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THE AVOCADO IN FLORIDA. 



GRADING AND SIZING. 



With the avocado, as with all other fancy fruits, it is necessary to 

 exercise care to have all the specimens in a crate of uniform shape and 



B 



Fig. 6. — Longitudinal sections of round avocados. West Indian-South American varieties (about one- 

 half natural diameter): A, seed rilling the cavity; B, fruit from another tree of better quality, but 

 loose in the cavity. 



A. B. 



Fig. 7.— Longitudinal sections of oblong avocados. West Indian-South American varieties (about one- 

 half natural diameter) : A. small seed, loose in large cavity; B. large seed, loose in tbe cavity. 



size. (See figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9.) A few small ones in a crate of otherwise 

 large fruits will cause a o-reater loss to the seller than would have been 



