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grafting these as cions on an ordinarj^ pecan 

 stock, to produce new trees in indefinite numbers, 

 all of which retain the precise quality of the 

 parent. 



Such grafts were made in the case of each of 

 a score or so of the famous individual pecans 

 above referred to, with the result that as many 

 varieties have been given assured permanency. 

 For the most part, these varieties have been 

 named after the location where the parent tree 

 grew, as the San Saba, the Rome; or else after 

 the original owner or an early cultivator, as the 

 Jewett, the Pabst, the Post, the Russell, the 

 Stuart. 



According to a recent report of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, there are ten of these 

 varieties that have now been advertised and 

 propagated for a sufficient time to gain wide 

 distribution. 



Extensive orchards of pecans are now under 

 cultivation in almost all of the Southern States; 

 yet the industry is so recent that, with a single 

 exception, the parent trees of all the ten promi- 

 nent varieties are still alive and in a more or less 

 vigorous condition of bearing. 



Unfortunately the pecan is restricted as to 

 habitat, but it flourishes as far north as St. Louis 

 in the Mississippi Valley, in all the Gulf States,* 



