94 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



Louis Brediger, Idlewild, Texas, has five hundred trees grown from nuts, 

 planted where the trees are to stand. 



W. R. Stuart Estate, Ocean Springs, Miss. , has one hundred bearing trees 

 in cultivation, and five hundred trees coming to bearing, a large portion of 

 which are choice grafted varieties. 



H. S. Kedney, of Winter Park, Fla., has an orchard of four thousand 

 trees, covering one hundred acres, at Monticello, Fla., of grafted varieties. 

 Throughout Florida there are a number of Pecan groves, though mostly of 

 seedlings. 



In California you occasionally meet groves of five hundred to six hundred 

 trees, while on the Atlantic Coast there have been but few plantings. At 

 Federalsburg, Md., there is a grove of one hundred and fifty trees, seven years 

 planted, which is making vigorous growth. In Virginia there are some 

 individual trees producing good crops. Further up the coast, at Milford, Del., 

 is a fine large tree that seldom fails. At the I/orillard Stock Farm, Burlington 

 county, N. J., are two very large trees producing annually heavy crops of good 

 sized nuts, and there are a number of young trees growing in the county that 

 have not yet come to bearing. They are reported as growing finely in 

 Northern New York and New England States, though they have not come to 

 fruiting. And it may be that the tree will grow in northern latitude and with- 

 stand the low temperature and produce no fruit, on account of the male and 

 female flowers not developing at the same time. 



As the Pecan is grown only on this continent, and we have the whole world 

 for our market, it is difficult to estimate the importance or value of this produc- 

 tion, when we consider the area of country adapted to its culture, the ease 

 with which it is produced, and the susceptibility of improvement by selection, 

 in size of nut, cracking quality, thinness of shell and flavor of meat. 



As t ^ ie Pecans > like other nuts and fruits, cannot be 

 depended on to reproduce the exact types from seed, 

 the only safe plan to secure any desired variety is by budding, grafting, layers, 

 cuttings or suckers. Should it be impossible or impracticable to procure plants 

 thus propagated, and the planter is content with seedling trees, which may also 

 prove profitable, there should be great care exercised in selecting the nuts, which 

 until recently has been the only style of trees planted. With this method the 

 important features to be considered are large size, thin shells, plump kernel 

 and easily extracted, good quality, and from vigorous trees of productive habit. 



The Pecan may be propagated very readily from root cuttings, or by sever- 

 ing the roots of growing trees the detached roots will send up suckers, which, 

 of course, will be the same as the original tree. 



