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growth, they have never borne any 
amount of nuts. 
Mr. Henderson : I was down in- 
-i, where they have very good 
hammock land. A gentleman there show¬ 
ed me about 35 trees that were budded 
on this pignut. The trees were about 12 
inches in diameter and had tops large 
enough to carry a barrel of nuts to the 
tree. He told me he had never seen a nut 
on them. They were the Van Deman 
and the Stuart varieties. 
Mr. Smithwick: I have here in my 
hand a photograph of a hickory tree that 
was sixty feet high when I topped it. I 
grafted a great many different varieties 
of pecans into it and they are all growing. 
I call it my experiment for varieties. I 
have fourteen varieties in the top of that 
tree and the most of them: are carrying 
fruit the second year from budding. 
I would like to ask the gentleman from 
Gainesville if the trees around that sec¬ 
tion budded on the hickory, have matur¬ 
ed any fruit yet? 
Mr. Henderson: Not a very abundant 
crop. Mr. Moseley was budding trees 
twelve years ago and they bore some nuts 
every year, but never anything like a full 
crop. He budded trees twelve years ago 
that were twelve inches in diameter. 
Md*. Williams: This pignut hickory is 
a little different from the regular hickory. 
The pignut is a more willowy growth and 
grows along the edge of swamp land. I 
have tried to destroy them, but would like 
to put them to some usefulness, if possi¬ 
ble. 
Prof. Hume: I have seen many hicko¬ 
ries and some of considerable size with 
both top work and grafts, but I have nev¬ 
er eaten the nuts. Some of them are good 
trees now, but whether they will produce 
any nuts or not, I do not know: Howev¬ 
er, there is no reason under the sun why, 
if the graft takes and makes a growth, it 
should not bear a crop. 
Mr. Henderson: I think the ones 
around Gainesville are beechnut hicko¬ 
ries. What they have produced so fapis 
a small bitter nut of no value at all. 
Mr. Miller: It will not do to judge a 
tree too soon. The pecan grafted on the 
hickory may take a longer time to come 
into bearing. We have so much better 
stocks as a rule, it is better to use the 
pecan for grafting on except where you 
have other trees growing naturally and 
want to convert them to a profitable pur¬ 
pose. 
