4 Pecan-Growing 



Arkansas, and Tennessee differed somewhat from both. The 

 material difference in all three cases was in the length of the 

 growing period, the Gulf coast trees requiring from 270 to 

 290 days to mature their fruit and the northern pecans from 

 170 to 190, while the middle belt needed from 180 to 200 days. 

 Consequently, only those regions having a growing season of 

 270 to 290 days are adaptable to the Gulf coast varieties such 

 as the Schley, Stuart, Delmas, and Frotscher. Those sections 

 with a growing season of 180 to 200 days are suited to the 

 Evansville group, such as Major, Greenriver, Kentuck;^", and 

 Warrick. Those localities that have a growing season of 170 

 to 190 days are adapted to the northern pecans, such as the 

 Posey, Butterick, Indiana, Busseron, and Niblack. 



The approximate northern limits for the southern belt run 

 from Wilmington, North Carolina, westerly about fifty miles 

 north of Augusta and through Atlanta, Georgia and Birming- 

 ham, Alabama, bearing on southwest almost to Jackson, 

 Mississippi, thence northward, crossing the Mississippi in the 

 vicinity of the twenty-fourth parallel, continuing on through 

 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and McAlester, Oklahoma. The depth 

 of this area is about one hundred miles on the eastern side, but 

 gradually increases until a distance of from three to four 

 hundred miles from the coast is reached in Arkansas, Okla- 

 homa, and central Texas. 



With the exception of a few orchards in western Texas, all 

 of the large commercial plantings have been confined to the 

 southern belt. A number of these orchards contain from 2,000 

 to 5,000 acres. The states ranked according to the number of 

 orchards planted to improved varieties are Georgia, Florida, 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, and 

 Oklahoma. The position of the states, according to the num- 



