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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