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Planning the Orchard.— There are two ways to make 

 a pecaa orchard. One is to depend on seedlings. If 

 really choice nuts are planted there is a reasonable 

 prospect of securing trees bearing somewhat similar 

 nuts, and many follow this plan. The other is to de- 

 pend on budded or grafted trees instead of seedlings. 



There is also a division of opinion as to the advisa- 

 bility of planting the nuts where the trees are to stand 

 and "rearing them for a year or more in a nursery. Both 

 ways are good, but each has its advantages. If the 

 formerof these plans is followed, then twoor three nuts 

 should be planted where each tree is to stand and a 

 cedar or cypress stake driven at the spot. Pine stakes 

 are said to induce worms to attack the little pecan trees. 

 A still safer plan is to enclose the little seedlings in 

 narrow boxes about afoot high, made of cypress boards. 

 This secures them from the depredations of rabbits, 

 which sometimes prove very destructive. By this plan 

 there is no labor or danger of loss bv transplanting. 

 All but one of the trees sliould he ri'moVed after two or 

 three years' L^rowili. If tli-' inir-ir'\ ih-'IImhI is followed, 



ProptK/"''""- ''r.iiii,! .,!■ i.ihl.;. .! ly... ;in- far pref- 

 erable to srr.llniL--. li.r:,,.-,. ■•( Hl r. • r I ;, | | , I V „f the Va- . 



the advantage of having an even and high grade to sell. 

 The same difficulty is met with as in case of the chest- 



NUTTALLIA 



should be not less than 50 feet between trees, because* 

 they get to be very large. It might be well to put them 

 half that distance and cut out half when crowding be- 

 gins. Thorough tillage will pay abundantly and should 

 never be neglected while the trees are young. Farm 

 crops, such as corn, cotton and potatoes, may be grown 

 between the trees until they begin bearing, which is 

 from 10 to 15 years from planting. Then the ground 

 may be seeded to grass See Hicofia and Pecan 



The CocOiNUT (Fig 1497) — Whete Groun m Amer 

 ua —There is (ompiratnt i\ litth tiintii\ no the con- 

 tinent of North Aram .»li I 1 ill grow, 

 MZ , a small poition i t I I 1 1 I i coast 

 regions of Mexico In tl w lifornia 



thi \ t * I I " 1 I raanj 



Origin of 

 cGcoanut tn 

 lings which 



nut — the trouble and expense of securing grafted or 

 budded trees. However, it has been found that both 

 these methods of propagation are reasonably successful 

 In skilful hands. Eitherthe cleft-, tongue- or bark-graft 

 will succeed, but all styles do better on small stocks 

 just below the surface of the soil than above. Ring- and 

 plate-budding are much more successful than the shield 

 method. They have been profitably used in nurseries of 

 young seedlings and on sprouts on large trees. 



Planting and Ciiltivation. -The distance for planting 



the wrecking of tbi ^| 



Like ^\oith 11 



s grew so 



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 have in]ur( i 

 Killing then 



s and occasional frosts 



iiiut trees, in some cases 



I 111 lal, the trees bear good 



nnrs in rf ts n tl 1 j i u iii 1 ut in a business way the 



I t I 1I1KCU.UU, owing to d.inger from frosts and 



I ss of imported nuts As an interesting 



1 1 ocoanut m southern Florida is an eminent 



^1 p rocos 



IhcK -ire three Aim in in i iilili itions devoted to 

 imts "Nut Culture 111 tl I i it 1 ^t it, s 18%, being a 

 Imlletin of the Division II m 1 _\ t s Dept Agnc , 

 I iiller "The Nut (ultiiiist Isii I'.iir^, "Nuts for 

 I'n.ht lb07 H E VanDemas 



NUT-GRASS. Mentioned under Ci/periis. 



NUTMEG. Treated under Myrislica. 



NUTTALLIA (Thomas Nuttall, professor of natural 

 history at Philadelphia; author of "The Genera of North 

 American Plants" [1818], "The North Aiii.ri,-a.i Svlvi," 

 [1842], etc.). Bos&cem. A genu- of j ~,„ , i, ~ ,,f ,i..i tli- 

 western American plants, one of h I.i. ti i- iIh i i~c. Ii. irv. 

 JV. cerasifonnis. This is a slinil. i.-lJ ft, lii-h. wii'h 

 white, 5-petaled fls. It is one of the- c;aiii st shruhs to 

 bloom in spring. It is rarely cult, in the East and of 

 doubtful hardiness, but is esteemed in England, where 

 it is compared to a flowering currant. Botanically, how- 

 ever, it is nearer Prunus than Rubus. Generic charac- 

 ters are: fls. polygamo-dioecious: calj-x between top- 

 shaped and bell-shaped, deciduous; petals broadly 

 spatulate; stamens 15, in 2 rows, 10 in.serted with the 

 petals and 5 lower down on the disk lining the tube; 

 filaments very short; carpels 5: drupes 2-4, oblong. 



ceraBifArmis. Torr. & Gray. Oso Berrt. Shrub or 

 small tree, 2-15 ft. high: Ivs. broadly lanceolate; petiole 

 2-1 in. long: racemes shorter than the Ivs.: fls. H-1 in. 

 across: fr. blue-black, 6-8 lines long; flesh bitter; stone 

 somewhat compressed. Moist places, Calif. Gn. 34, p. 

 78. G.C. II. 19:309; III. 19:489.-Said to "exhale a 



