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REPORT OF THE FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING 



we don't everybody is going to call the fruit alligator pear. I am 

 not sure but what they will anyway. The only chance of avoiding 

 that is to get behind one name. When we named this the California 

 Ahuacate Association, I thought we had adopted that name, but 

 it is only by standing behind it that we can get results. 



We have not been agreed on that name on the board of 

 directors. It has been the one question that we have not been 

 unanimous on, I want to see some decision arrived at. 



Assuming the chair. Dr. Coit said : 



Friends, the program has been completed. A good many 

 avocado growers have a lot in their minds, and we want to 

 get together and have a real heart to heart discussion and pass 

 around some of this information from one to another. So if any- 

 body hasn't time to stay — I suppose we can stay as long as we like 

 — until dinner time, now is the time for them to make their get- 

 away. This is an especially interesting subject. 



If you pardon me for saying just a word or two before throw- 

 ing this open to general discussion, I want to emphasize what the 

 president said in regard to this association and its importance and 

 urge every one who can, even if you don't grow avocados, to join 

 the association and give us your support. I have just returned from 

 a two weeks' trip through the desert country and I am very much 

 interested there about the date industry. They have organized a 

 Growers' Association, and they are directing that young, growing 

 industry of date culture in the right way, and it has developed very 

 successfully. In fact, I am interested in watching these two young 

 industries, the date growing industry and the ai'Ocado growing in- 

 dustry, and it is a question in my mind which one California is 

 going to be the proudest of in ten or fifteen years from now. 



A good many speakers today have mentioned this question of 

 varieties, and I would like to make a suggestion, and that is, that 

 with the large number of seedlings coming into fruiting, we are 

 going to have a confusion of names, unless some definite action is 

 taken. There are going to be so many seedlings that look so much 

 alike and so many people who raise a pet seedling in their backyard, 

 who think it like an only child, cannot be convinced but what it is 

 the best thing produced under the sun, that we need some commit- 

 tee — I don't see why the president of the association should not 



