﻿Inventory 51, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE V. 



Numbering a Selected Avocado to Avoid Errors in Cutting Bud Wood. 



{Persea amcricana Mill., S. P. I. No. 44625.) 



This tree is the Panchoy seedling, Mr. Popenoe's selection No. 18. It is one of the excellent 

 varieties found, in Guatemala. Mr. Popenoe employed, the method, of cutting a number in the 

 bark to mark his selected, seedling trees. This enabled him to cut several lots of bud wood at 

 different times from the same tree in the forest. (Photographed by Wilson Popenoe in the 

 finca La Polvora, Antigua, Guatemala, May 3, 1917; P17215FS.) 



