors, California Avocado Association, on March 10, 1938

  4. Association Party in Mexico

  5. Oil Painting of Parent Fuerte Tree

  6. View of parent Fuerte Tree, showing Commemorative Tablet

  7. Parent Fuerte Avocado Tree, in the LeBlanc Garden, Atlixco

  8. Alejandro LeBlanc and Wilson Popenoe beside the parent Fuerte Avocado Tree

  9. Parent Puebla Tree

  10. Old Seedling Avocado Tree, more than 100 years old

  11. General View of Tochimilco District

  12. Town and Valley of Atlixco

  13. Nursery Trees in the Progeny Employed in Study
    R. W. Hodgson and E. R. Eggers

  14. Fuerte Avocado Fruits Showing Effects of Sun-Blotch
    A. R. C. Haas

  15. Avocado Exhibit, Group of Growers, Balboa Park, San Diego

  16. Exhibit of Calavo Growers of California displayed at Fairs

  17. ADVERTISEMENTS