California Avocado Society
1950 Yearbook
Volume 35

Table of Contents

  1. Foreword

  2. Earl C. Button—Memoriam
SECTION I
  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Awards of Honor

  3. Award and Resolution

  4. Annual Report of the President
    Marvin B. Rounds

  5. Financial Report

  6. Exhibits—Annual Meeting (Photos)

  7. Variety Receipts—Calavo Growers of California

  8. Variety Receipts—United Avocado Growers

  9. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee
    Marvin B. Rounds

  10. Avocado Varieties Registered During 1950

  11. Report of the Minor Subtropical Fruit Committee
    C. A. Schroeder

  12. Report of the Committee on Foreign Explorations
    Harlan Griswold

  13. Avocados in Central California (Photos)

  14. On the Comparative Resistance of the Avocado and Certain Other Tender Subtropicals and Tropicals to Low Winter Temperatures
    R. W. Hodgson, C. A. Schroeder and A. H. Wright

  15. The Carob
    J. Eliot Coit
SECTION II
  1. Problems of the Grower
    Richard Kornhauser

  2. The Experiment Station and the Avocado Industry
    Paul F. Sharp

  3. 5,000 Times Enlarged
    George A. Zentmyer

  4. Avocado Root Rot
    George A. Zentmyer

  5. Avocado Root Rot Reproduced in the Field
    George A. Zentmyer and Sterling J. Richards

  6. Soil Moisture Conditions in Avocado Groves
    Sterling J. Richards

  7. What Is In Your Irrigation Water?
    R. A. Brendler

  8. How Long Should You Run Your Sprinklers?
    Elwood E. Trask

  9. Some Suggestions on Soil Management
    Warren R. Schoonover

  10. Tip-Graft Observations
    H. W. Montgomery

  11. "Organics" in the Soil Management Program
    H. D. Chapman

  12. Prevention of Sun-Blotch Disease of Avocado in New Plantings
    J. M. Wallace

  13. Orangeworms on Avocados
    Roy J. Pence and Walter Ebeling

  14. A Grower's Observations of Frost Protection by Use of a Blower
    E. Domingo Hardison

  15. Frost Protection
    Joe Murphy

  16. Avocado Trees of Unusual Size
    C. A. Schroeder

  17. Report from Honduras
    Wilson Popenoe

  18. The Avocado in Australia
    F. V. Sharpe

  19. The Avocado in Spain, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
    J. Henry Burke

  20. Questions and Answers
SECTION III
  1. Avocado Rootstock Investigations
    F. F. Halma

  2. Salt Tolerance of Avocado Trees Grown in Culture Solutions
    A. D. Ayers

  3. Rootstock Influence on the Composition of Scion Avocado Leaves
    A. R. C. Haas

  4. Effect of Sodium Chloride on Mexican, Guatemalan, and West Indian Seedlings
    A. R. C. Haas

  5. Calcium in Relation to the Effects of Sodium in Avocado Seedlings
    A. R. C. Haas

  6. The Structure of the Skin or Rind of the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder
SECTION IV
  1. Check List of Avocado Varieties

  2. Roster of Members—1950