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E-book Avocado Production in California : A Cultural Handbook for Growers

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Avocado is native to the New World, originating in southern Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The fruit has long been used as a food by Native Americans in these regions and was know by the Aztecs as “ahuacatl”. Avocado was first mentioned in print in the report Suma de Geographia by Martin Fernandez de Enciso, published in Spain in 1519 (Popenoe and Zentmyer 1997). He observed the fruit growing in what is now Santa Marta, Columbia during an expedition with the Spanish explorer Juan de la Cosa. A more extensive description of avocado was written by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo (1478-1557), historian for the conquistadors traveling with expeditions led by Hernando Cortez in 1519. His account was published in 1526 in the Summario de la Natural Historia de las Indias: “They are large trees, with broad leaves similar to those of the laurel, but larger and more green. They bear pears weighing a pound and even more, though some weigh less, and the color and shape is that of true pears, and the rind somewhat thicker, but softer, and in the center of the fruit is a seed like a peeled chestnut…and between this and the rind is the part which is eaten, which is abundant and is a paste similar to butter and of very good eating and of good taste, and such that those who have these fruits guard themand esteem them highly and the trees are wild as are the others which I have mentioned, for the chief gardener is God, and Indians apply no work whatever to them. These pears are excellent when eaten with cheese, and they are gathered before they are ripe and stored, and when treated thus they ripen perfectly for eating but after they have reached this stage they spoil quickly if allowed to stand.” The Spanish name, Aguacate, was first used in 1550 by Pedro de Cieza de Leon (1518-1554), Spanish
conquistador and historian, in a journal of his travels. (The Spanish apparently couldn’t pronounce the Aztec name ‘ahuacatl’. ‘Ahuacatl’ in the Aztec language meant ‘testicle’, most likely because of the shape of the avocado fruit.) He noted that at that time the avocado grew in Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. Avocados were encountered continuously by various explorers during the sixteenth century from Ecuador and Peru northward through Central America and Southern Mexico, as far north as Mexico City. Avocados were also encountered by explorers and travelers in the West Indies, although Popenoe and Zentmyer believed that they were introduced to these islands after the Conquest by Spain. George Washington wrote in 1751 that he had tasted “agovago pears” in Barbados as they were popular and abundant in the marketplaces. In the 1700’s the European sailors called avocados ‘midshipman’s butter’ because they used them as a spread on hardtack.

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No. Panggil

634.6 ARP a

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USA : UCAN Eduation.,

Deskripsi Fisik

74 hlm

Bahasa

English

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Klasifikasi

634.6

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Tropical and Subtropical Fruits

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