Geography and Commercial hnportance of the Pecan 3 



Native rang-e repre 

 sented by lines from 

 northwest to southeast. 

 Heavy shading- indicates de- 

 g-ree of commercial plantings 

 outside of native range. 



Figure 1. — Showing the range of the pecan. 



been planted and thrive from the Atlantic coast to the western 

 part of Iowa, Oklahoma, and west Texas, from the forty-third 

 parallel on the north to the Gulf on the south. In addition, 

 successful trial plantings have been made in the Pacific states, 

 especially California. 



This area, east of the Rockies, can be divided into four belts, 

 the northern, middle, southern, and western, according to the 

 type of pecan varieties that will thrive therein. P. T. Little- 

 page of Washington, and Meredith Reed of Vincennes, In- 

 diana, worked out the approximate boundaries of the north- 

 ern, middle, and southern belts. They made a careful study 

 of the native pecan trees in their habitat from Indiana through 

 Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, to Alabama and the Gulf 

 coast. They found that the trees on the Gulf coast differed 

 radically from the northern pecan, while those in Missouri, 



