California Avocado Society
1966 Yearbook
Volume 50

Table of Contents

  1. Index to Advertisers

  2. Foreword
SECTION I — CALIFORNIA AVOCADO SOCIETY
  1. Officers, Past Presidents

  2. Awards of Honor

  3. In Memoriam

  4. Financial Report

  5. Minutes, Annual Meeting

  6. Report of the President

  7. Library Committee Report

  8. Variety Committee Report

  9. Subtropical Fruits Variety Committee Report
SECTION II — GENERAL
  1. The Avocado Variety Situation Today
    Ted Todd

  2. Avocados in Sicily
    Marvin Miller

  3. Cost to Develop an Avocado Orchard in San Diego County
    C. D. Gustafson

  4. 1966 Cost to Produce Avocados in San Diego County
    C. D. Gustafson

  5. California Avocado Shipments and Prices
    Robert C. Rock

  6. History and Review of Studies on Cross-Pollination of Avocados
    C. D. Gustafson and B. O. Bergh

  7. Interplanting Complimentary Avocado Varieties Aids Fruit Production
    C. D. Gustafson

  8. Avocado Tree Arrangement and Thinning in Relation to Cross-Pollination
    B. O. Bergh
SECTION II — RESEARCH
  1. A Hass Open-Pollinated Progeny Set
    B. O. Bergh

  2. Cooperative Project Attempting to Solve the Avocado Root Rot Problem
    J. Galindo and G. A. Zentmyer

  3. Research on Avocado Root Rot
    G. A. Zentmyer, W. A. Thorn, S. M. Mircetich and E. Johnson

  4. Soil Applications of Zinc For Avocados
    T. W. Embleton and E. F. Wallihan

  5. Low Levels of Manganese in Avocado Trees
    E. F. Wallihan and M. P. Miller

  6. Chloride Injury to Hass Avocado Trees: A Sandculture Experiment
    F. T. Bingham and L. B. Fenn

  7. Cytology of the Avocado Pericarp Cell
    C. A. Schroeder

  8. Studies on Natural Control of the Avocado Brown Mite
    J. A. McMurtry and H. G. Johnson

  9. Gibberellin Increases Size of Duke Avocado Seedlings
    R. M. Burns, S. M. Mircetich, C. W. Coggins, Jr. and G. A. Zentmyer

  10. Correlations Between Cuticle Wax and Oil in Avocados
    Louis C. Erickson and Gerald G. Porter

  11. The Effect of Ethylene Upon Ripening and Respiratory Rate of Avocado Fruit
    Irving L. Eaks

  12. MEMBERSHIP