CALIFORNIA AVOCADO ASSOCIATION 



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Santa Fe Railroad, two or three trees not hurt, but all the others of about 

 a dozen varieties had the leaves and young shoots burned and in a few 

 cases about one third of the tree killed back. 



A Monrovia-Duarte report first describes the damage done and the 

 quantity of valuable fruit blown off, between Sierra Madre and Glendora, 

 by the November wind storm, which was the hardest continuous wind 

 known there in thirty-eight years. It then gives an account of the effects 

 of the cold. At 1 500 feet elevation no damage. At the Sierra Madre 

 elevation the thermometer touched 32, at the foothills just above Monrovia 

 31. In the upper part of Monrovia 31, in the middle part 28. Just 

 below the town, lower in the valley it went to 22, and away down in the 

 middle of the valley at went as low as 1 7. At 30 and above no particular 

 harm done. This does not mean we can grow no Avocados except in the 

 higher foothills. We can. Many of the more hardy varieties will do 

 well wherever oranges will, but some of them must have better than the 

 average orange orchard conditions. 



We have all the past experience in orange and lemon growing in 

 California to guide us and prevent unwise locations being used for Avocado 

 orchards. Nor need any orange grower be deterred from planting them 

 on his property, if he will select the varieties proper for his location. 



SIX YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH BUDDED AVOCADOS 

 By J. T. Whedon, Yorba Linda 



Of the twenty-one varieties planted in 1914, the Fuerte is the only 

 one proving entirely satisfactory. The fifty Fuerte trees averaged $ 1 per 

 tree the second year from planting, and the third year, (which included the 

 June hot wave of 1917) $6 per tree. The fourth year, at the time of 

 this writing, October 1st, has every appearance of being far better than 

 either of the other years. 



The Dickey is the only other of the twenty-one varieties planted that 

 has contributed one cent towards its keep. The Harman, Ganter and all 

 other thin skin varieties have been top worked to commercial varieties, 

 principally the Fuerte. 



The Taft is acting very queerly. At two years of age quite a 

 number blossomed and set fruit, and four of them matured from one to 

 two fruits each; at three years of age several of them had from ten to one 

 hundred fruits set, but the June hot wave got away with all of them; this 

 year sixty per cent of the trees blossomed and set fruit, some of them as 

 high as one hundred to a tree, but for some reason they have all dropped 

 except about two dozen fruits on the sixty-eight trees. 



The Atlixco set quite a number of fruits, but they have all dropped 

 except six. The Sinaloa, Popocatepetl and Volcan have not even blos- 

 somed yet after four years of care. The Murrieta, after standing practi- 

 cally dormant for four years, took a notion to grow this spring and now 

 looks as though it might make a tree. Have two Millers. Both are 

 fruiting this year. Trapp set several hundred fruits, but all dropped 

 except one. The Perfecto, planted in 1916, has seven very nice fruits 

 on it this year. The Rey and Linda, planted in 1915 are both fruiting. 



