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for the purpose of working- on either nursery stock or old 

 trees. Well developed, stocky buds and twig's of the previ- 

 ous season's growth, from strong bearing trees should always 

 be sought. It has been demonstrated often that buds from 

 bearing trees come into bearing sooner than buds from young 

 trees not yet bearing, and one should be absolutely sure that 

 the buds and grafts used, come from trees which are known 

 to bear desirable nuts. Undeveloped buds, as well as long- 

 jointed soft wood grafts, should always be avoided, for they 

 lack development as well as maturity, and cannot be depended 

 upon. 



THE ORCHARD. 



In planning and planting a pecan orchard, the distance 

 between trees demands first attention, While many groves 

 are set very irregularly, the advantages of regular setting are 

 numerous. The common distance is probably forty to fiffy 

 feet each way, but considering the size to which the pecan 

 grows, it would seem that a greater distance, say sixty to 

 one hundred feet, would answer the purpose better. At 

 seventy feet, the number of trees per acre would be eight; at 

 eighty feet, six; at ninety feet, five, and at one hundred feet, 

 four. It wold not be advisable to plant them close enough 

 to interfere, and seventy feet would, no doubt, be close 

 enough for most varieties. 



Those varieties of a spreading habit of growth, of course, 

 would demand the most room. To illustrate the difference 

 in growth between varieties, one has only to glance at figure 

 VIII, which gives a yonng Frotscher pecan, and figure IX, 



