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single bud the whole year through. On cutting into these latter trees, 

 it was found that the bark was still fresh and green and the wood 

 living. They remained dormant a whole year, and some of them 

 budded out the following spring. I have seen trees of other kinds 

 that were tardy to bud out after transplanting, but in all my horti- 

 cultural experience I have never seen anything to equal the tardiness 

 and irregularity in budding of transplanted pecan trees. This pecidi- 

 arity was so marked, and in such striking contrast to other trees, that 

 from that time on careful records were kept of the time of budding-out 

 of the pecan trees in the spring and their maturing of buds and ter- 

 minals in the fall. As was to be expected, there was less variation 

 in the time of beginning growth the following season, for most of the 

 trees had become established and were ready to put out as soon as 

 weather conditions were favorable. 



The following tabulated report gives a record of the behavior of the 

 twenty-seven varieties under test during the season of 1910, which 

 was a normal season: 



