34 Pecan-Growing 



Occasionally the nurseryman fails to obtain a sufficient 

 quantity of desirable seedling pecan nuts for nursery purposes 

 and has to resort to some of the commercial varieties. If he 

 has a choice of several varieties, he should select those which 

 give promise of producing the most uniform and vigorous 

 seedlings for budding or grafting. The nuts from the various 

 kinds, when planted, may be expected to behave differently 

 in separate regions and vary from year to year even in the 

 same locality. Plantings at the Georgia Experiment Station, 

 however, will give the reader some idea as to the relative 

 results from several varieties grown for nursery stock. The 

 nuts were harvested in the fall of 1919 and held in paper bags 

 in an office building, at ordinary living-room temperature, 

 until February, 1920, w^hen they were planted in uniformly 

 good soil, well fertilized and cultivated. Table IV gives a sum- 

 mary of tree growth as recorded June 15th, 1922. 



TABLE IV 



Varieties Grown for Nursery Stock by Georgia Experiment 



Station 



No. nuts 

 Variety planted 



Alley 20 



Appomattox 25 



Atlanta 25 



Beveridge 22 



Bradley 20 



Centennial 15 



Curtis 20 



Frotscher 10 



Jerome 19 



Mantura 20 



Mobile 15 



Moneymaker .... 25 



Nelson 20 



No. 

 grew 



8 



Highest 



plant 



inches 



54 



Lowest 

 plant 

 inches 



8 



Av. 

 height 

 inches 



25 



% above 



diam. 

 G2 



19 



37 



6 



22 



62 



21 



38 



7 



19 



48 



1 



8 



8 



8 







16 



59 



14 



29 



69 



11 



42 



8 



18 



45 



IG 



50 



12 



21 



56 



8 



31 



9 



19 



50 



13 



35 



9 



17 



32 



14 



38 



11 



22 



56 



9 



32 



12 



19 



55 



17 



31 



9 



19 



53 



13 



35 



11 



21 



55 



