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capable of more complete assimilation than those which have a high 

 melting point. It is highly probable that the melting point is not the 

 only criterion of digestibility but the low melting point of avocado oil 

 undoubtedly favors its utilization. Other factors which must also favor 

 its utilization are its finely emulsified condition in the fruit (suggesting 

 milk) and the relative absence in the fruit of hard and resistent fibre 

 (as in nuts) because of which fat is rendered less accessible to the c: 

 gestive secretions. 



METHODS OF AVOCADO GROWING IN THE TROPICS 

 APPLICABLE TO CALIFORNIA 

 E. E. Knight, Yorba Linda, California. 



Methods employed in one country are not always applicable in 

 another, still they offer many suggestions worthy of trial. 



Having passed practically all my life in the tropics I am more 

 familiar with those countries than with California. In my own planting 

 of the avocado I am trying to reproduce as nearly as possible, the 



Figure 8. — Avocado tree in Guatemala from which buds of 

 the "Linda" were taken. 



