Bui. 743, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate i, 
An Avocado Tree in a Coffee Plantation at Antigua. 
Several kinds of quick-growing trees are used in coffee plantations to furnish shade for the delicate 
coffee bushes. Avocados spring up from seeds dropped hy workmen, and where they do not 
interfere with other trees they are often allowed to grow and form part of the shade system. Some 
of the best avocados in Guatemala are found in such situations as the one here shown. In order 
to keep them from interfering with the coffee bushes the lower limbs are usually pruned off, and 
a slender, erect form of tree is encouraged. (Photographed at Antigua, Guatemala, May 3, 1917; 
P17250FS.) 
