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aud sandy that it appeared to be nothing but a blow-sand, 

 were small, but were early and heavy nut producers. 



The trees 



TRANSPLANTING PECAN TREES. 



From the foregoing it is evident that pecan trees require a deep soil 

 where their downward root growth is unimpeded by subsoil or hard 

 pan. In planting pecan trees year after year for the last five seasons 



Fig. 9. A dynamited hole showing the cracked-up subsoil. 

 (By courtesy of DuPont Powder Company.) 



and taking notes on the resulting stand, I am becoming more and more 

 impressed that greater care should be taken in planting pecan trees 

 than any other kind of nursery stock. To get that enormous tap-root 

 of the pecan tree safely out of the nursery row into its permanent 

 home in the orchard must require some care. The less of exposure 

 and injury to the root in this transfer the better result in living trees. 

 Many good pecan trees die because they find soil conditions in the 

 orchard so different from those they left in the nursery. To grow 



