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in that State, and is the author of "The Pecan and 

 How to Grow it," adds two more varieties to the above 

 list, viz. : Beauty and Columbia ; the latter, as figured 

 in the book named, is a very large variety, tapering 

 from a broad base to a sharp point. Judge Samuel Mil- 

 ler, of Bluff ton, Mo., found some very large and fine 

 varieties of the pecan in his neighborhood several years 

 ago, on the farm of a man named Meyers, and he pur- 

 chased the nuts from the tree bearing the largest in 

 the grove and planted them, and the seedlings have 

 since been distributed under the name of "Meyers' 

 Pecan." 



Judge Miller kindly sent me a quantity of these 

 nuts, from which I raised some fifty or more tree?, and 

 all have thus far been uninjured by the cold of our sever- 

 est winters. From my own experience in raising pecan 

 trees, and I may add, that of some of my neighbors, 

 those grown from nuts gathered in the more Southern 

 States are almost invariably tender here in the North ; 

 but those raised from thoroughly acclimated trees, along 

 the northern limits of this species, will give us a hardy 

 race, and probably allow of extending their cultivation 

 far north of their natural range. Those who intend to 

 try pecan culture in the Northern States should bear 

 this in mind, and secure nuts and cions from hardy ac- 

 climated trees. 



Varieties of the Shellbark. Of this species 

 (H. alba) there are as many distinct natural varieties as 

 of the pecan, and while local or neighborhood names are 

 plentiful enough, they have not, except in a very few 

 instances, been placed on record in agricultural reports 

 or other publications. Three small thin-shelled varieties 

 are named in the Eeport of the Pomologist of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture for 3891, viz. : Milford, 

 Shimar and Learning, but neither has been propagated, 

 and they are probably not worthy of it, because there 



