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about the size of the Easton pecan tree, and one of the gentlemeji 

 present spoke up and said it is not the oldest planted pecan tree in 

 the United States, because up in Biotasch the Acadians planted some 

 when they came from Halifax, N. S. I asked him how they got pecans 

 in Nova Scotia and he could not tell. Have you ever seen it? 



Mr. Reed: No, I have not. 



This is a picture in one of the orchards we have been hearing 

 about. It is that of Mr. O. H. Casper near Anna, 111., put out in 1917. 

 They were grown by Mr. Littlepage in his nursery out in Indiana. 

 It is a very interesting orchard. It is in semi-pasture. The mowing 

 machine had been over it a few days before this picture was taken. 

 These trees are growing thriftily and bearing some nuts. When I 

 saw them last year they had an average of two or three nuts to the 

 tree in the 12th year that they had been out. 



This is a picture of the parent Busseron near Vincennes, Ind. 

 The top had been cut back severely in order to get budding wood and 

 stimulate new growth. The Busseron is one of the best known of our 

 northern varieties; in fact we have only about eight altogether. 



At this day we have little idea of some of the difficulties that the 

 ))ioneers had. This is the trunk of the parent Green River in a forest 

 some 15 miles from Evansville, Ind., on the Kentucky side. It was 

 not this tree, but the Major which is very much like it which, according 

 to Mr. Littlepage, measured 59 ft. to the first limbs, and the bud 

 wood was from 75 to 100 ft. high. Mr. Littlepage, Ford Wilkinson 

 and two or three others went to get some bud wood. They had written 

 Mr. Jones about the height of these trees and the difficulty of getting 

 wood. Mr. Jones wrote back: "If you will send to Sears, Roebuck & 

 C"o. and get a pair of their 15 ft. pruners you will have no difficulty 

 in getting: vour scions. When it came time to climb these trees one 

 man thought he could make it. He put on the spurs, went up 15, 25 

 feet and higher, ffot white in the face, came down and nearly fainted. 

 After that ^Ir. Ford Wilkinson went up the tree to near the top. If 

 it liad not been for Mr. Wilkinson I don't know how we would have 

 obtained the scions. The Green River is one of the latest maturing 

 varieties and at Bowie it is quite frequently caught by fall frosts. 



