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PROMISING NEW FRUITS. Ill 



POST PECAN. 

 (SYNONYM: Post's Select, in part.) 



[PLATE LVII.] 



The original tree of the Post pecan is a wild seedling on the farm 

 of Mr. H. B. Freeman, on the Colorado River bottom, in San Saba 

 County, Tex., near Milburn, McCulloch County. The farm was for- 

 merly owned by a Mr. Post, by whose name the variety was locally 

 known prior to 1891, when Mr. Herbert Post, of Fort Worth, Tex., 

 began purchasing the crop and advertising it and other pecans widely 

 under the trade name "Post's Select." Little effort appears to have 

 been made to perpetuate the variety by graf ting until a comparatively 

 recent date. 



When examined by the writer in November, 1903, the original tree 

 was in fairly thrifty condition, and had a circumference of 9 feet 8 

 inches at 18 inches from the ground. Its crop has varied from 1 to 

 11 bushels per annum in recent years. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Size medium, averaging about 65 to 75 nuts per pound; form com- 

 pressed, short, obovate, with a rather blunt, conical apex; color bright 

 reddish yellow, showing very few purple splashes; shell thick, par- 

 titions thick, cracking quality medium; kernel clear, bright straw 

 color, but deeply grooved and wrinkled; texture firm, compact, fine 

 grained; flavor delicate; quality good. 



The original Post tree is a moderately strong, upright grower, with 

 rather slender, bright } T oung wood with numerous small dots, and 

 is quite regularly productive. The variety has been fruited on buds 

 or grafts in but few places, and its behavior outside of the locality of 

 its origin can not yet be determined. 



The variety described is the true Post. In recent years an entirely 

 distinct sort, the Hollis, which originated at Bend, San Saba County, 

 Tex., and is a larger and apparently superior nut, has been distributed 

 by the introducer under the name " Post's Select." 



The specimens illustrated on Plate LVII were furnished by Mr. 

 E. W. Kirkpatrick, of McKinney, Tex. They were from the original 

 tree. 



ROME PECAN. 



(SYNONYMS: Century, Columbia, Columbian, Mammoth, Pride of the Coast, Southern 



Giant, Twentieth Century.) 



[PLATE LVII.] 



The original tree of the Rome pecan was grown from a nut planted 

 by the late Sebastian Rome in his garden at Convent, St. James 

 Parish, La., about 1840. The source from which the nut which he 



