The Bulletin. 



33 



fore of little use for farm purposes. As little is to be expected from 

 seedling pecan trees before fifteen or eighteen years, these trees were 

 left more or less to shift for themselves and nothing much expected 

 from them for some years. In 1891, five years from setting out, one 

 tree bore 32 large, fine nuts that weighed one pound. This was so 

 different from what was to be expected from pecan trees that it was 

 thought advisable to give the whole thirty acres of seedlings more 

 cultivation and attention. The next year this six-year-old tree bore 

 %y 2 pounds of nuts. From this beginning it has borne an annually 

 increasing crop. At eighteen years of age the tree bore its eleventh 

 crop, which was four bushels. At this time the tree was so heavily 



Fig. 16. — Frotscher Pecan Tree belonging to Mr. J. B. Wight, Cairo, Georgia, 

 fifteen years old and bore last year 169 pounds of nuts. 



It is 



cut for budding wood that its normal growth was considerably im- 

 peded. Of course, the trees that are produced from such a variety by 

 budding or grafting faithfully reproduce the characteristics of the 

 parent tree. A number of two-year grafts and eighteen-months-old 

 buds inserted in one-year-old seedling stocks in 1902 began to bear 

 in 1904. One of these little trees, not over seven feet in height, had 

 on it 24 nuts, in clusters, the largest cluster of which had eight nuts. 

 The above cut (Fig. 16) is that of a budded Frotscher pecan which 

 belongs to Mr. J. B. Wight, of Cairo, Ga. The tree was purchased 

 from Mr. William Nelson, New Orleans, in January, 1892. It was 

 about three feet high when set. and cost $2. The first column gives 



