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trees, if not drones. We are fortunate in having budwood brought to us 

 by Messrs. E. E. Knight and Wilson Popenoe, cut from the very best 

 bearing trees in Guatemala. 



Quite a number of writers have classed the avocado as a gamble. 

 It certainly was in the beginning, but there are now enough proven varieties 

 on the market to put it on a par with any other horticultural business. If 

 the pioneers had had the information before them that circular No. 1 

 issued by the Association now gives, it would have saved them many a 

 dollar. There may be several varieties named in this circular that will 

 have to give way to new and better varieties, but in the writer's opinion 

 the Sharpless and Fuerte will always remain on the standard list. 



Growers selecting varieties to plant should be governed by the lo- 

 cality they are living in. Where they have killing frost it is a loss of 

 time and expense to plant the tender kind, unless they are prepared to 

 protect them for the first two or three years. It is also just as important 

 to know that the nursery stock you are buying has been budded from good 

 bearing trees as it is to select the variety, and I know of no better way, in 

 making your selection, than to buy of nurserymen who keep a performance 

 record of the stock they are budding, which shows the row, number of 

 tree, and in large groves the block, the buds are taken from. The 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture has men in 

 the field who keep a check on all performance record groves, which gives 

 the buyer that additional protection. 



REPORT ON THE EXHIBIT AT THE CALIFORNIA 

 LIBERTY FAIR 



By Lester Keller, Yorba Linda, Calif. 



As chairman of the exhibit committee for the Liberty Fair I wish 

 to report. 



When the Fair was first to be opened we had a splendid display of 

 fruit collected, mostly of the thin skinned varieties, due to the fact of the 

 June heat of 1917. 



When the opening of the Fair was announced for the second time 

 we had collected a somewhat smaller exhibit but again we were doomed 

 to disappointment. 



When the Fair did open on the third attempt we had but few of the 

 thin skinned fruits but a nice display of the thick skinned fruits, most of 

 which were immature. 



We had fruit exhibited by Messrs. Baker, Walker and Wagner of 

 Hollywood, West India Gardens, Hardin of Santa Monica, Rideout and 

 Gano of Whittier, Shedden of Monrovia, Spinks of Duarte, Adams of 

 Upland, Sharpless of Tustin and Whedon, Knight and Keller of Yorba 

 Linda. 



When the Fair opened we commenced answering questions and ex- 

 plaining about the Avocado and never stopped until the Fair closed, work- 

 ing from 1 A. M. till 8 P. M. daily. We distributed literature gotten 



