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some nuts during the last three years, but tlie product has been un- 

 dersized, poorly-filled and distinctly inferior. Mr. T.ittlepage reports 

 that during the past spring, these trees suffered appreciable injury in 

 the freezing back of the fruit spurs and that the nuts which formed 

 were from a second set of spurs. His trees bore in the neighborhood 

 of a bushel of nuts which looked more promising than usual until the 

 nnddle of October when freezing temperature occurring between the 

 1 itli and the 21tli, completely destroyed the crop. At Bell Station, 

 near Glenndale, Md., about three miles nearer Washington than Bowie, 

 at Marietta, a colonial plantation, there is a clump of pecan trees dating 

 back to tlie days of Thomas Jefferson. These are apparently- hard}' 

 except in the matter of yields. Dr. M. B. Waite, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, who has long known these trees, states that they bore 

 heavily in one year, about 1912. but that since that time, they have 

 borne very little. 



On the other liand, Mr. x^lbert Stabler of Washington, has 6 or 8 

 trees of varieties similar to those in the plantings of Messrs. Little- 

 23age and McReynolds and of about the same age, on a farm not far 

 from that of the latter, one variety of which, Major, in 1923 bore some 

 very fair (juality nuts. Although small, they were t3^pical for that 

 variety botli in respect to size and high quality. The crop of 192i 

 was practically a failure, the set being very light. In the test orchard 

 of Mr. ,1. F. Jones of Lancaster, Pa., young trees of several of the 

 better known varieties are making a good start in the way of beginning 

 to yield and in showing no appreciable signs of winter injury. INIost 

 of these trees bore light crops last year, (1923) but are practically 

 barren this year. 



South of Waynesboro, Pa., on a farm belonging to Mr. G. H. 

 Lesher, there are 7 seedling pecan trees some 50 years old, which not 

 only show no signs of winter injury outwardly visible, but have the 

 reputation of bearing fairly well on .alternate years. The present 

 (192i) being the favorable year, the trees had a good sprinkling of 

 nuts in clusters of as many as 5 each, when seen on July 23. A few 

 miles farther north, in the town of Mont Alto, at an altitude of about 

 1000 feet, near the location of the State Forestry School of Penn- 

 sylvania, another tree said to be 65 years old, and having a girth at 

 breast height of 65 inches, on the residence grounds of Mr. H. B. 

 Verdeer, is apparently as hardy as are the indigenous species of the 

 neighborhood. It is claimed to have recently borne three pecks of nuts 



