California Avocado Society
1953-1954 Yearbook
Volume 38

Table of Contents

  1. Index to Advertisers

  2. Foreword
SECTION I
  1. Officers and Directors

  2. Awards of Honor
    C.A. Schroeder
    Walter Averett

  3. Financial Report

  4. Annual Report of the President
    Young

  5. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee (1953)

  6. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee (1954)

  7. Avocado Patents

  8. Avocado Varieties Registered in 1953

  9. Variety Receipts — Calavo Growers of California

  10. Variety Receipts — United Avocado Growers

  11. Avocado Variety Trials
    Winslow and Enderud

  12. Avocados at Mentone
    Winslow

  13. Report of the Foreign Exploration Committee

  14. Continued Search for Avocado Rootstock and Breeding Materials — 1953
    Schroeder

  15. 1953 Collections in Central America and Mexico for Resistance to Avocado Root Rot
    Zentmyer

  16. Report of the Subtropical Fruit Varieties Committee (1953)

  17. Report of the Subtropical Fruit Varieties Committee (1954)

  18. Report of the Macadamia Nut Variety Contest Committee

  19. The Macadamia Nut Industry in Hawaii
    Storey and Hamilton

  20. A Useful Hand Nutcracker for Macadamia Nuts
    Schroeder

  21. Report of the Avocado Research Committee

  22. Report of the Nursery Stock Certification Committee

  23. Report of the Special Sub-Committee of the Nursery Stock Certification Committee

  24. Report of the Research Station Committee

  25. Report of the Library Committee
SECTION II
  1. Avocado Rootstock Experiments—a 10-year Report
    Halma

  2. Development and Evaluation of Clonal Rootstocks in the Avocado — Phase Two
    Gillespie

  3. The Grower's Problems
    Hoak

  4. Proper Planting and Care is Secret to Profitable Grove of Young Avocado Trees
    Beutel

  5. Orchard Management—It's The Little Things That Count
    Goodall

  6. Economics of Root Rot
    Coony

  7. Resistance — Is It the Answer
    Lee

  8. Abnormal Fruit Types in the Avocado
    Schroeder

  9. Biological Control of Avocado Pests
    Fleschner

  10. Research
    Shepherd

  11. The Last Thirty Inches
    McMahon

  12. The Avocado Situation in Hawaii
    Hamilton and Storey

  13. Supplemental Bibliography on the Avocado
SECTION III
  1. Susceptibility of Avocado Rootstocks to Verticillium Wilt
    Halma, Zentmyer, and Wilhelin

  2. Relative Susceptibility of Guatemalan and Mexican Avocado Varieties to Dothiorella Canker
    Halma and Zentmyer

  3. Some Aspects of Pollination in the Avocado
    Schroeder

  4. Tests of Persea Species for Resistance to Phytophthora Cinnamomi
    Zentmyer and Schroeder

  5. 2,4-D Treatment of Avocado Plants
    Haas and Brusca

  6. Total Sulfur Content and its Effect on Avocado Leaves
    Haas and Brusca

  7. Inorganic Content of Portions of Avocado Fruit of Several Varieties Grown Under Various Orchard Conditions
    Haas and Brusca

  8. Some Inorganic Changes in the Pulp of Mature Fuerte Avocado Fruit
    Haas and Brusca

  9. Tolerance of Open-Pollinated Dickinson Avocado Seedlings to Lime Soil
    North and Wallace
SECTION IV
  1. Roster of Members