PICKING AVOCADOS IN MEXICO. 
(Persea americana Mill. See S. P. I. No. 46984.) 
The avocado groves of Queretaro are probably the most extensive in 
Mexico. The trees are all seedlings of the Mexican race, and most 
of them produce small fruits like those here shown. Little care is 
used in picking the fruits ; they are pulled from the tree with a hooked 
bamboo pole, and after they have fallen to the ground they are 
gathered and placed in large sacks in which they are carried to 
market. It speaks well for the shipping qualities of the Mexican 
avocados that they can stand such rough treatment. (Photographed 
by Wilson Popenoe, Queretaro, Mexico, July 23, 1918; P17538FS.) 
