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definitely what its bearing habits will be, the character of the fruit 

 is so unusual as to make it worth while to test the variety in the 

 United States. Most round avocados have medium-sized or large 

 seeds. This one, however, has an unusually small seed, and if it 

 proves desirable in other respects it will be well worth cultivating. 

 In quality it is good. 



The parent tree is growing in the finca La Candelaria in Antigua. 

 The elevation is approximately 5,100 feet. The tree has been planted 

 to shade coffee bushes and is still j-oung, its age not being more than 

 5 or 6 years. It is tall and slender in habit, about 20 feet high, with 

 a trunk 6 inches thick at the base. As is customary in fincas, the 

 tree has not been allowed to branch low, the first branches being 

 more than 6 feet from the ground. The growth looks unusually 

 strong and healthy, the young branchlets being stout, long, stiff, and 

 well formed. The bud wood is excellent, having the vigorous buds 

 well placed. 



Little can be determined regarding the flowering and fruiting 

 habits of the tree at this early day. When it was first seen, early 

 in May, 1917, it had only three fruits on it. It may have borne 

 more, as the crop had already been harvested from most of the trees 

 in the finca. The ripening season is probably March to May. 



The hardiness of the tree can not be determined until it is tested 

 in the United States, as it is never very cold at Antigua. 



The fruit is round, about a pound in weight, green, with a mod- 

 erately thick skin. The flesh is of good color and quality, and in 

 quantity much greater than in the average round avocado, since the 

 seed is quite small. 



The variety may be described as follows : 



Form oblate ; size medium, weight 16 ounces, length 3* inches, breadth 3| 

 inches ; base slightly flattened, the long slender stem inserted without depres- 

 sion almost in the longitudinal center of the fruit ; apex flattened,, slightly de- 

 pressed around the stigmatic point ; surface pebbled, deep yellow green in 

 color, with numerous minute yellowish dots; skin not very thick for this race, 

 one-sixteenth of an inch or slightly more, hard, granular toward the flesh ; 

 flesh cream colored around the seed, becoming pale green close to the skin, 

 very slightly discolored, with brownish fiber tracing, but with no fiber; flavor 

 rich and pleasant; quality very good; seed very small for a round fruit, oblate, 

 weighing less than 1 ounce, tight in the cavity, with both seed coats adhering 

 closely to the cotyledons. 



TERTOH. (No. 30.) S. P. I. No. 44856. 



The Tertoh avocado is a. famous variety from Mixco, near the city 

 of Guatemala, noted for its immense size and excellent quality. 

 (PI. XXII.) 



The parent tree is growing in the sitio of Leandro Castillo, just 

 above the plaza of Mixco, at an elevation of approximately 5,700 feet. 



