CALIFORNIA AVOCADO ASSOCIATION 



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^^^alker intends to make a special investigation of the avocado, and 

 has kind!}' offered to get any information desired in connection 

 with this association for its members. His address is F. J. Walker, 

 San Fernando, California. 



SOME INTERESTING ARTICLES 



R. Brinsmead, Staff Correspondent, California Citrograph, Riverside 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, — We much appreci- 

 ate the fact ve have been allowed to call to your attention 

 that California now has a publication dcA'oted to subtropical 

 and tropical agriculture, and it is our intention to publish 

 a monthly department devoted to the avocado, and in doing so we 

 hope to have the co-operation of the association in the matters 

 presented there. In the coming November issue there will be a 

 considerable amount of space devoted to that matter, and in addi- 

 tion to covering the October meeting, the president of your asso- 

 ciation, Mr. Edwin G. Hart, has kindly consented to prepare a 

 paper. Professor Jaffa has prepared a paper, and Mr. E. E. Knight 

 is preparing something for us. We are seeking to support the 

 avocado growers and feel sure in this publication you will find 

 the answer to many questions which perplex you and in which 

 you are interested, and in the course of our work we are co-oper- 

 ating with your association in collecting data from such growers 

 as are found around the dift'erent citrus districts wdio are plant- 

 ing large or small numbers of trees. 



GENERAL DISCUSSION 



The chairman announced that the time had come for general 

 discussion, and continuing, said : 



I am going to ask Dr. Coit to take the chair for guiding this 

 discussion. One thing I desire to remark upon now, and that is, 

 it is up to us to all decide on a name and stick to it, if we want 

 something which will take the place of "alligator pear." My 

 favorite has been ahuacate. I am predisposed to that because I 

 learned the name in Mexico, but I am willing to bury my own 

 preference with the idea that the association should at this meeting 

 decide by a ^'ote of some sort, which name to adopt, and with the 

 understanding that it stands back of the name chosen, because if 



