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form than are most of the mangoes thus far obtainable in our markets. 

 Season very late, ripening the latter part of August at Miami, Fla. 

 Sandersha is considered well worthy of testing .in the mango districts 

 of Florida, Porto Rico, and Hawaii. The specimen illustrated on 

 Plate XXXV was grown at the Subtropical Laboratory of the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry at Miami, Fla. 



PECANS. 

 [PLATE XXXVI.] 



As more attention is paid to the pecan as a nut producer in distinc- 

 tion from it as a forest species it becomes increasingly apparent that 

 only a very small proportion of the trees thus far brought to notice 

 possess sufficient merit to justify their perpetuation and dissemination 

 under distinctive names. This is especially true of varieties for com- 

 mercial orchards, and emphasizes the importance of conservatism in 

 the naming and introducing of varieties at the present juncture, when 

 thousands of planted seedlings in orchards throughout the South are 

 coming into bearing each year. At the same time it is recognized 

 that whenever a seedling is found to possess important characteristics 

 of decided superiority it should be immediately propagated, on an 

 experimental scale at least, to insure its preservation in the event of 

 destruction of the original tree. 



WOLFOED PECAN. 



The original tree of this variety is a wild seedling about 20 years 

 old standing on land belonging to Mr. H. L. Wolford, in Wilson 

 Creek bottom, near McKinney, Tex. It was called to the attention 

 of Mr. E. W. Kirkpatrick about 1898 by one of his employees, with 

 the result that Mr. Kirkpatrick began propagating it in a small way 

 the following year. He named it in honor of the owner of the tree, 

 and states that he published a description of the variety about 1902. 

 The original tree is so located that a considerable portion of each crop 

 is taken by trespassers, so that its actual yield for any year has not 

 been ascertained. It is reported to be a rather slender grower, with 

 tough wood and narrow leaves, and bearing numerous heavy catkins. 

 It is considered one of the most productive varieties grown in that 

 section, bearing many clusters containing 7 or 8 nuts each. In 1907 

 Mr. Kirkpatrick harvested 20 pounds of nuts from one branch of it, 

 6 inches in diameter, that had been top-worked on a tree of bearing 

 age. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Size medium or slightly below, averaging 75 to 90 nuts per pound ; 

 form oval to oblong oval, compressed, with a rather blunt, slightly 



Letter of E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex., December 11, 1907. 



