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late fruits occasionally hanging on the trees until the 
end of January, or February. Trapp, the latest commercial 
variety, matures its fruit in late fall, and frequently 
carries some of the crop until the first of January, but 
after this time the quantity of avocados marketed from 
south Florida has been negligible. With the Guatemalan 
type it will be possible to supply the markets abundantly 
from December to April, the season of the year when fresh 
fruits are scarce and when, consequently, there should be 
an excellent demand for avocados. In the past it has always 
been the latest avocado which brought the highest prices. 
The Guatemalan type has an additional advantage in its 
thick, hard skin, which makes the fruit an excellent ship- 
per. In quality some of the varieties of this type are 
splendid excelling, in all probability, most of the summer- 
fruiting varieties which are grown in Florida. The first 
trees of this type which came into bearing at Miami were 
grown from seeds sent in by G. N. Collins from Guatemala 
in 1901. None of these seems likely to become of import- 
ance as a commercial variety, but they have served to point 
out the value and possibilities of this type for Florida. 
Another seedling (S.P.I. No. 26710) of the same type, grown 
at the Miami Garden from a seed sent from Los Angeles, 
Calif., in 1908, has proved to be a first-class fruit, and 
has been considered worthy of propagation as a named var- 
iety. This fruit, which is now called Taylor, has been in 
bearing at Miami for 3 years. Its origin and history are 
as follows: In 1908 J. H. Walker of Hollywood, Calif., sent 
fruits of two seedlings growing on his place to W.A.Taylor, 
pomologist of the Department at Washington. These varieties , 
though unamed at that time, have since been called "Chal- 
lenge" and "Royal". Mr. Taylor transmitted one of the seeds 
to the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, and 
it was sent to Miami to be grown. It is not known whether 
this seed was from the Challenge or Royal. The variety is 
now being propagated and disseminated at the Miami Garden, 
Another promising avocado which has recently been propagat- 
ed rather extensively at the Miami Garden is Buuler, S.P.I. 
No. 26690. This is a summer- ripening fruit of the West 
Indian type, and hence scarcely so Interesting at the pre- 
sent time as a variety of the winter-bearing Guatemalan 
type. However, a medium sized, prolific summer variety of 
good quality has not yet become established commercially 
in south Florida, and it would seem that in Butler we have 
a fruit of considerable merit. Butler originated as a 
seedling at the Miami Garden, the seed having been received 
from C. W. Butler, of St. Petersburg, Fla. , In 1304. The 
tree came into bearing in 1909, and has proved to be un- 
