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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
nuts were very fine. Of the four grafts 
that I inserted into the roots, they are 
not very large, but they were some of 
them three or four feet apart, and there 
was only one of those grafts that tried to 
live. A little later, about the first of 
March, I had a seedling pecan that is 
only four or five years of age, and I took 
off grafts just previous to the budding 
out and tried four more of those hickory 
seedlings, and I have not got one to live. 
I would like to ask Professor Hume in 
regard to this budding. It would be dif¬ 
ficult to get limbs low enough. Would 
you saw the tree off or would you head 
the branches back ? 
Prof. Hume—I would prefer to leave 
the stubs of branches and let them come 
out. 
GRAFTING AND BUDDING. 
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Mr. Griffing—When we started in the 
pecan business we tried grafting and we 
got very few to live. After a good deal 
of experimenting we gave up the graft¬ 
ing. In July and August we have found 
out that budding is most successful. 
Year before last I had fully 50 per cent, 
of our buds to grow, and we are very 
much in favor of budding. All the way 
through we find the percentage is very 
much higher. 
Mr. Gaitskill—I have had some expe¬ 
rience with the hickory and had fine suc¬ 
cess with grafting. It was as easily 
done as anything I have ever done. I 
had no trouble at all. 
Mr. Hart—Mr. Adams, the former 
President of this Society, years ago had 
a good many sprouts come up in his 
grove, so he put grafts into them. I 
don’t know whether he did any budding 
or not. The trees are scattered over his 
grove, the result of that grafting. The 
trees when I saw them a few years after 
were full of nuts, and those nuts, accord¬ 
ing to his taste—and he was a very tasty 
man—he considered better than almost 
any he had ever eaten. They seemed to 
be exceedingly fine. They were not very 
large, but twigs were as large as the or¬ 
dinary pecan scions then, and as soon as 
I was allowed to go home from the court 
I took some with me and cleft-grafted 
them into the hickory with great success. 
A year ago in February I took a scion 
from one of them and cleft-grafted it a 
little below the ground. They made a 
growth one of about seven and one 
about eight feet, and had . several 
branches from two to four feet long; 
made a most remarkable growth. It 
seems to me that one of the best ways is 
to cleft-graft below ground. There are 
a number of trees on the Halifax river 
that were grafted on the hickory. They 
grew very successfully. 
Mr. Wiley—I have had some little ex¬ 
perience this spring in grafting both the 
pecan and hickory, and I found that 
wherever I grafted under ground, the 
success is very much better. Very un¬ 
fortunately, this spring I have lost over 
50 per cent, of my grafts on account of 
dry weather. Between the first and 
middle of March they had started to 
grow beautifully, but when this dry 
weather set in I think I have lost over 50 
per cent, of them. I have done very lit¬ 
tle grafting until this year. I would like 
to know if there is any member of the 
Society that has had any experience this 
season in grafting. 
Mr. Gaitskill—My grafting this year 
was usually under ground, and my suc¬ 
cess was very poor. I don’t claim that 
this result is conclusive. I have laid a 
