PERSEA AMERICANA. Avocado. 
The Veranero from Caracas, Venezuela. A fine flavored 
variety with a characteristically yellow skin ripening at 
the end of the dry season (March), whereas the ordinary 
varieties there ripen in August. It grows at an altitude 
of 4500 feet and may prove adapted to Southern California. 
Prom photograph by Mr. H. Pittier, who sent in the seeds 
for propagation, March, 1913. S.P.I. No. 35121. 
