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varieties, their vigor and hardiness, their productivity and their soil 

 adaptations. 



The northern pecan hickory is a little better off in respect to 

 nursery production in quantity, and successful transplanting, and we 

 know more about the characteristics of the parent trees, thanks to 

 Mr. Littlepage and his collaborators, but we do not yet know how far 

 from their native localities, and under what soil and cultural condi- 

 tions, we can recommend the Indiana and Iowa types of pecans for 

 commercial planting. Unless there has been a change in conditions 

 that I do not know about Mr. Littlepage's hopes for the Indiana 

 pecans in Maryland have proved disappointing. Mr. Riehl was pessi- 

 mistic about them in his part of Illinois. There is one way in which 

 this question could be now, or very soon, cleared up, and that would 

 be to follow up, either by a questionnaire, or better in person, the 

 distribution of these trees in the jjast by the several nurserymen wlio 

 have produced them. What pleasanter way to spend a vacation than, 

 armed with a list of the customers of Littlepage and White, J. F. 

 Jones, Ford Wilkinson and other nurseries, to drive about the country 

 and observe the pecan and other nut trees that they have distributed? 



(3f the shellbark hickory we have no outstanding variety and no 

 variety of the jiignut or the mockernut in cultivation. I have long 

 thought that we have not sufficiently investigated their possibilities. 



The natural hybrid hickories are extremely interesting but we 

 know less about them than about the shagbark and the pecan. Es- 

 pecially we do not know how they will go with the public as nuts to 

 eat. Everyone knows the sliagbark and the pecan but the hybrids are 

 absolutely new nuts to the public. Therefore I think we should go a 

 little slow in recommending them for extensive planting. 



The field for artificial, man-made, hybrid hickories in the North 

 is still .1 virgin one, neglected but of great promise. 



There is one point on which I feel that enough emphasis has not 

 been laid in regard to the hickories, as indeed with regard to most 

 nuts, and that is the need for high culture and abundant feeding to 

 get the best results. As I liave observed them the hickories, and 

 nearly all nut trees, are quite different objects in fullness and 

 luxuriance of foliage, in rapidity of growth, and in resistance to 



