CALIFORNIA AVOCADO ASSOCIATION 



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This information will, in time, constitute a performance record 

 from which your association, or you yourselves, can intelligently 

 pick out the best trees for budding. 



All sorts of mistakes that have been made in the propagation 

 of citrus and other fruits through the selection of poor trees for 

 propagation, even as to varieties so well established, can be avoided 

 and it seems to me to be a work of surpassing interest among 

 avocado growers to keep individual tree records as a basis for the 

 selection of trees for propagation. 



My suggestion would be to have ' these records handled 

 through your association, and the records kept by the association 

 for the members of the association. Perhaps that might be the 

 best plan. In any event, if any avocado growers desire to under- 

 take this work before the association is ready to care for the rec- 

 ords, we will be glad to co-operate to the extent of keeping these 

 records for you together with our citrus individual tree perform- 

 ance records. It means a tremendous lot in the avocado industry. 

 The problem is varied. There is a variety of means of selection 

 from seedlings and other trees, and the intelligent selection of 

 these trees, you know, can only be done through some definite 

 individual tree knowledge. It seems to me this information is 

 well worth while now. It is a practical thing you can take up at 

 this stage of the industry, and I believe is well worth doing. I 

 thank you. 



The chairman stated that Mr. Shamel's ideas were directly in 

 line with what the association is attempting to do at this time, and 

 asked that individual tree records be forwarded to the association. 

 Such records will be carefully tabulated and kept on file for the 

 benefit of members. 



In answer to a query in regard to the confusion in the nomen- 

 clature of the varieties, the chairman expressed the opinion that 

 within the next six months it will be possible to appoint a committee 

 to pass on names and register with the association in such a way 

 that members can get definite information as to varieties. 



