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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
years. These private experiments of Doctor Morris are 
bound to bring results of great value to the country at large. 
Doctor Morris, although an exceedingly busy man profes¬ 
sionally, has accepted the presidency of the Northern Nut 
Growers’ Association. The society has also been fortunate 
in securing the active assistance of Dr. W. C. Doming, of 
Westchester, New York, another physician who, for a num¬ 
ber of years, has been keenly interested in the food problems 
of the country, as affected by our native and introduced nut 
products. Doctor Doming is secretary of this society. 
The next meeting of the Association will be held at the 
New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, Dec. 14 and 
15. At this meeting, the samples of native nuts for which 
Doctor Morris has offered prizes, will be examined and the 
prizes awarded. A considerable number of thin shelled 
hickories, hardy Persian walnuts, and improved forms of 
black walnuts and butternuts have been already received. 
These will form an exceedingly interesting and valuable col¬ 
lection. This competition is open to all persons, and there is 
no entry fee. Those who have on their farms or in their 
vicinity especially good types of native nuts should select 
twelve specimens and send them to the Department of 
Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., with a 
description of the tree and notes on its history. All these 
samples will receive careful attention. Worthy ones will be 
recommended for propagation. 
Membership in this Northern Nut Growers’ Association 
is open to all persons interested in horticulture in general, 
and nut culture in particular. Secretary Deming would be 
glad to^receive applications. An attractive program has 
been provided for the forthcoming meeting, which, it is 
expected, will bring together a considerable body of the lead¬ 
ing nut growers throughout the Northeast. 
FRUIT PLANTINGS IN WASHINGTON 
Seven counties in eastern Washington have under cultivation 
6,930,389 apple, 1,251,735 peach, 743,963 pear, 207,018 cherry, 182,931 
prune and plum and 94,873 apricot trees, according to reports compiled 
by F. A. Huntley, state commissioner of horticulture. Walla Walla, 
Stevens and Benton counties, in which the count is not yet completed, 
it is estimated, will bring the number of apple trees to fully 10,000,000, 
a full crop from which would mean about 70,000,000 boxes or more than 
the total apple production in the United States in 1910. 
Commissioner Huntley reports this acreage: Apples, 126,116; 
peaches, 11,590; pears, 6,888; cherries, 1,916; prunes and plums, 
1 ,693; apricots, 878. The number of trees in the seven counties follows: 
Yakima county, four years and older,’ apples, 642,032; pears, 
247,222; peaches, 416,729; apricots, 6,087; plums and prunes, 18,383; 
cherries, 16,644. Three years and younger, apples, 1,241,739; pears, 
310,506; peaches, 226,065; apricots, 16,632; plums and prunes, 27,262; 
cherries, 13,989. 
Spokane county, four years and older, apples, 595,076; pears, 
27.333: peaches, 32,500; plums and prunes, 48,373; cherries, 46,304 
Three years and younger, apples, 1,299,805; pears, 6,902; peaches- 
6,704; plums and prunes, 942; cherries, 9,834. 
Chelan county, four years and older trees, apples, 578,388; pears, 
42,744; peaches, 122,969; apricots, 20,172; plums and prunes, 10,570; 
cherries, 30,134. Three years old and younger trees, apples, 1,243,193; 
pears, 50,622; peaches, 52,022; apricots, 20,569; plums and prunes, 
4,951; cherries, 14,188. 
Okanogan coimty, four years and older, apples, 158,667; pears, 
3.675; peaches, 6,753; apricots, 1,450; plums and prunes, 5,285; 
cherries, 2,800. Three years and younger, apples, 689,868; pears. 
12,480; peaches, 38,300; apricots, 10,413; plums and prunes, 6,486; 
cherries, 11,457. 
Asotin county, four years and older trees, apples, 38,272; pears, 
1,750; peaches, 129,742; apricots, 2,2.79; plums and prunes, 3,493; 
cherries, 39,200. Three years old apples and younger, 85,864; pears, 
12,600; peaches, 47,783; apricots, 3,143; plums and prunes, 12,741; 
cherries, 1,229. 
Whitman county, four years and older, apples, 106,750; pears, 
1,145; peaches, 68,750; apricots, 2,880; plums and prunes, 25,550; 
cherries, 5,955. Three years and younger, apples, 19,544; pears, 
7,313; peaches, 25,138; apricots, 3,715; plums and prunes, 14,235; 
cherries, 6,720. 
Douglas county, four years and older trees, apples, 14,862; pears, 
4,902; peaches, 4,056; apricots, 1,046; plums and prunes, 1,041; 
cherries, 2,106. Three years and younger, apples, 222,329; pears, 
14,771; peaches 28,242; apricots, 6,487; plums and prunes, 2,519; 
cherries, 6,458. 
There are numerous large commercial apple orchards in Walla 
Walla, Stevens and Benton counties. One community project in 
Stevens county already has planted more than 350,000 two and three 
years’ old trees and when completed there will be 1,250,000 trees on the 
18,000 acres. 
THE SCHLEY PECAN 
We are in receipt of nuts of this promising variety, sent us by Mr. 
Claude Delmas, of A. G. Delmas’ Sons, Pascagoula, Mississippi. We 
have known and appreciated the value of this nut for some time. It 
has an interesting history. The variety is a seedling of the Stuart, one 
of the best known and most widely planted of all the propagated pecans. 
It appears that Mr. A. G. Delmas, Scranton, Mississippi, secured nuts 
from the original Stuart tree, grown at Pascagoula, and planted them at 
Scranton, Mississippi, in 1881, where the original tree of the Schley 
still stands. Mr. Delmas was always an enthusiast in pecan culture, 
and was instrumental in originating a number of new varieties. This 
variety he always thought the best of all his seedlings. He named it 
Schley in 1898, and began propagating it by topgrafting in 1900. A 
couple of years later, Mr. D. L. Pearson of Monticello, Florida, secured 
scions from the original tree, and introduced it under the name, of 
Admiral Schley. This, of course, was infringing on the originator’s 
privilege and rights. Mr. W. A. Taylor of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture calls attention to this in his description of the variety in the Year¬ 
book for 1905, and relegates Admiral Schley to the position of a synonym 
under the name Schley. This variety is now one of the most widely 
planted of all the better known pecans. 
The nut is of good size, oblong obovate in form, with conical and 
somewhat sharply pointed apex. It is an attractive golden brown in 
color, but the striking feature about the variety is its thinness of shell, 
which enables one to crack them by hand with perfect ease. Not only 
does it crack easily, but the partitions separate very readily from the 
kernel, which is long, slender, and brightly attractive. It is probably 
the easiest cracking of all the pecans. The texture is fine grained, and 
flavor exceptionally sweet and rich. Quality is rated very good. 
Taylor points out that while the thinness of shell and its attractive 
color and fine quality of the nut give it a high place as a dessert pecan, 
the slenderness of the kernel “is objectionable from the confectioner’s 
standpoint.’’ It seems to us that this variety is too fine in quality to be 
sold through the confectioner, and is really a table nut, and should be 
disposed of to the consumer in the shell. 
The reputation of the variety as a bearer is variable. Complaints 
of shy bearing are noted here and there, and variability in size and form 
is also charged against the variety. The tree is a fair, but rather 
slender, grower. The original tree, then twenty-five years of age, bore 
one hundred twenty-five pounds of nuts in 1905. Schley is being 
extensively planted in South Georgia and in North Florida. 
“We are well pleased with the paper and wish to renew for another 
year.’’ 
Canandaigua, N. Y. Bacon Bros. 
