30 Pecan-Growing 



was a large native seedling tree in Bnsseron township,, Knox 

 County, Indiana, and was brought to notice by M. J. Niblack 

 of Vincennes. 



Among the long list of varieties originating from nuts 

 planted by man may be mentioned such well known sorts as 

 Alley, Appomattox, Curtis, Delmas, Frotscher, Mantura, Mo- 

 bile, Moneymaker, Pabst, Russell, Success, Schley, Stuart, Van 

 Deman, and Texas Prolific. 



At the present time large numbers of young pecan trees 

 resulting from various crosses of the better know^n varieties 

 are grown in several sections adapted to their culture. How- 

 ever, only a few have yet been produced from cross-breeding 

 as compared with the numbers from nuts planted where only 

 one, and sometimes neither, of the parent trees are known. 



E. E. Eisien of San Saba, Texas, crossed the San Saba with 

 the Sloan and secured fifteen nuts from the cross. He planted 

 these nuts and used buds from the resultant seedlings for top- 

 w^orking some rather large pecan trees so as to secure fruit as 

 early as possible. He found very great variations in both 

 fruit and foliage of these crosses and considered only one of 

 them worthy of propagation. From the results he concluded 

 that the male plant in a pecan cross is dominant. Later Risien 

 crossed the San Saba with the Atwater as the male parent and 

 produced a variety which he named Venus. From the Texas 

 Prolific crossed with the Atwater as the male parent he se- 

 cured the Banquet variety. These experiments were followed 

 by several other crosses from which developed a number of 

 important varieties. 



In 1903 C. Forkert of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, crossed 

 the Jewet with both the Pabst and the Success. He obtained 

 better nuts from his crosses between the Success and the 



