California Avocado Society
1957 Yearbook
Volume 41

Table of Contents

  1. Index to Advertisers

  2. Foreword
SECTION I
  1. Officers of Avocado Society

  2. A Missionary Job for Society Members
    Col. Wells W. Miller

  3. Awards of Honor

  4. Financial Report

  5. Report of the President — 1957

  6. Report of the Annual Meeting, June 8

  7. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee

  8. Distribution of Varieties, Calavo Growers

  9. Report of Subtropical Fruit Varieties Committee

  10. Report of Research Committee

  11. Report of the Research Station Committee

  12. Report of the Foreign Exploration Committee

  13. Report of the Membership Committee

  14. Report of the Library Committee

  15. Memoriam — Miss Margaret Buvens
SECTION II
  1. Avocado Pests
    Walter Ebeling & Roy J. Pence

  2. Variety Improvement from a Market Standpoint
    Wm. F. Cowan

  3. Avocado Varieties
    J. Eliot Coit

  4. 50,000 Avocado Trees Topworked
    James A. Beutel

  5. Fuller Rose Beetle
    C. C. Delphey

  6. Observations of Hass Trees in Orange County
    J. E. Pehrson
SECTION III
  1. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Citrus Experiment Station
    A. M. Boyce

  2. Prevention of Phytophthora Root Rot - Development of New Plantings, and Other Phases of Root Rot Research
    George A. Zentmyer

  3. South of Panama
    H. W. Montgomery

  4. The Work of the USDA Advisory Committee
    T. A. Lombard

  5. Irrigation of Avocados in San Diego Co.
    C. D. Gustafson

  6. The Avocado Industry of Southern Africa
    J. Henry Burke

  7. Florida Avocados in California — Why?
    James A. Beutel

  8. Oak Root Fungus on Avocados
    Ellis F. Darley & George A. Zentmyer

  9. The Scott Avocado
    A. Wallace & C. P. North

  10. Avocado Growing and Pencil Pushing
    Marvin Miller

  11. Bring Home the Bacon
    J. E. Pehrson

  12. Ups and Downs with Avocado Trees
    J. E. Pehrson

  13. Stem-Rooting Varietal Clones by Means of Juvenile Growth Phase Leafy Stem Nurse Cuttings
    Herbert L. Gillespie

  14. Abstracts
    J. Eliot Coit

  15. Black Polyethylene Plastic for Mulching Newly Planted Trees
    J. Eliot Coit
SECTION IV
  1. The Search for Resistant Rootstocks in Latin America
    George Zentmyer

  2. Parasites of Amorbia and the Omnivorous Looper in Avocado Orchards
    C. A. Fleschner, D. W. Ricker & H. G. Johnson

  3. Bioclimatic Studies of the Mexican Fruit Fly
    P. S. Messenger & N. E. Flitters

  4. Evaluation of Monuron as a Selective Herbicide for Use in Avocado Orchards
    C. D. McCarty & Boysie E. Day

  5. Iron Chlorosis and Chelate Studies in Avocado Orchards
    Frank T. Bingham & James A. Beutel

  6. Iron Chelates for Chlorotic Avocado Trees
    A. Wallace & C. P. North

  7. Eradication of Phytophthora Cinnamomi in Avocado Seed by Hot Water Treatment
    Richard D. Durbin, E. F. Frolich & George A. Zentmyer
SECTION V
  1. Partial Bibliography of Avocado Literature
    C. A. Schroeder

  2. California Avocado Society Membership List — 1957

  3. List of Grafters Who Top Work Avocado Trees