ii4 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



PECANS AND ENGLISH WALNUTS. 



from Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. 



Dr. N. F. Howard, in the Dahloiiega (Ga. ) Signal, presents the following 

 views on the culture of Pecans and English Walnuts: 



Pecans and English Walnuts do well on any lands that the Black Walnut 

 and Hickory nut trees grow on. 



As is known, on a large per cent, of the land in Lumpkin county, as well as 

 throughout Georgia, these trees grow finely and fruit abundantly, especially 

 when cultivated. So will the Pecan and English Walnut trees grow rapidly 

 and bear at an early age, when properly cultivated upon a gray or red soil, 

 with a red or dark clay foundation; or on a deep, rich, black soil, they do well. 

 But on a poor land, with a white clay foundation, they will not thrive. The 

 English Walnut will die out, and the Pecan will do but little good on this 

 white clay foundation. 



Six years ago I decided that it would be nice to have a Pecan orchard, and' 

 planted eight hundred nuts. Of these three hundred came up and grew. I 

 planted thin and hard shell nuts, as purchased in the market. After this I 

 concluded to plant only select varieties. 



In November and December of 1892, and January and February, '93, I 

 planted three hundred and eighty-two Pecans and one hundred and fifty 

 English Walnuts, most of them by the use of dynamite. The trees set thirty- 

 six feet each way, being thirty-four to the acre. With a slate auger a hole was 

 bored thirty to thirty-six inches deep, and one-sixth of a pound of dynamite 

 was used, when a hole would be blown out some forty inches deep, which was 

 cleaned out and filled up with top soil, and the tree or nut planted in this. 

 Rich top soil is Better to fill the hole with than hot compost fertilizers. W T hen 

 the soil is deep and rich, the hole may not be cleaned out at all, as the ground 

 is shivered and loosened up some forty inches deep. 



I transplanted trees one, two and four years old. Also over one hundred 

 nuts in the hill where they were to remain. 



The younger the tree the better. It ought not to be more than one year 

 old when transplanted. It is still better to plant the nut in the hill where it is 

 to remain. 



Mr. Herbert Post says the Pecan ought not to be transplanted, but the 

 nut should be planted where the tree is to remain and grow. I am inclined to 

 agree with him. He also states that where dynamite is used, the tree will be as 

 large at six- years as it would be at ten if planted the ordinary way, and will 

 begin to bear fruit when six years old, and be profitable at the age of ten years. 

 Only about one in twelve of the trees died, and about one in ten of the nuts 



