mate results are j^oor- This is probably because the shagbark starts 

 early and makes its season's growth in about six weeks, while the pecan 

 naturalh^ has a much longer growing season. However^ these observa- 

 tions have been made, mostly, in the South and it may be different in 

 the North. The question is not yet finally decided. 



The Stanley shellbark, H. laciniosa, is completely at home on the 

 shagbark, api^arently, but has not yet borne with me. 



The Hatch bitternut grew luxuriantly on shagbark for a year but 

 blew off. 



The Zorn hybrid made a growth of one foot on shagbark but 

 then was winter killed, apparently. 



I have a back pasture full of vigorous pignuts, H. glabra, which 

 for eleven years I have been grafting with faith which now seems 

 childlike, that soon I would have fourteen acres of bearing hickory 

 trees. Yet as a result of all these years of grafting the only hick- 

 ories that I have found to thrive are the Brooks, which appears to be 

 vigorous, the Terpenny, which is vigorous and bearing nuts in its fourth 

 year, and possibly the Barnes. Not a single pecan survived more than 

 a year, though many started. The Beaver hybrid makes a long splindl- 

 ing growth and then, in the first or second year, the leaves turn 3'ellow 

 and mosaic and the growth dies. The Kirtland, Kentucky, Hales, 

 Taylor and several others, have all with me, proved failures on the 

 pignut. Mr. Bixby's experiments appear to be showing somewhat dif- 

 ferent results. 



The question of the compatibility of species and varieties is really 

 a very important one because in some localities either the pignut or the 

 mockernut is the prevailing species, and we wish to know with what 

 species and varieties they may be successfully grafted. For instance, 

 if the Barnes, which is an excellent sliagbark, will (l<i well on both the 

 pignut and the mockernut, where so many other varieties fail, and the 

 Brooks is at home on the pignut, these are highly important facts to 

 be known by the man with fifteen acres of hilly woodland full of 

 young pignuts and mockernuts. 



Size of Siocks 



I prefer stocks of moderate size, up to three inches in diameter. 

 One gets greater results for the labor with these than with larger 

 trees. Of course a tree of any size may be topworked but the labor is 

 disproportionately greater, especiallj' in the after care. 



