448 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, I9l7. 



Whether or not to Abner Landrum belongs the credit of first bud- 

 ding pecans, I am not able to say. However, on February 28, 18-22, 

 he reports from Edgefield, South Carolina, the results of experi- 

 ments made in budding several difficult species and says: 



The pecan (Carya olivaeformis) did not appear to take so well as the wal- 

 nut but my trials were made rather late in the season/ 



In experiments carried out during the year 1822 ho had better suc- 

 cess. He reports late in that year : 



I have, this summer, budded some dozens of the pecan on the common hickory 

 nut, without a single failure as yet ; and some of them are growing linely." 



The notes here collected are to be regarded only as a fragmentary 

 contribution to the history of this interesting subject. 



1 American Farmer. 4 : 7, 1822. 



2 Ibid. 4 : 2G8, 1822. 



