California Avocado Society
1959 Yearbook
Volume 43

Table of Contents

  1. Index of Advertisers

  2. Foreword
SECTION I
  1. Officers of Avocado Society

  2. Awards of Honor

  3. 1959 Awards of Honor

  4. Financial Report

  5. Report of the President

  6. Report of the Annual Meeting

  7. Report of the Variety Committee

  8. Distribution of Varieties to Calavo Growers

  9. Report of the Subtropical Fruit Varieties Committee

  10. Report of the Research Committee

  11. Report of the Membership Committee

  12. Report of the Foreign Exploration Committee

  13. Report of the Research Station Committee

  14. Report of the Library Committee
SECTION II
  1. 550 Miles of Avocados
    R. G. Platt

  2. The Avocado Situation in Los Angeles County
    Hunter Johnson, Jr.

  3. Avocados in Orange County
    John E. Pehrson

  4. What About Avocados in Riverside County?
    Marvin P. Miller

  5. Santa Barbara County Avocado Situation
    George E. Goodall

  6. Avocado Situation in San Bernardino County
    R. E. Puffer

  7. San Diego County Avocado Industry
    C. D. Gustafson

  8. The Avocado in Tulare County
    James H. La Rue

  9. The Avocado Situation in Ventura County
    Calvin C. Delphey
SECTION III
  1. The Avocado Industry of Chile
    Robert W. Hodgson

  2. Avocado Irrigation
    Elwood E. Trask

  3. Avocados in Spain and Elsewhere
    Wilson Popenoe

  4. Progress Report on the Macadamia
    W. B. Storey

  5. Nursery Tree Certification
    A. W. Christie

  6. Weed Control for Use in Avocado Culture
    B. E. Day and C. D. McCarty

  7. Some Factors that Influence Pest Population on Avocados
    Walter Ebeling, Charles A. Fleschner, and Donald W. Ricker

  8. Nutritional Value of the Avocado
    Dr. Horace F. Pierce

  9. Avocado Variety Trials at Riverside and Greenspot
    W. B. Storey
SECTION IV
  1. Nematodes in Avocados
    S. A. Sher

  2. Leaf Analysis as a Guide to Nitrogen Fertilization of Avocado
    T. W. Embleton, W. W. Jones, and M. J. Garber

  3. Fertilizer Effects Upon Micronutrient Nutrition of the Avocado
    C. K. Labanauskas, T. W. Embleton, and W. W. Jones

  4. Morphological Aspects of the So-Called Woody Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder

  5. Irrigation Water Tests to Isolate the Avocado Root Rot Fungus
    William A. Thorn, George A. Zentmyer, and Po Ping Wong

  6. Fruit Graft in Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder, Jacqueline Briggs, and Ernest Kay

  7. Spore Stages of the Avocado Root Rot Fungus, Phytophthora Cinnamomi
    George A. Zentmyer
SECTION V
  1. 1959 Partial Bibliography on the Avocado
    C. A. Schroeder

  2. 1959 Membership California Avocado Society