34 The Bulletin, 



The following letter gives an experience in raising pecan trees by 

 planting nuts : 



PiKE\aLLE, N. C, November 22, 1909. 



Deab Sir: — I saw your notice in Bulletin No. 8 (1909), concerning 

 seedling pecans. 



I have some seedlings that are good and some not so good and 

 some that are not fit for a hog to eat, that all came from seed planted 

 eighteen years ago. I have cut down some of the largest trees, the 

 nuts of which were very rough and bitter. 



My trees all came from one pound of pecans that I bought in 

 Goldsboro, N. C, eighteen years ago. They all looked alike to me, 

 but the nuts produced from them are all different. I have only one 

 out of the whole lot that is good enough to keep. If I could get them 

 I would like to plant some of the budded trees for my children, for 

 I am OS years old. 



I am sending you SO nuts by mail, so that you can test them for 

 yourself. Very respectfully, 



John T. Dees. 



Many similar experiences could be given of the results obtained 

 by planting nuts and seedling pecan trees. Figs, 17 and 18 show the 

 resulting fruit from seedling trees produced from nuts planted from 

 the same tree. 



Fig. is. Nuts from seedling trees, all produced by planting nuts from the same tree. 



The following table gives a cracking test of a number of varieties 

 of pecan nuts. It does not give a record of all the varieties growing 

 in the test orchards, but is from our stock collection of nuts. A test 

 of seedling nuts sent in from different parts of the State has been 

 made wherever there was a sufficient quantity of nuts in the sample. 



