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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
It is safer to give it another chance, pro¬ 
vided it possesses any good qualities, as 
the objectionable feature noted in the 
initial crop may never recur. 
Lloyd S. Tenny 
Mr Simmonds had to leave this after¬ 
noon and can not take part in this discus¬ 
sion. He left a sample here of an avo¬ 
cado which has, in the last six weeks, 
been given the name of Beardsley. There 
is some question as to whether this va¬ 
riety will retain this name as there is a 
possibility that there is a prior name. 
Mr. Simmonds is an enthusiastic be¬ 
liever in the avocado. I wish he had been 
here to say something to the Society. So 
long as he is not here, I feel it is an op¬ 
portunity for me to congratulate the 
growers of Florida, especially the avocado 
grower, that we have Mr. Simmonds in 
the state, and that we have a government 
station at Miami. They are testing out 
many varieties there. Mr. Simmonds is 
an excellent observer and the reports 
coming out from time to time from the 
Miami station relating to the different 
avocado varieties, will be simply invalu¬ 
able to us during the coming years. I 
think we should appreciate the work Mr. 
Simmonds is doing and give him any sup¬ 
port we can. 
Mr. Simmonds left this speciman with 
me, No. 36603; each of you can see it at 
the close of the session. 
