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Avocado as a hors d'oeouvres. 
"Cut in rather thick slices, warm in frying pan, 
serve hot on squares of toast. 
Avocado as a vegetable. 
"Boil in salt water for five minutes; make a heavy 
white sauce and pour over the well-drained avocado. 
Avocado for pies. 
"Mash the avocado to a fine pulp. To each cup of 
pulp add one well-beaten egg, three-fourths cup milk, 
large spoonful sugar, pinch of salt. Place in pie crust 
and bake." 
In a letter dated September 7, 1920, Mr. W. H. 
Bach, of Burbank, Calif., writes; 
"We won 3 blue ribbons and a special prize at the 
Burbank Harvest Festival for display of fruits from 
experimental plants received from your Office, and 
we have been solicited for an extensive display of 
fruits and plants next season. 
"Two trees of 'Early peach' {Amygdalus persica, S.P.I. 
No. 33219) planted February, 1918, bore a few fruits in 
June, 1919, and this season the trees -are six feet high, 
broad in proportion, and bore about 300 fruits. I 
picked the first fruit June 4, and the ripe fruit was 
all gone before the 'Elbertas' within 20 feet of them 
were through blossoming. The fruits of the 'Early 
peach' have a greenish tinge to the flesh, a pretty 
red cheek, and a fine flavor. I am preparing to put 
them on the market and will plant about an acre of them 
instead of the lemons now in that place." 
Mr. D. W. Coolidge, Pasadena, California, writes 
November 26, 1920: 
"We are getting a pretty good start with the Citrus 
limonia (S. P. I. No. 23028). We now have over 1,000 
plants ready to go into 6-lnch pots, and over 2,000 in 
2-inch pots ready to line out in the spring. I saw yes- 
terday one of our plants grown from a cutting, proba- 
bly 2 to 3 feet across and 2 feet high, that had on it 
more than 4 dozen lemons, and the owner assured me 
that he had picked off more than he had left on. I am 
entirely convinced that this is a superb novelty both 
for economic and ornamental purposes." 
