Bui. 743, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VII. 



Avocado Tree at Antigua in Full Bearing. 



This tree, which is growing in a coffee plantation, is not carrying an unusually heavy crop for a 

 variety whose fruits do not weigh more than 1 pound. Rarely, however, will two such crops as this 

 be produced consecutively, the Guatemalan avocados showing a strong tendency to irregularity 

 in bearing. It will be noted that the fruit is all in the top of the tree. It is the custom in coffee 

 plantations to prune off the lower branches of avocado trees to prevent their interfering with the 

 growth of the coffee bushes. (Photographed at Antigua, Guatemala, February 22, 1917; P17100FS.) 



