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TEAGUE QUALITY BUD AND ROOT-SELECTED TREES. 
IF there is one thing more than another that has tended to improve quality and 
bearing capacity of fruit trees, it is the selection of buds from record bearing 
trees in the propagation of citrus and tropical fruit plants. It is a subject that 
has been exhaustively studied by the 'Department of Agriculture and Experiment 
Stations, and of late years has found practical operation in the Fruit Growers 
Supply Company (a subsidiary corporation of the California Fruit Exchange), which, 
after years of close observation, has now sufficient record trees under its observation to 
form a reliable source of supply for selected citrus buds. In addition the Avocado 
Association is pursuing a similar line of action. Having for years been a consistent 
advocate of bud, selection, and being keenly alive to the work already accomplished, 
we are growing'- ^IJ- our '-attfu^r'&Od'. Avocado trees only from certified selected buds 
obtaind from th^Fruit Growers^ S.uppLy Company and the California Avocado Asso- 
ciation, thereby; ilTslipftg quality ia&l quantity bearing trees to all our patrons. 
But this of itself will hardly insure a profitable tree the bud must have a good 
foundation; in other words the root stock and its proper development must be right. 
Here we put in force the elimination of the unfit. Every seedling tree that exhibits a 
weak or faulty root development is discarded; and when we discard fully forty per cent 
of our seedling trees every year because of faulty devlopment the reader will appreciate 
that we practice root selection as well as bud selection. These two basic principles 
rigidly enforced give us the nucleus or foundation for growing good trees. Then comes 
intelligent care proper culture and training, so that the tree will be of good form and 
habit, capable of functioning along lines that will prove a pleasure and a source of 
profit to their owners. That our efforts have been appreciated by planters in general, 
is evidenced by the ever-increasing demand for Teague trees, not only in California, 
but throughout the citrus growing sections of the world : Old Mexico, South America, 
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, 
China, Japan and India. 
Realizing the importance of some of the more desirable tropical fruits, we have 
lately added the growing of such varieties as give promise of having a commercial future 
in California horticulture, and their propagation is being carried out in the same pains- 
taking manner that has made Teague citrus trees so well and favorably known. 
We have endeavored to make the articles on care and culture explicit, 
so that those just engaging in this line of work will understand the procedure 
necessary to properly care for their trees. As stated elsewhere, the varying conditions 
both as to climate and soil, make it impossible to lay down any hard and fast rule, and 
the planter must rely on his own judgment, in cases where these two conditions make 
cultural changes necessary. 
