California Avocado Association
1939 Yearbook
Volume 24

Table of Contents

REPORTS ON VARIETIES AND SEEDLINGS
  1. Variety Check-List

  2. Registration of Seedling Avocados

  3. Registered Seedlings

  4. Report of Variety Committee—Annual Meeting, May, 1939

  5. Distribution of Varieties, Delivered to Calavo, 1938-39 Season
CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ORCHARD COSTS
  1. Avocado Growers Turn Searchlight on Industry

  2. New Findings Revealed at Avocado Field Day

  3. Avocadoists Make a Tour

  4. New Windbreak Plan Devised for Inner Orchard

  5. Notes on Avocado Growing in Northern California

  6. Avocado Yield Most Important Success Factor

  7. "Kidnaping" of "Aristocrats"

  8. Avocado Tree Decline
EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
  1. Vegetative and Reproductive Recovery of Avocado Trees from Jan. 1937 Freeze
    Halma and Courtney

  2. Historical Records of Avocado Scab in Florida and Cuba
    Anna E. Jenkins

  3. Germplasms of the Mexican Avocado

  4. Floral Biology of the Mexican Avocado in Italy
    Eva M. Calvino

  5. Notes on Avocado Anatomy
    Paul Heismann

  6. Growth and Transpiration in Avocado Seedlings as Affected by Artificial Winds
    A. R. C. Haas

  7. Effects of pH on the Growth of Avocado Seedlings
    A. R. C. Haas

  8. Avocado Leaf Symptoms Characteristic of Potassium, Phosphate, Manganese, and Boron Deficiencies in Solution Cultures
    A. R. C. Haas

  9. Root Temperature Effects on the Growth of Avocado Seedlings
    A. R. C. Haas

  10. Floral Anatomy of the Avocado
    Philip C. Reece
GENERAL INDUSTRY ARTICLES—HISTORY AND REPORTS
  1. Program of Annual Avocado Growers' Institute

  2. Looking Forward
    Wilson Popenoe

  3. Reminiscences of Early Avocado Introductions
    David Fairchild

  4. Observations on Avocados in Brazil
    H. S. Fawcett

  5. New Machine for Removing Scales from Avocados
    R. F. Haymaker

  6. First Hawaiian Avocado Shipment

  7. Avocado Meal Possibilities as Stock Food

  8. "Unusual" Weather in 1939

  9. New Machine to Test Avocado Ripeness
IN MEMORIAM
  1. Edwin G. Hart

  2. George E. Marcy

  3. James E. Higgins

  4. Jennie C. Gano
THE ASSOCIATION
  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Past Presidents

  3. Program of 24th Annual Meeting and Dinner

  4. President's Annual Report
    H. B. Griswold

  5. Resolutions for 1939

  6. Association's 24th Annual Dinner

  7. This Business of Eating
    John E. Pickett

  8. Third Annual Exhibit, California Avocado Association

  9. List of Exhibits and Exhibitors

  10. By-Laws of California Avocado Association
STANDARDIZATION AND MARKETING
  1. Avocado Standardization
    Geo. B. Hodgkin

  2. Importance of Standardization
    Paul K. Wilson

  3. Importance of Maturity in Avocado
    A. W. Christie

  4. First Annual Report, La Habra Heights Avocado Association

  5. 16th Annual Report, Calavo Growers of California
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece: Dr. J. Eliot Coit
  1. In Appreciation

  2. Avocado Scab on Fruit and Foliage

  3. Avocado Tree Recovery from 1937 Freeze

  4. Anatomy of Avocado Root, Stem, and Leaf
    Paul Heismann

  5. Budding Avocados in the Nursery
    Paul Heismann

  6. An Interesting New Fuerte Sport

  7. Sunshade of Reeds as Used on Newly Planted Tree in South Africa

  8. Avocado Leaf Symptoms of Mineral Deficiencies

  9. Effects of pH on Growth of Avocado Seedlings
  1. By-Laws of California Avocado Association
ADVERTISEMENTS

ADDENDA

  1. Hawaiian Avocado Policy