ON NUT GROWING 



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 of an early cultivator, as the Jewett, the 

 Pabst, the Post, the Russell, the Stuart. 



According to a recent report of the Department 

 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 hab- 

 itat, but it flourishes as far north as St. Louis in 

 the Mississippi Valley, in all the gulf states, includ- 

 ing Texas, and along the south Atlantic seaboard. 

 Texas is the chief producer (5,832,367 pounds in 

 1909), Oklahoma second (894,172 pounds), and 

 Louisiana third (723,578 pounds). Quite possibly 

 hardier varieties, which may be grown farther 

 north, may in time be developed. 



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