California Avocado Society
1961 Yearbook
Volume 45

Table of Contents

  1. Index of Advertisers

  2. Foreword
Section I — California Avocado Society
  1. Officers, Directors, Past Presidents of Avocado Society

  2. Awards of Honor

  3. 1961 Award of Honor

  4. Report of the President

  5. Minutes of Annual Meeting

  6. Financial Report

  7. Report of the Avocado Variety Committee

  8. Report of the Subtropical Fruit Varieties Committee

  9. Report of the Membership Committee

  10. Report of the Foreign Exploration Committee

  11. Report of the Research Station Committee

  12. Report of the Research Committee

  13. Report of the Library Committee
Section II — General Articles
  1. Avocado Irrigation and Tensiometers
    C. D. Gustafson

  2. A Day with a Farm Advisor
    R. C. Platt

  3. Planning for the Planting; of an Avocado Orchard
    Ted Todd

  4. Mechanized Picking for Avocados
    Roy J. Smith

  5. Progress Report: Avocado Inarch Grafting
    R. M. Burns, J. Enderud, G. E, Goodall, and G. A. Zentmyer

  6. The Avocado in Queensland Australia
    George H. Schultz

  7. Soil Fumigation for Avocado Replants
    Don Gustafson

  8. New Avocado Varieties
    Elwood E. Trask
Section III — Research
  1. Review of Avocado Research at the University of California, Riverside
    Walter Reuther

  2. Nutrition Studies With Mature Avocado Trees in Sand Culture: A Progress Report
    Frank T. Bingham

  3. Collections for Phytophthora Root Rot Resistance in Mexico and the Caribbean
    George A. Zentmyer

  4. Vegetative Propagation in Avocados by Means of Marcottage and the Rootings of Cuttings
    LeVern B. Young

  5. Breeding Avocados at C.R.C.
    B. O. Bergh

  6. Seasonal Changes in Concentrations of Micronutrients in Fuerte Avocado Leaves
    C. K. Labanauskas. T. W. Embleton, W. W. Jones, and M. J. Garber

  7. Some Observations on the Nutritional Status of Avocado Trees in Israel
    Ch. Oppenheimer, A. Kadman, and F. Radziszewska

  8. Temperature Conditions and Tolerance of Avocado Fruit Tissue
    C. A. Schroeder and Ernest Kay

  9. Attraction of Zoospores of Phytophthora Cinnamomi to Avocado Roots
    George A. Zentmyer

  10. Avocado Seedling Response to Irrigation and Fertilization on Soil from the South Coast Field Station
    S. J. Richards, J. E. Warneke, and F. T. Bingham

  11. Escondido Area Root Rot Soil Survey
    R. M. Burns, G. Borst, C. D. Gustafson, G. A. Zentmyer, and W. A. Thorn

  12. Current Research on Biological Control of Avocado Insect and Mite Pests
    J. A. McMurtry

  13. Phytophthora Canker of Macadamia Trees
    George A. Zentmyer and William B. Storey

  14. Chloride and Avocado Rootstocks
    T. W. Embleton, Mitsuo Matsumura, W. B. Storey, and M. J. Garber

  15. Effects of Oxidant Air Pollutants on Avocado Trees
    O. C. Taylor