PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 



which destroyed the top of the original Pabst tree at Ocean Springs. 

 Some two years later a sprout from one of the roots appeared, which 

 has developed into a symmetrical young tree, which bore its first nuts 

 in 1902. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Size large to very large, averaging about 40 to 50 nuts per pound; 

 form cylindrical, slightly compressed, with rather blunt apex and 

 rounded base; color brownish gray, moderately splashed and dotted 

 with purplish black; shell moderately thin; partitions thin and fragile; 

 cracking quality very good; kernel bright, moderately smooth, plump, 

 rather narrowlj r grooved; texture firm, fine grained, solid; flavor 

 delicate, rich; quality very good. 



The tree of Stuart is a strong, upright, spreading grower, with 

 moderately stout } T oung wood, grayish green in color, rather sparsely 

 dotted with oval dots. It is proving regularly and abundantly pro- 

 ductive in most localities where it has been fruited, and is apparently 

 succeeding over a wider climatic range than any other sort thus far 

 tested. 



The specimens illustrated on Plate LVII were grown by the Stuart 

 Pecan Company, Ocean Springs, Miss. 



VAN DEMAN PECAN. 



(SYNONYMS: Bourgeois, Duminie Mire, Mire; Mere, and Meyer erroneously; Paragon 



in part, Southern Beauty. ) 



[PLATE LVII.] 



The original tree of this variety was grown from a nut planted by 

 the late Duminie Mire, of Union, St. James Parish, La., in 1836. 

 Mr. Mire, then 25 years of age, secured nuts from a highly esteemed 

 tree on the adjoining place of Mr. Gravois, which he planted in the 

 garden surrounding his dwelling. Of the several trees that resulted 

 from this planting only the one described here is considered worthy 

 of perpetuation. Mr. Mire informed the writer, in October, 1902, 

 that the product of this one closely resembles the nuts planted. This 

 tree, which is locally known as the "Duminie," or "Duminie Mire," 

 attracted the attention of the late Emil Bourgeois, who, about 1877, 

 cut scions from it for propagation. Although this was his first effort 

 at grafting, he succeeded in getting 11 scions to grow out of 22 that 

 he set as top grafts on seedling trees near his residence on Rapidan 

 plantation. When these grafts began bearing he commenced prop- 

 agating young trees for planting in orchard form and for sale to the 

 near-by planters, among whom it is known as the "Duminie Mire" 

 pecan to this date. 



A considerable quantity of nuts and some scions from these grafted 

 trees having passed into the hands of Col. W. R. Stuart, of Ocean 



