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Since a number of years, Pecan Nuts for planting haveb;en sold here, and it was the 

 o^er.eral balief that trees grown fro3i th23i WDuld bear the sains fruit as the parent plant. 

 Experience has taught us since that this is not so. It is a Aell known law in nature that 

 all plants show more or less tendency to hybridize, especially ii another of the same kind 

 is near by as the pollen of one flower is easily transported to another. 



A tree may stand perfectly isolated, perhaps a mile from any another yet hybridization 

 is possible, as Bees, which are after the nectar as well as the pollen will carr\' the latter 

 from one tree to the other. 



Then we must also bear in mind that the tendency of a seedling is not towards an im- 

 provement on. but rather '.owards a kind inferior to the parent tree. 



As it takes from lo to 15 years for seedling Pecans to bear, it is in our opinion a useless 

 experiment to plant Pecan nuts to raise trees from unless for the purpose of growing 



Citrus Trifoliata. 



No Seedling" Pecans sold by us as we do not consider them reliable. 



