California Avocado Association
1940 Yearbook
Volume 25

Table of Contents

REPORTS ON VARIETIES AND SEEDLINGS

11. Variety List for 1940
    
    
18. Registration of Seedling Avocados
    
    
19. Seedlings Registered with the Association
    
    
23. Report of the Variety Committee, Annual Meeting, May, 1940
    
    
22. Distribution of Varieties as Delivered to Calavo

CULTURAL PRACTICES AND ORCHARD COSTS

91. Size of the Avocado Orchard—Income Factor
    Harold E. Wahlberg
    
    
85. Portable Undertree Sprinkler Systems
    Arthur F. Pillsbury
    
    
89. Care of Avocado Grafts
    E. O. Stromberg
    
    
45. Planting Distances for Avocados
    M. B. Rounds

EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS

33. Avocado Research at the University of California
    R. W. Hodgson
    
    
36. Floral Abnormality in the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder
    
    
40. The Dying Back of Avocado Trees in Southern California
    Vincent A. Wager
    
    
43. Rootstocks for the Oriental Persimmon
    R. W. Hodgson
    
    
50. Avocado Tree Decline
    Kenneth Smoyer
    
    
46. Avocado Tree Root Development
    J. Eliot Coit
    
    
54. Avocado Bibliography
    Dr. Ira J. Condit
    
    
77. Importance of Root Aeration of Avocado and Citrus Trees
    A. R. C. Haas
    
    
71. Experiments in Fruit Cluster Thinning of the Loquat
    R. W. Hodgson and E. R. Eggers
    
    
70. Mango Trials
    Capt. L. L. Bucklew

GENERAL INDUSTRY ARTICLES

97. Cooperative Marketing Education
    A. J. Schrepfer
    
    
31. More Regularity of Production Necessary
    Vincent F. Blanchard
    
    
53. Selling Avocados in Eastern Markets
    A. J. Thille
    
    
94. The Outlook for Avocados
    Wm. F. Cowan

AVOCADOS IN FLORIDA AND FOREIGN LANDS

62. Romance of the Avocado in Obera, Misiones, Argentina
    Dr. Constantin Issacovich
    
    
55. Correspondence Survey of Florida Avocado and Lime Industries
    James G. France
    
    
68. The Avocado in South Africa
    J. C. Le Roux
    
    
69. A Letter from Africa
    P. Gordon Deedes

THE ASSOCIATION

103. Annual Report of President Christie
     
     
101. Highlights of 25th Annual Meeting at San Diego
     
     
98. Twenty-fifth Annual Dinner of the Association, May 11, 1940
    
    
101. Resolutions for 1940
     
     
76. Resolution Adopted by Board of Directors of Calavo Growers on the Death of Edwin G Hart, first President of the Association
    
    
84. Judging Rules for Avocado Show
    
    
104. MEMBERSHIP LIST

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece: William Hertrich

10. In Appreciation
    
    
37. Floral Abnormality in the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder
    
    
40. Soil Fungus Effects
    Vincent A. Wager
    
    
47. Avocado Tree Root Development
    J. Eliot Coit
    
    
52. Examining the Itzamna
    
    
63. Clearing the Forest in Argentina
    
    
65. Avocado Seedlings for Rootstock
    
    
66. Avocado Orchard in Argentina
    
    
80. Effect of Aeration on Root Growth
    A. R. C. Haas
    
    
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