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490 YEAJBJEJOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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Mr'.'J'ames named the variety " Carman " in 1898, a in honor of the 

 late E. S. Carman, editor of the Eural New Yorker, and has spar- 

 ingly propagated and disseminated the variety since that time. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form very long, slender, and cylindrical, with rather smooth base 

 and prominent quadrangular apex, sometimes distinctly curved ; sur- 

 face generally smooth, though distinctly ridged in some specimens; 

 size large, 55 to GO nuts per pound ; color bright brownish, with few 

 and narrow purplish stripes toward apex ; shell medium, in thickness 

 but soft, with very soft partitions, cracking easily ; kernel very long, 

 slender, and smooth, not always filled at tips, but very smooth and 

 attractive when plump ; color bright golden ; texture moderately fine 

 grained and firm; flavor sweet, rich; quality good to very good. 

 This is a dessert pecan for cracking at table, rather than for com- 

 mercial crackers or the confectioner. 



Tree a fairly strong grower ; young wood rather stout, light grayish 

 green, with rather numerous, inconspicuous, light brown dots. Buds, 

 small, long, pointed. 



No exact record of yield of the tree has been kept, but the original 

 tree is considered fairly productive, the crop ripening about October 

 10. It is suggested for trial in the lower Mississippi Valley. 



The specimens illustrated on Plate XLIX were grown by Mr. 

 S. H. James, Mound, La. 



a S. H. James, in Rural New Yorker, January 8, 1898, p. 19. 



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