H2 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



ANSWER. Your poor worn out field would be a long time growing a 

 profitable crop of Pecans. The latter require a good soil in order to produce 

 large, vigorous and productive trees. However, by manuring the soil for 

 several feet around each young tree you may plant at once, and bring up the 

 remainder by pea crop, etc. 



It is best to plant choice nuts where you wish the trees to grow. Keep the 

 fresh gathered nuts in a box of loose soil, buried in the ground, protected from 

 mice, until the nuts commence to sprout in March. Then plant them in well 

 fertilized holes thirty feet apart each way, covering about two inches deep with 

 light soil, preferably leaf mould. 



Plant the land in cow peas and fertilize with two hundred pounds acid 

 phosphate per acre. Convert the vines into hay when in full bloom. Next 

 year plant in cotton and manure well. Don't plant in small grain for a crop 

 of grain, nor in corn. If convenient for shipping you might plant a row of 

 Peach trees between the rows of Pecans, one way; or a row of grape vines; in 

 either case to be removed in five or six years. One bushel of sound nuts will 

 probably be sufficient to plant twenty acres. 



PECAN ACREAGE JN .FLORIDA. 



Front Practical Nurseryman. 



Pecan growing in Florida has become in some parts an established indus- 

 try, from which large returns are expected as the years go by. It is stated by 

 the South Florida Home that there are now cultivated in that State about 

 four thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine acres of Pecans, comprising one 

 hundred and three thousand four hundred and sixty-three bearing trees. The 

 number of trees not yet of bearing age is given at one hundred and twenty -five 

 thousand three hundred and seventy-three. Santa Rosa county shows a large 

 part of the cultivated groves, the acreage reported being three thousand and 

 forty-six acres with seventy thousand three hundred and fifty-two bearing 

 trees and seventy-five thousand seven hundred and fifty-six non-bearing trees. 

 Citrus county has seven hundred and sixty acres in Pecans, comprising thirty- 

 six thousand four hundred and eighty trees, and Volusia county scores one 

 hundred and eighty-six acres and six thousand and seventy-two trees. 



GRAFTING PECANS. 



From Rural New Yorker. 



C. E. P., OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. O. P., of Beverly, N. J., would like to 

 get points on Pecan or Hickory grafting. To graft large trees is not feasible; 

 I have tried it for years, but bvidding is a success, though I succeeded only last 

 year so as to make a business of Pecan budding and grafting. About sixty per 



