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up tliere and examined the tree. It was 11 years old. It was one of 

 two trees which had grown from nuts which Mr. Geissler had planted 

 fourteen years before. He had obtained them in a sack which had 

 been bought on the Boston market by the proprietor of the store where 

 he is employed. They had been marked "Siberia." I have grave 

 doubts whether those nuts were grown in Siberia. I talked to Dr. 

 Yates Wilson about that and he confirmed my opinion that they were 

 probably grown in China. They were typical Chinese nuts. It was 

 a fine looking tree. 



We will spend a few moments now with the joecan. In a way tlie 

 pecan is our most important American grown nut. It is by far tlie 

 most important of our native species. This is a photograph of tlie 

 very largest pecan tree that we have on record. It measured 23 ft. 

 in circumference at breast height when that jahotograph was taken, 

 but it is understood that the tree was cut down soon after this picture 

 was taken. It was struck by lightning. It was in east central Okla- 

 homa. We know nothing about tlie bearing record. It was estimated 

 to be about 170 ft. liigh which, according to Sargent, is as high as 

 they grow. The largest living tree we have record of at the present 

 time is in Louisiana. Those of you who attended the meeting at 

 Easton last year saw and were photographed under what we think is 

 now the largest pecan tree in the United States. 



Near Easton there are a great many pecan trees like this. This 

 is on one of the arms of Chesapeake Bay between Easton and the 

 bay proper. They are all around there if you take the trouble to see 

 them. This is southeast of St. Michaels. 



This is a Louisiana seedling. It illustrates very perfectly the 

 fact tliat the southern species can be taken very much farther nortli 

 than their point of origin and grown successfully so far as the tree 

 itself is concerned. It is another matter to get even occasional crops 

 and still another matter to get paying crops. Dr. Deming took me to 

 as fine a pecan tree as you can see, near Hartford, Conn. The pecan 

 in that New England latitude is of very little use other than that of 

 ornamentation. 



Mr. Spencer: Not long ago I was talking with some people 



