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The tree is a moderately strong, though rather slender, grower and 

 is reported to be productive in several localities where it has been 

 top-worked during the past five or six years. 



TECHE" PECAN. 



(SYNONYMS: "Frotscher No. 2;" "Duplicate Frotscher;" "Fake Frotscher;" "Spuri- 

 ous Frotscher.") 



Among the budded trees of the Frotscher pecan when first dissemi- 

 nated by Mr. William Nelson and the late Mr. Richard Frotscher, 

 of New Orleans, about 1885, 6 it has recently been discovered that 

 there were trees of at least one other variety quite closely resembling 

 it in wood and habit of growth, but yielding a smaller and more con- 

 ical nut. This sort, which reached a number of growers, including 

 Mr. J. B. Wight, c of Cairo, Ga., and Dr. J. B. Curtis, of Orange 

 Heights, Fla., in this way, has proved to be of sufficient merit to 

 entitle it to a distinctive name. The place of its origin is not known, 

 but since it appears to trace to the first lot of Frotscher scions received 

 by Mr. Nelson d from Mr. Frotscher for propagation, all of which 

 were supposed to have come from the original Frotscher tree near 

 Olivier, La., on the Bayou Teche, it is probable that the parent tree 

 of this one was somewhere in that vicinity. Acting on this suppo- 

 sition, the committee on nomenclature and standards of the National 

 Nut Growers' Association, at its annual meeting at Scranton, Miss., 

 in November, 1906, named the variety "Teche" to distinguish it 

 from the true Frotscher. As there appears to be good reason to sup- 

 pose that several other varieties closely resembling Frotscher have 

 been and still are mixed with that variety in many orchards and 

 nurseries, the name Teche should not be indiscriminately applied to 

 all the " spurious" Frotschers, but should be restricted in its appli- 

 cation to the one which is here described from specimens grown by 

 Mr. Wight on trees obtained from the Nelson nursery in 1895. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Size medium to large, averaging 55 to 65 nuts per pound ; form long 

 oval, compressed, tapering gradually, with the smaller specimens 

 slightly curved near apex; color bright, light, with few broken black 

 stripes; shell comparatively thin, but thicker than Frotscher, with 

 which it was disseminated through error; partitions thin and soft; 

 cracking quality excellent; kernel bright and free from the objection- 

 able brownish veining of the Frotscher, plump and uniformly well 



Pronounced Tesh. 



6 Yearbook, 1904, p. 408. 



c Letters from J. B. Wight, November, 1906; also The Nut Grower, June, 1906, p. 199. 



<'Wm. Nelson in The Nut Grower, August, 1906, p. 18. 



