The increase in correspondence relative to ' 'Pecans" and 

 **Pecan Culture," during the past season, has been very great. 

 Information has been sought as to the best localities for 

 growing this nut; soils best adapted to it;; fertilizers most 

 desirable; whether seedlings or grafted trees were best; what 

 Tarieties most desirable; time of bearing profitable crops, and 

 the ultimate profits from a. pecan orchard. 



Some of these questions can be readily answered. Others 

 can be discussed, pending full replies to the experiments al- 

 ready being made in various parts of the South. %$- -<i 



In response to this large demand for information this 

 bulletin has been prepared. 



LOCALITIES OF GROWTH. 



The pecan has a somewhat extensive range of natural 

 growth. It succeeds as a forest tree over a section extending 

 throughout the alluvial portion of the lower Mississippi Val- 

 ley, up the Missouri nearly to Kansas City, a portion of the 

 Ohio Valley, and into western Indiana. It i* also found 

 through Southeastern Texas and Noitheastern Mexico. It is 

 at home in the alluvial soils of the Mississippi, but is fre- 

 quently found on the higher soils, and with proper care in 

 the setting and early attention, its growth may be extended 

 over a large portion of the lighter soils. It prefers a moist 

 subsoil, and the lands which were subject to overflow in years 

 gone by, seem to have been its natural home. While it grows 

 much less rapidly on lighter soils, a selection of a site which- 

 includes the bottom lands in the sandier sections of the State,, 

 will prove more encouraging to their growth and produc- 

 tiveness. The northern limit of its growth is marked by 

 yery large trees, bearing smaller nuts with a hard shell, and 

 it is recorded that some trees in Southwestern Indiana meas- 

 ure seventy-five feet to the first limb. While they grow to be 



