CALIFORNIA AVOCADO ASSOCIATION 



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had done so and to a novice it certainly looked as if something had 

 gone wrong with the trees but in the course of a month or six weeks 

 the trees looked better than ever. 



As to the results secured, — the trees are, we think, silent spokesmen 

 for themselves, and in order to give those interested in the development 

 of the avocado an idea of the present size of the trees we have taken a 

 few snap shots of them which we have attached to this paper. (See 

 Fig. 34). 



We have been told by those far better qualified to judge than we 

 are that our trees have made an exceptionally good growth and equal 

 to any of the trees planted for the same length of time. The bulk of our 



trees were planted in the 

 month of May, 1914, 

 making them about two 

 and one-half years old 

 from the planting in the 

 orchard to Nov. 1916. 



It may be interest- 

 ing to note that there 

 are quite a large percent- 

 age of the trees of the 

 Northrop variety which 

 have from one to a dozen 

 or more fruits on them 

 this season and we are 

 placing a few of these 

 fruits on exhibition. Half 

 a dozen or so of the 

 other varieties, Puebla, 

 Grande, etc., have a very 

 few sample fruits this 

 season. 



We are naturally 

 very much interested in 

 the development of the 

 avocado industry as we 

 think there ought to be 

 a large demand for the 

 fruit if it is brought to 

 the attention of the consuming public in a proper and intelligent man- 

 ner and while it is more or less of an experiment with us we have con- 

 fidence that the product can be marketed in such manner as to give the 

 producer a reasonable profit on the investment and at the same time 

 give the consumer a fruit of considerable food value at a reasonable 

 cost. 



