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varieties will be found under this name when the plantings already 

 made come into bearing. So far as known, all the nursery-grown 

 trees disseminated under the name " Bolton " during the past ten years 

 trace to the Puleston tree, and this is considered the true Bolton. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form short, broad, roundish oval, with broad, smooth base and 

 blunt, quadrangular apex; size uniform, medium, 60 to 65 per pound; 

 color grayish brown, with numerous black stripes toward apex ; shell 

 thick, with thick but soft partitions, cracking quite easily; kernel 

 broad, plump, smooth, with broad, shallow grooves, brownish yellow. 

 somewhat convoluted; texture rather soft, but fine grained; flavor 

 sweet, nutty; quality good to very good. 



Wood rather stout, straight, greenish to light gray, with incon- 

 spicuous dots and slender, rather blunt buds. 



The largest crop yet harvested from the original tree was 50 

 pounds, but as it has been heavily cut for scions that is not considered 

 a fair indication of the productiveness of the variety at its present 

 age of 20 years. 



Though apparently not as productive as some other varieties, this 

 sort seems well adapted to the conditions of northern Florida and 

 southern Georgia, where it is now in bearing. 



The specimens illustrated on Plate XLIX were grown by Judge 

 T. M. Puleston, Monticello, Fla. 



CABMAN PECAN. 



The original tree of the Carman pecan stands in the seedling 

 orchard of Mr. S. H. James, Mound, La., which was grown from nuts 

 planted by him in 1884. It, with many others, was grown from 

 nuts purchased by Mr. James at a fancy-fruit store in New Orleans, 

 the exact source from which these nuts were obtained being unknown 

 at the present time. The orchard in which the original tree stands is 

 planted 30 by 60 feet, a distance entirely too close for rich alluvial 

 soils such as it is located on, so that the development of the original 

 Carman has been somewhat restricted by the crowding of adjacent 

 trees. It began bearing at the age of 9 years from the seed and, next 

 to " Moneymaker," which originated in the same orchard, Mr. James 

 reports it as the most promising sort yet tested at his place. 



Mr. James at first considered the Carman tree insufficiently vigor- 

 ous for commercial planting, but, having increased his stock of the 

 variety to 20 trees in his own orchard, beginning about 1897, he con- 

 cludes that it is more vigorous than a number of other sorts, such as 

 " Georgia," " Russell," and " Halbert," at his place. 



Letter of S. H. James, January 22, 1909. 



