THE AVOCADO. 



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BY PERMISSION 



U. S. DEPT. 



YOUNG AVOCADO TREE. 



ROLFS, eUL. 61, BUREAU PLANT INDUSTRY 



are sold for the shipper's account at prices ranging from $4.50 to 

 $12.00 a crate. Really fine fruit sometimes reaches market badly 

 packed and much damaged, resulting in very low prices. The sell- 

 ing price for good fruit and bad fruit as it runs, averages $6.50, from 

 which must be deducted 10% commission for selling, and eighty 

 cents a crate for freight and cartage, leaving the shipper $5.05, net, 

 or 7 cents for each fruit. It is certain that no grower of choice 

 avocados of the late varieties, who grades his fruit carefully and 

 packs it right, has ever received anything like so low a price as 

 this. Avocados, of the late crop of 190S, were sold in Miami and 

 Palm Beach at $6.00 a dozen — not crate. Any company or individ- 



