California Avocado Society
1964 Yearbook
Volume 48

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. Marvin Rounds

  4. In Memoriam

  5. Financial Report

  6. Report of the President

  7. Report of the Foreign Exploration Committee

  8. John Eliot Coit, “The Father of the Avocado Industry”

  9. The Views of Janus
    Jack Shepherd

  10. The California Avocado Society: An Historical Sketch
    J. Eliot Coit
SECTION II —GENERAL ARTICLES
  1. Report from the North – Tulare County Keeps Trying
    James H. LaRue

  2. The Avocado Industry – Where is it Headed
    C. D. Gustafson

  3. The Avocado - in 1694

  4. Even a Better Mousetrap Needs Advertising

  5. A New Avocado of the Mexican Race
    Wilson Popenoe

  6. Report of the California Avocado Development Organization
    Brent Wahlberg
SECTION III —RESEARCH
  1. Character Segregations in Avocado Racial-Hybrid Progenies
    B. O. Bergh and W. B. Storey

  2. Avocado Inarch Grafting Trials with Root Rot Resistant Varieties
    R. M. Burns, J. Enderud, W. A. Thorn and G. A. Zentmyer

  3. Avocado Yields Increased by Interplanting Different Varieties
    B. O. Bergh and M. J. Garber

  4. Progress on Chemical Control of Phytophthora Root Rot
    George A. Zentmyer, S. Hasimoto, J. D. Gilpatrick and R. M. Burns

  5. Ripening Hass Avocados in High and Low Humidities
    Louis C. Erickson and Yoshio Kikuta

  6. Effect of Temperature on the Ripening of Hass Avocado
    Louis C. Erickson and Tadaaki Yamashita

  7. Horticultural Abstracts
SECTION V — MEMBERSHIP
  1. 1964 Membership, California Avocado Society