From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14358 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, July 30 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14358 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Get Up to 93% Off in our Summer Kick Off Sale | Canvas Prints ["CanvasPri] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:09:34 +0200 From: "CanvasPrints Promo" Subject: Get Up to 93% Off in our Summer Kick Off Sale | Canvas Prints Get Up to 93% Off in our Summer Kick Off Sale | Canvas Prints http://trumphat.help/R9rUCNkP-bSJv4bQ3twHsrXJAISFHiiiKMAdrLdE_sqIH7BiFg http://trumphat.help/gVLmS5VBaUOKjaNhDnhQgmY3xcVNxLjbhKCWRPmnza7K--xlGA ding a magazine article illustrating an avocado tree with dollar bills hanging from it in 1925, Hass used all the money he had, plus a loan from his sister, Ida Hass, to buy a small acre and a half avocado grove at 430 West Road La Habra Heights, California. The trees were old Fuerte avocados with 2 or 3 Lyon as well as a few Pueblas and Nabals. The Fuerte was the best avocado available at that time, but Hass could not afford to buy more trees, so he decided to cut down many of the old trees and have them grafted over to Fuerte with new bud wood. Hass hired a professional grafter named Mr. Caulkins, who advised Mr. Hass to buy avocado seeds from a nursery owned by Mr. Rideout and grow his own seedlings and then have them grafted to the Fuerte variety. Hass agreed and followed his advice. He planted the rest of the grove on 12-foot (3.7 m) centers with three seeds in each hole. Cuttings from existing Fuerte trees were grafted onto the strongest of the three newly planted trees from each hole. All but three of the grafts 'took' and new Fuerte trees grew out of the new seedlings. Mr. Caulkins re-grafted those three trees. Then he re-grafted the one tree that had rejected the second graft. Again it did not take. Hass was ready to give up and asked Mr. Caulkins to chop it down, but Mr. Caulkins told him it was a good strong tree and advised Hass to "just leave it alone and see what happens." So Hass did. Mr. Hass was not a botanist like Luther Burbank (1849 - 1926) who purposely cross pollinated plants to produce over 800 better varieties. The seed that produced the Hass Avocado had already been cross pollinated by nature before Rideout sold it, along with a hundred ot ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14358 ***********************************************