n6 A TREATISE ON NUT CULTURE. 



bottom for drainage, let stand on the ground out doors all winter, and in the 

 spring, just as they began to sprout, were planted out in a row three inches 

 apart, covered one inch deep. 



I don't believe three per cent, failed. They were in good soil and made 

 tops of from six inches to one foot. But when I got to digging them, something 

 was learned. Many of them had roots twenty inches long, and to get them 

 out entirely was no small job. The idea that nut trees are very difficult to 

 transplant is erroneous; the only trouble is, persons don't do it right. I raised 

 of that lot alluded to about one thousand, all of which were sent out all over 

 the Union. In all my observations I have never found one on upland. River 

 and creek bottoms are their home. An impression generally prevails that this 

 class of nuts must be planted before they get dry, or of any age; but this is 

 wrong, so far as the hickory is concerned, for a few years ago I planted some 

 paper-shell hickory nuts that had lain in a drawer for three years. They were 

 planted in the fall and every one grew. But they grew very slowly in the first 

 two years, and it is not likely that I will ever see them bear nuts. There are 

 thousands of acres in the South, the land of which is not vised for farming, that 

 would become very valuable in course of time if planted with the best Pecans, 

 or planted with any good growing ones, and when ten years old grafted with 

 the best varieties. W. R. Stuart, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, sent me the 

 finest yet received. On my grounds here are growing grafts of Nussbaumer's 

 hybrid Pecan, grafted on common hickory, several feet above ground. They 

 have not yet borne fruit, but may soon. While difficult to grow when grafted 

 on trees of some size (and it must be crown grafting), they take readily when 

 set on young trees a few inches under ground. Several of these hybrids or 

 crosses, whichever they may be called, have been sent to me; and I find that 

 several of them are larger than any Pecan I ever had seen. 



PECANS IN KANSAS. 



D. W. Cozad, Ltd. Cygne, Kansas, writes, November 7, 1895 : I gathered 

 over twenty-five bushels of Pecans from my young trees this season, some trees 

 six inches in diameter producing nearly two bushels of nuts. My neighbor 

 gathered over twenty bushels from his young trees. Many trees three to four 

 inches in diameter were loaded. Over three hundred bushels of Pecans were 

 gathered this season in this vicinity. In a previous communication, Mr. Cozad 

 wrote they frequently had the thermometer several degrees below zero. 



