Avocado in Southern California - 1911 - Topics in Subtropics

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Avocado in Southern California - 1911

Author: Ben Faber

Published on: October 17, 2018

In 1911, the avocado was a relatively new crop in Southern California and the great USDA plant explorer Wilson Popenoe (pronounced POP e Noe according to Jack Shepherd), describes avocado culture and its problems

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137628#page/31/mode/thumb

This is from the first volume ever of the Pomona Journal of Economic Botany which also has a nice description of "wither tip" of citrus in Santa Paula.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137628#page/5/mode/1up

Cover Avocado in Southern California - Wilson Popenoe

Tags: avocado (359), citrus (431), disease (62), horticulture (6), propagation (2)

Comments: 1

Comments:

by Greg Alder

on October 19, 2018 at 3:33 PM

And in that very year Carl Schmidt was gathering sticks of Number 15 in Atlixco to send up to the Popenoes in Altadena.

I'm not sure we've found a tastier avocado than Fuerte in the last 100 years.

Thanks for sharing this, Ben.