62 1916 ANNUAL REPORT 



TABLE 1. 



Record of Production, Original Chappelow Tree. 



(Data furnished by Mr. Wm. Chappelow, of Monrovia) 





Total 



Price 



Price received 



Main Crop 





No. of 



per 



net for fruit 



ripened 



Date 



fruits 



fruit 







1902 



300 



10 



$ 22 00 



SJpntpmhpT 



1903 



380 



10 



32.00 



Q p r* f p rn Vv p -p 



1904 



605 



10 



54.00 



August 



1905 



575 



25 



130.00 



August and Sept. 



1906 



235 



30 



65.00 



September 



1907 



465 



25 



85.00 



August 



1908 



1200 



15 



140.00 



July and September 



1909 



260 



25 



60.00 



August 



1910 



285 



25 



66.00 



October 



1911 



1023 



25 



250.00 



July and October 



1912 



350 



25 



76.00 



September 



1913 



20 (freeze) 







1914 



3215 



18-25 



404.00 



September and Oct. 



1915 



1723 



25 



199.70 





1916 



2861 





218.00 



Sept. to middle of Dec. 



The above table not only shows the total yield for each season but 

 also the months when the main crop ripened. It is exceedingly interesting 

 to note that apparently the main crop season shifted in various years, 

 showing a range from July to December during the 15 years. 



Table 2 on following page is a similar record of the Wagner avocado 

 for the years 1915 and 1916. 



This data shows very clearly a range of ripening season from March 

 to June for the Wagner variety as illustrated by the original tree, but 

 the budded trees might be found to vary slightly. Records similar to 

 this should be obtained for all original trees and a few budded trees of 

 each of our varieties. 



It is also important to urge at this time the growing of further 

 seedlings from seed taken from the best varieties as it is in this way 

 that new and improved sorts are almost wholly produced. Much of 

 our advance in the direction of better varieties will doubtless come 

 through importations. In all of this development the keynote should be 

 "safety first." No variety hereafter should be generally sold or offered 

 for sale until it has been fruited for several years in California and is 

 known to be promising in comparison with our known best sorts. 



Planting Problems. — The most fundamental problems regarding plant- 

 ing are yet in large measure a matter of guess-work. The commercial 

 avocado orchards that have thus far been planted usually have the trees 



