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ANNUAL REPORT 1920 AND 1921 



% protein . . . 

 % total sugars 

 % ash 



0.96 

 0.49 

 1.32 



Of the seedlings that have come into bearing on the Spinks place five are 

 considered especially promising, all having fruit from a pound to a pound and 

 a half in weight. The one considered the most interesting has been named the 

 * 'Alexandria." This fruit proved very fine in quality and flavor with a very 

 small seed and the tree is a strong grower. 



Among a good many on the Huntington Estate, No. 46 is the most inter- 

 esting, having very rich fruit. 



On the Oakley place at Brentwood Park are a number of fine flavored 

 Mexicans; Nos. 1 , 2, 3 and 4 being the more prominent among his Guatemalans. 



On the Stephens place at Montebello, his Nos. 1 and 2 test out well. At 

 his place and also at La Habra and Whittier the No. 1 5 introduction of Stephens 

 and Rideout has been on trial for several years, producing a fruit of extra fine, 

 rich, nutty flavor, but too many of the fruits have the undesirable crooked, curved 

 neck and the tree is too long in coming into bearing. The value of their intro- 

 duction No. 2 is still undetermined. 



We have examined interesting trees and fruit on the properties of Willard 

 Smith, Villa Park, Mrs. Ida Shaffer, Pasadena, Dr. Miles, Alhambra. Mrs. 

 Titus Phillips, Alhambra, C. F. Wagner, Hollywood, and others. 



Some good fruit measure up so well otherwise to the desirable qualities 

 required in a good avocado, that we regret when we find them disqualified for 

 general use by the presence of a seed much too big and out of all proportion 

 to the size of the fruit. Such fine fruits are the California grown by Milo Baker 

 at Hollywood and the Cady by L. D. Cady, Los Angeles. 



Two of the original West India Garden introductions have come into bear- 

 ing with fine fruit maturing in the Spring. The Montezuma, a green fruit with 

 a thick granular skin, dull yellow flesh, free from fiber, or with only a very slight 

 discoloration, flavor of the best, good and rich, weight of one sample, 18 oz., seed 

 3 oz. ; and the other fruit, the Schmidt, with a green color, thick skin, deep, 

 clear yellow flesh, free from fiber and the flavor smooth and rich; weight of 

 one sample 20 oz., seed 2 oz. 



At our Fall meeting many fine fruits of the No. 1 Seedling, cut and tested 

 by H. Hamburg, were exhibited. It is a variety which he has now decided to 

 call the "Quaker." The strong growing tree, ten years of age and thirty feet 

 in height, with spread of twenty-five feet, comes from a seed sent him from 

 Guatemala. It had a crop of a few the previous year and fifty in 1 920. Buds 

 taken from it and put into other stock have taken well and made strong healthy 

 growth. The fruit is large, green in color, up to a pound and a half in weight, 

 with seed of medium to small size, thick skin, clear cream colored flesh and 

 excellent flavor and quality, a slight bitterness showing in one test. 



The Anaheim, from a tree grown by E. C. Dutton at West Anaheim, on 

 property now owned by Otto Keup, was exhibited at the last annual meeting, 

 and five fruit were afterward tested by the Committee. They ranged in weight 

 from 24 to 18 oz., and the seed from 3% to 2^ oz. The fruit was light green 

 in color, with a thick skin and attractive appearance, clear yellow flesh with a 

 very small amount of fiber discoloration and good rich flavor in three specimens. 

 The other two were not so good and were thought to be immature. 



