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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
A Goox> New Hickorynttt. —Pecan 
culture is getting a substantial boom, 
and has its own literature and a Na¬ 
tional society with annual conventions. 
Choice varieties are being extensively 
propagated and planted. The chances of 
ultimate profit in growing this popular 
nut would appear quite promising where 
plantings are made on the right soil in 
a suitable climate. At this stage of Ihe 
industry the returns come chiefly to the 
nurseries engaged in propagating the 
trees. The pecan is, however, a south¬ 
ern species, and is not successfully 
grown in the East north of the Ohio Val¬ 
ley. The trees are fairly hardy even in 
the latitude of Long Island, but a long¬ 
er season is needed to ripen the nuts. 
There is an old tree in Lancaster Co., 
Penn., that is quite productive, but the 
nuts are small and thick-shelled, though 
of tolerable quality. Pecans are most 
at home in rich alluvial soils in the 
Gulf States. Great progress has been 
made in the commercial propagation of 
pecans. Budded and grafted trees of the 
best varieties are now offered by reliable 
nurseries at $1 to $2 each, which does 
not seem unreasonable for trees likely 
to live 100 years or more, and to bear 
profitable crops in seven to 10 years af¬ 
ter planting. 
Hickories for the Nokth. —While we 
of the North cannot hope to fruit pe¬ 
cans, we have in our Shagbark hickory 
a nut far superior in flavor to the best 
pecan, and a tree entirely suitable to 
our climate. The obstacles to hickory 
culture are the slowness of development 
of the young trees and the great uncer¬ 
tainty in the propagation of given varie¬ 
ties. Many excellent shagbarks have 
been described, but up to this time only 
one, Hales Paper Shell, is known to be 
propagated and disseminated. Hales is 
a medium-sized nut with a shell thinner 
than some pecans, but with a very 
plump kernel of high, sweet quality. The 
Hales was described and illustrated in 
The R. N.-Y. as far back as November 
19, 1870. These cuts are reproduced 
above on this page. The original tree 
stands near Ridgewood, N. J., and is 
supposed to be more than a century old. 
Quite a number of trees of this choice 
variety have been planted, some of 
which are in bearing. 
The Wiker Shagbark. —Fig. 120, page 
279, represents the Wiker hickory as ex¬ 
hibited by Dr. J. G. Rush, West Willow. 
Pa., at the last meeting of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Horticultural Sooiety. It is reli¬ 
able and productive in the original tree, 
and is now being propagated in a 
Florida , nursery. Trees of this promis¬ 
ing variety and of the Kirtland, which 
we do not know, will doubtless be of- 
* fered next year. The cut shows the 
nuts in natural size. It is not a “paper 
shell” sort, though the shell is thin 
enough easily to crack away from the 
plump and meaty kernel. The quality 
is excellent, not surpassed by any hick¬ 
ory we have tested. This variety and 
Hales should meet with appreciation 
among nut growers. Planters will have 
a long wait for their crop, but a desir¬ 
able nut tree that may last a century is 
surely worth waiting for. A few experts 
only have been able to increase hick¬ 
ories by grafting. Better success is re¬ 
ported from budding by the annular or 
flute-bud method. They may also be 
propagated, when on their own roots, by 
sprouts or suckers that occasionally 
spring from bared or upturned roots. 
These fine hickory varieties should be 
well cared for lest they become extinct. 
The Pecan and the Hickory. —The 
pecan, Hicoria Pecan, and the shagbark, 
H. ovata, meet in the Mississippi Valley 
as the latter extends its range from 
Canada quite to Texas and Florida. It 
would appear possible that hybrids be¬ 
tween these valuable species may be 
produced in time, and it is easy to im¬ 
agine the good qualities they should 
possess. A supposed hybrid between the 
western shellbark, H. lacinosa, and the 
pecan was figured and described by the 
late A. S. Fuller in 1884 under the name 
of Nussbaumer’s Hybrid. This variety 
does not appear to have been propa¬ 
gated, and the seedlings so far have not 
reproduced the original type. Even the 
location of the original tree seems to 
have been lost. The nuts were describ¬ 
ed as large, thin-shelled, sweet and good. 
The western shellbark at its best does 
not reach the exquisite quality of the 
shagbark, and best hopes would be had 
from breeding the latter. 
Even the Pignut. —There are so many 
species of hickory bearing inedible nuts 
or those of low quality that one feels 
doubtful about a named variety of the 
pignut, the Brackett, found in Iowa. The 
Brackett is said to be large, with a 
plump, sweet kernel of delicate and ac¬ 
ceptable quality. We have not learned 
that it is propagated. The pignut, H. 
glabra, is usually very astringent, some¬ 
times bitter, but varieties having a tol¬ 
erable flavor are occasionally found. The 
pignut is quite variable in tree and fruit, 
so it seems quite possible that some¬ 
thing really good may yet turn up. It 
is abundant over the eastern half of the 
United States. 
Frost-Bitten Crocuses. —We are still 
ir. the grip of this particularly savage 
Winter. The temperature, though occa¬ 
sionally forced above the thawing point 
by March sunlight, slides to many de¬ 
grees below the frost line every clear 
night. The strain of these rapid alterna¬ 
tions is telling on vegetation that en¬ 
dured zero weather in the last two 
months with little harmful effect. Crim¬ 
son clover is much injured, while straw¬ 
berries, even where well mulched, have 
never appeared less hopeful. Unpro¬ 
tected plants seem to be largely winter- 
killed. The mortality among roses and 
shrubs of the less hardy species is sure 
to be considerable. Farmers do not feel 
hopeful about their Winter grain, 
though it was partially protected by 
snow from the most severe cold. These 
March freezes are visibly affecting it. 
There is a tolerable number of bloom 
buds still in good condition on most 
peach trees. Iron Mountain and Sum¬ 
mer Snow show the greatest, loss among 
the varieties we have examined. Not¬ 
withstanding the unusual cold we had 
snowdrops in bloom outside February 26, 
and since March 10 have had a continu¬ 
ous show of yellow Crocuses. The snow¬ 
drops came up near the south wall of a 
greenhouse, where there is presumably 
little frost in the ground. The Crocuses, 
however, are unprotected, but bloom 
bravely on, though frozen stiff almost 
every night. Aside from these flowers 
and a slight swelling of lilac and maple 
buds there is no sign of Spring at this 
writing, March 18. w. v. f. 
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