California Avocado Society
1975-1976 Yearbook
Volume 59

Table of Contents

  1. Index to Advertisers
SECTION I — CALIFORNIA AVOCADO SOCIETY
  1. Officers, Past Presidents

  2. Awards of Honor

  3. Frank Gilkerson

  4. Awards of Honor—Tributes to the Living

  5. Wilson Popenoe

  6. President's Report

  7. Membership Report

  8. Report from the Variety Committee

  9. Feeding a Hungry World
    Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr

  10. Financial Report
SECTION II — GENERAL
  1. Some Useful Plants of the Botanical Family Lauraceae
    C. A. Schroeder

  2. The San Diego County Avocado Industry—1975
    C. D. Gustafson

  3. Avocado Varieties Recently Registered with the California Avocado Society
    R. G. Platt

  4. Gophers vs. Avocado Trees—Gophers Win
    R. G. Platt

  5. Report on the Experience of Using Man Positioning Machines in Harvesting Avocados
    Ted Todd
SECTION III — RESEARCH
  1. Effect of the Age of Juvenile Stage Avocado Seedlings on the Rooting Capacity of Their Cuttings
    A. Kadman

  2. Exploring for Persea in Chiapas, Mexico
    Eugenio Schieber and G. A. Zentmyer

  3. Avocado Rootstocks in Use in Israel
    A. Ben-Ya'acov

  4. Avocado Seed Treatment and Storage Trial
    A. O. Paulus, J. Nelson and G. A. Zentmyer

  5. Low Tempertaure Storage of Ripe Avocado Fruit
    Roy E. Young and Suraphong Kosiyachinda

  6. Salt Tolerance of Huntalas Compared with Other Avocado Rootstocks
    P. M. Patel, A. Wallace and R. T. Mueller

  7. Comparison of Various Methods for the Isolation of Phytophthora cinnamomi from Avocado Soils
    H. T. Brodrick, G. A. Zentmyer and R. Wood

  8. Daily Size Changes in Avocado Related to Temperature
    C. A. Schroeder

  9. Avocado Root Rot Research
    G. A. Zentmyer and L. N. Lewis

  10. A Method for Measuring the ""Covering Area"" of Avocado Trees
    A. Kadman, A. Ben-Ya'acov, Z. Raz and J. Peleg

  11. The Effect of Root Infection by Phytophthora cinnamomi and Soil Oxygen Content on the Concentrations and Total Amounts of Nutrients in Avocado Plants (Persea americana Mill)
    C. K. Labanauskas, L. H. Stolzy and G. A. Zentmyer

  12. Exploring for Persea in Matagalpa, Nicaragua
    Eugenio Schieber and G. A. Zentmyer

  13. Avocado Rootstock-Scion Relationships: A Long-Term, Large-Scale Field Research Project V. Final Report on Some Orchards Planted During the Years 1960-1964
    A. Ben Ya'acov

  14. Percentage Fruit Set in Avocados (Persea americana Mill)
    Minas K. Papademetriou
SECTION IV — MEMBERSHIP
  1. California Avocado Society Membership—1976