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ing the kernel easily and completely; kernel bright, very plump, 

 deeply grooved; texture firm, oily; flavor sweet; quality very good. 



The tree is described as of willowy growth, with slender, long- 

 jointed wood. It is reported to be a very heavy bloomer, with fruit- 

 ing clusters of 3 to 5 nuts, with sometimes as many as 8. Mr. Halbert 

 reports that it has borne 22 crops during the twenty-three years he 

 has had the tree under observation. 



The specimens illustrated in Plate XXXVI were grown by Mr. 

 H. A. Halbert, Coleman, Tex. 



MOBILE PECAN. 

 SYNONYMS: Laurendine, Batey's Perfection. 



The Mobile pecan appears to have originated as a seedling from 

 a planted nut at Bayou Labatre, Ala., about 1887. Though early 

 attaining a high reputation locally, it does not appear to have 

 attracted attention elsewhere nor to have been propagated by bud- 

 ding and grafting until about 1900, a when it was propagated by 

 F. H. Lewis and I. P. Delmas, of Scranton, Miss. About 1904-5 it 

 was propagated by Mr. John B. Davis, of Mobile, Ala., and B. W. 

 Stone & Co., of Thomasville, Ga. The variety was catalogued and 

 disseminated as the Mobile by the Stone Nursery in 1904-5, though 

 it had been locally known at Bayou Labatre under the name 

 Laurendine for some years. Later it was somewhat disseminated 

 by Mr. C. C. Batey as Batey's Perfection, under which name it is 

 found in a number of orchards in Georgia. The original tree is 

 reported to be a heavy bearer of large nuts, one crop having attained 

 a total of 400 pounds. For several years past the crop on the orig- 

 inal tree has shown a large proportion of faulty kernels. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form long, cylindrical, four-angled, sometimes constricted at the 

 middle and obovate; base pointed, apex conspicuously four-angled, 

 surface often lumpy; large, 55 to 65 nuts to the pound; color bright 

 yellowish brown with narrow purplish black markings toward apex; 

 shell very thin, with thin and soft partitions, cracking easily and 

 releasing kernel readily; kernel long, slender, broadly and deeply 

 grooved, considerably corrugated, and not always plump at the tip; 

 texture rather coarse; flavor sweet; quality good. 



The specimens illustrated in Plate XXXVI were grown by Mr. 

 F. H. Lewis, Scranton, Miss. 



DAISY PECAN. 



The Daisy pecan was originated about 1881 6 by Mr. F. R.Wagen- 

 fuehr, of New Braunfels, Tex., as one of 20 seedlings grown by him 



Letter from Mr. F. H. Lewis, February 17, 1910. 

 6 Letter from Mr. Otto Locke, February 18, 1910. 



