PECAN 



PECTINARIA 



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nut, rather widely disseminated for several years as Post's Select. 

 Mainly planted in central Texas. 



Indiana. Knox County, Indiana. Of medium size, with thin 

 shell and kernel of excellent quality. Promising for northern 

 planting. 



Jewett. Pascagoula, Mississippi. Widely disseminated at one 

 time, but generally discarded because of unproductiveness and 

 unthriftiness of tree and unsatisfactory filling of the large long nut. 



Kincaid. San Saba, Texas. A large, oblong nut, with moder- 

 ately thin shell and plump kernel of fine quality. Scabs badly in 

 South Atlantic States. 



Major. Henderson County, Kentucky. Recently introduced, 

 but considered promising in northern pecan territory. Of only 

 medium size but thin-shelled, with plump kernel of fine quality. 



Mobile (syns., Laurendine, Batey's Perfection). Bayou La 

 Batre, Alabama. A very large and handsome nut, coming into 

 bearing early but not filling well in most sections where tested, and 

 therefore little planted in recent years. 



2834. Varieties of the pecan: 1, San Saba; 2, Teche; 3, Stuart; 

 4, Van Deman; 5, Centennial; 6, Schley; 7, Delmas. ( X %) 



Moneymaker (Fig. 2833). Mound, Louisiana. A medium-sized, 

 rather thin-shelled nut of excellent cracking and fair dessert quality. 

 A precocious, productive sort. One of the hardiest of the southern 

 varieties. 



Niblack. Knox County, Indiana. Recently introduced. Below 

 medium in size, but its excellent cracking and fine dessert qualities 

 make it promising for the North. 



Pabst. Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A large, rather thick-shelled 

 sort with a very plump and attractive kernel of excellent quality. 



Post (syn., Post's Select). Milburn, Texas. Nuts and seedling 

 trees were widely disseminated for several years under this name, 

 at first from a tree on the Colorado River bottom near Milburn, 

 Texas, later from other trees nearby, and still later from the 

 Hollis tree in the same county. The nut of the original Post tree 

 is of medium size and very attractive appearance and thousands of 

 seedlings from it have been planted throughout the South, but 

 neither the variety nor its seedlings are now propagated. 



Rome (syns., Columbia, Columbian, Century, Twentieth Cen- 

 tury, Pride of the Coast, Southern Giant) (Fig. 2833). Convent, 

 Louisiana. One of the largest varieties and for several years the 

 most widely exploited, but now practically discarded by planters. 

 Shell thick and kernel frequently defective. 



Russell (Fig. 2833). Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A rnedium- 

 sized conical nut with very thin shell. Quality excellent when well 

 filled but often faulty. Tree slender and tender but very produc- 

 tive along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. 



Son Saba (syns., Papershell, Risien's Papershell, Royal) (Fig. 

 2834). Though small, its thinness of shell, plumpness and sweet- 

 ness of kernel make it a highly desirable nut where it succeeds. 

 Tree a vigorous, though slender grower; very productive; scabs 

 badly in eastern districts. 



Schley (syn., Admiral Schley) (Fig. 2834). Pascagoula, Missis- 

 sippi. One of the most widely successful commercial sorts. Nut 

 generally large, with thin shell and plump kernel of excellent quality. 

 Tree pendulous in habit but vigorous and productive. 



Sovereign (syn., Texas Prolific). San Saba, Texas. Seedling of 

 San Saba, larger than the parent, with somewhat thicker shell. 

 Very productive in Texas but susceptible to scab in eastern dis- 

 tricts. 



Stuart (syn., Castanera) (Fig. 2834). Widely planted and 

 generally productive. Nut large, filling well but rather difficult to 

 crack and, therefore, less planted as a commercial nut than formerly. 



Success (Fig. 2833). Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A large nut 

 with a relatively thin shell and plump kernel. 



Teche (syns., Frotscher No. 2, Duplicate Frotscher, Fake 

 Frotscher, Spurious Frotscher) (Fig. 2834). Probably a seedling 

 of Frotscher, mixed with that variety in nursery and disseminated 

 as Frotscher. Rather small and not of high quality, but very pro- 

 ductive throughout the southeastern states. 



Van Deman (syns., Mire, Duminie Mire, Paragon, Bourgeois) 

 (Fig. 2834). A large to very large nut, cracking well, with plump 

 kernel of high quality. Widely planted in lower Mississippi Valley 

 and Gulf Coast sections. Subject to scab farther east. 



Hybrids. Numerous hybrids of C. Pecan with C. laciniosa and 

 C. aquatica are known and some have been named and propagated 

 in a small way. Of these the McCattister (syn., Floyd), found near 

 Mt. Vernon, Indiana, is a very large nut, probably the largest 

 known hickory-nut. The original tree has for many years failed to 

 mature more than a small proportion of plump kernels and top- 

 grafted trees of the variety have exhibited the same weakness, so 

 that it cannot be regarded as of commercial value. 



Literature. 



Books and bulletins have been published on nut- and 

 pecan-culture and varieties. Some of the works are: 

 "Nut Culture in the United States," Division of 

 Pomology, 1896; "The Nut Culturist," A. S. Fuller, 

 1896; "Nuts for Profit," John R. Parry, 1897; "Pecan 

 Culture for Western Texas," E. E. Risien, 1904; "The 

 Pecan and Its Culture," H. Harold Hume, 1906: 

 "Pecans," J. B. Wight, 1906. Detailed historical 

 accounts and descriptions of forty of the best known 

 varieties, with colored plates, occur in Department of 

 Agriculture Yearbooks for the years 1904-1909 and 

 1912. 



The following bulletins on the pecan have been 

 issued: Florida Experiment Station Bulletins Nos. 54, 

 57, 85; Texas Experiment Station Bulletin No. 69; 

 North Carolina Department of Agriculture Bulletins 

 Nos. 30, 156, 224; Georgia State College of Agricul- 

 ture Bulletin No. 82; Georgia Experiment Station 

 Bulletin No. 116; Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletins 

 Nos. 30, 251; Farmers' Bulletin No. 700. 



WM. A. TAYLOR. 



PECTINARIA (comb-like). Asdepiadacex. The genus 

 as described by Haworth, not of other authors, com- 

 prises succulent leafless herbs: sts. tufted, usually pro- 

 cumbent, acutely, obtusely or obscurely 4-8-angled: 

 fls. small, solitary or in fascicles in the grooves or on 

 the sides between the angles; calyx 5-parted; corolla 

 small, budlike, with a short cup-shaped hemispheric 

 or broad and shallow tube and 5 lobes connate at 

 the apex; corona double, outer cuplike and variably 

 cut into 10 to numerous teeth or of 5 minute lobes, 

 inner of 5 lobes incumbent upon the backs of the 

 anthers or erect and about equaling or longer than them 

 and connivent-erect over them; filaments of the sta- 

 mens connate, forming a tube around the ovary and 

 adnate to the dilated top of the style: follicles narrowly 

 fusiform, glabrous. Five species, all S. African. The 

 following species have been intro. at Kew: P. sax- 

 dtilis, N. E. Br. Sts. acutely 4-angled, with flat or 

 slightly concave sides and distant acute deltoid teeth 

 along the angles: corolla broadly ovoid or subglobose, 

 covered with fine hairs on the inner surface, blackish 

 purple or purple-brown. P. asperifolia, N. E. Br. Sts. 

 cylindric, with 6-8 series of closely placed tubercles: 

 corolla papillate outside and within also pentagonally 

 subglobose, with the papillae on the inner surface 



