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publications have been freely drawn on, and assistance has 

 been received from a miniber of teachers and investigators. 



Dr. B. W. Hunt, of Eatonton, Georgia, in addition to supply- 

 ing much of the historical data, has been an inspiration in the 

 preparation of the entire volume. Dr. J. J. Skinner, Bio- 

 chemist, Soil Fertility Investigations, Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, United States Department of Agriculture; Dr. T. H. 

 McHatton, Horticulturist, State College of Agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of Georgia ; Dr. S. W. Bilsing, Professor of Entomol- 

 ogy; Dr. G. S. Fraps, State Chemist, Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of Texas, and Prof. W. F. Turner, Assistant 

 Georgia State Entomologist, gave helpful suggestions in the 

 preparation of the manuscript. 



In literature the terms ^^ pecan groves" and '^ pecan 

 orchards" are used more or less synonymously or at least in- 

 terchangeably. This is probably due to the fact that when 

 pecan nuts began to receive attention in the native forests, the 

 underbrush and other species of trees were cleared away just 

 before harvest time so as to facilitate the work of gathering 

 the nuts. Such groups of pecan trees were very properly 

 spoken of as groves. 



H. E. Van Deman, at the third annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers Association in 1904, made the distinc- 

 tion between ^^ pecan groves" and '^ pecan orchards" by des- 

 ignating those trees set in their natural position by nature as 

 ''groves" and those planted in definite form, by man, as 

 ''orchards." In other words, nature plants groves and man 

 sets orchards. The term ''grove," however, has followed the 

 pecan industry, and today is frequently used interchange- 

 ably with "orchard" even when applied to plantings made in 

 definite form by man. 



