The Florida State Horticultural Society announces its brand new website, completely reimagined from the ground up to provide better services and support for our members and the horticultural community. Our new website, located at fshs.org, includes a new member management platform about which we’re especially excited. Current members should have already received an e-mail with instructions concerning their new username and password.

We’ve provided a brand new look, and made it easier to find our products and services. The new website brings:

• Web technology that is up-to-date with current Internet standards
• Faster, better member communication
• Job and resume posting services
• Integration with social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter
• Easy-to-navigate resources, such as our annual proceedings dating back to 1888
• Improved search capabilities
• On-the-fly compatibility with mobile devices
• Website subscriptions

Our new site is the result of our FSHS staff and board working closely with the designers every step of the way to ensure that the needs of the organization and its members are met.

The Florida State Horticultural Society is one of the oldest horticultural societies in the United States, established in 1888, consisting of horticultural and agricultural industry professionals, Master Gardeners, researchers and Extension faculty, students, and gardening enthusiasts. The society:

• Keeps you abreast of important advances in Florida horticulture
• Provides resources to connect employers and talented job seekers
• Provides a wide variety of information presented at the annual meeting
• Publishes the annual Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society
• Publishes regular FSHS newsletters with feature articles, botany facts, places of interest, events, and more

Feel free to contact us with your comments and questions, including your ideas about how the site is working for you. We hope you enjoy our new site, and we all hope it’ll be a great way for us to keep in better touch with each other!

Enjoy!

FSHS Staff and Board

Peter Antione, Ria Timarco, Jonathan Crane*, and Wanda Montás University of Florida, IFAS, Tropical Research and Education Center, 18905 SW 280 Street, Homestead, FL 33031

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The synchronous dichogamous flowering behavior of avocado trees promotes outcrossing and improves yields of many commercial avocado cultivars. To optimize cross-pollination, complementary cultivars (designated as Type A or B) must be planted in close proximity to each other. For a number of Florida avocado cultivars, the period of flowering is not known, making recommendations for planting arrangements for Type A and Type B cultivars difficult. From December through April of 2011 and 2012, trees of 14 avocado cultivars in several Homestead groves were monitored during their flowering period. ‘Arue’, ‘Donnie’, ‘Nesbitt’, ‘Peterson’, ‘Russell’, and ‘Simmonds’ began to flower during January, whereas ‘Bernecker’, ‘Beta’, ‘Brogdon’, ‘Lisa’, ‘Loretta’, ‘Miguel’, ‘Reed’, and ‘Tonnage’ did not begin flowering until February; most cultivars were done flowering during early April. An example of overlapping flowering periods of complementary flowering types includes ‘Tonnage’ (B-type) and ‘Donnie’ (A-type) and ‘Bernecker’ (A-type) and ‘Miguel’ (B-type).

December 2013 Newsletter Vol. 23-2

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“FSHS is one of the oldest horticultural society in the United States – it has been in existence since 1888. Please visit our website and take some time to browse our 100 + years of Proceedings and read our quarterly newsletter.

The Florida State Horticultural Society releases a quarterly newsletter. In the newsletter you may find questions from readers, articles reflecting events of interest to memebers, a reminder calendar and much more. Whether you work in the Citrus, Handling and Processing, Garden and Landscape, Krome, or Vegetable industry, you’ll be sure to find something of interest in our newsletter.

To view the latest FSHS. newsletter, refer to the section below. To view past FSHS, newsletters click on the archives link. Subscribe to begin receiving the FSHS Newsletter.

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.

View the 2007 Proceedings

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.

View the 2006 Proceedings

To view your article, click on the link above and locate it in the index. Then, roll over it with your mouse and click on it. The next screen will be that article. To view our Proccedings online, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Check this support solution if you have trouble viewing the Proceedings.