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central Mississippi and Alabama. Most 

 of the nnts in the market come from 

 Texas, but of late years orchards of se- 

 lected varieties of the pecan nut have 

 been planted in many of the Southern 

 States.* It is one of the most impos- 



Pecan nut in 



ing and beautiful trees of the South. husk. 



* Vide Silva of North America, C. S. Sargent. 



