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kill some years almost as badly as a weed. Halbert is a very 
fine pecan, its only fault being a Weak growth. Centennial 
is a very large, long pecan, but is slow in coming into bear¬ 
ing. Of the new pecans Dewey, Schley and Taylor stand 
very high, but Success is the most promising of all the 
new varieties. It is running Stuart a close race. 
THE RISIEN METHOD OF HANDLING PECAN 
STOCK. 
E. E. Risien, San Saba, Texas. 
1. The old way showing the work of the tree digger, that 
leaves more roots in the ground than are taken out. With 
the pecan wounded roots heal slowly—so slowly that too often 
they dwindle and die. This feature we have entirely elim¬ 
inated. 
2. As growing in the nursery before pulled up off the 
San Saba river as it passes through the grounds of E. E. Risien, showing native 
growth of pecan. San Saba, Texas. 
It is a large, long pecan, the only very long pecan I ever saw 
that was well filled out, moderate grower, and heavy annual 
bearer,—pecan well suited to meet the fancy trade. 
The James Pecan is one of the finest Louisiana paper- 
shells. It has the characteristic of bearing heavily on the 
off year when pecans are scarce and bring a high price. The 
shell is so thin that when held three feet from the floor and 
allowed to drop, the shell breaks just as an egg would. The 
Cutting up strips of wire cloth to bury Laying wire cloth in trenches 
in the ground for our trees to grow preparatory to planting the 
on. The Risien method. seed nuts for stocks. Process 
patented Oct. 20 , 1903 . 
kernel is very rich and oily. It is a vigorous grower, 
and ripens five w'eeks ahead of Russell, and for the 
latitude of Vicksburg .and North it is a far superior 
nut. 
The Stuart is perhaps the finest all round pecan 
in the list. Its only fault is that it is slow in com¬ 
ing into bearing. On young trees Moneymaker will 
bear ten pounds to Stuarts one. Yet in planting a 
grove I would plant heavily of Stuart. It is large, 
rich flavor, and tree a fine grower. 
Van Deman is a long, large, ^dark pecan of rich 
flavor, which no one will make a mistake in plant¬ 
ing. Its only faults are that it is slow in coming into 
bearing, and is sometimes not well filled out. Georgia 
Giant is too weak a grower ever to amount to 
much in ordinary field culture. Pride of the Coast, 
Twentieth Century, Rome and Columbian (they 
are all the same pecan) are the biggest of all 
pecans, but in order to have them fill out they 
must be planted on very rich soil. They have many 
faults. Pabst is an all round fine pecan, and a safe 
one to plant, its only fault is that it is slow in 
coming into bearing. Russell is a good bearer, 
and has a thin shell; but it ripens its nuts too 
late for the latitude of Vicksburg, and trees winter- 
Another view of the wire mesh system of growing pecan stock 
by E. E. Risien, San Saba, Texas. 
wire cloth. Every indentation made by the wire meshes 
produces embryo roots which have an inestimable value. 
3. Formation of top roots that at once push out from 
the embryo roots when removed from the wire. 
The Risien method aims to prevent tap roots in seed¬ 
ling pecans by placing in the bottom of the trench a layer 
of closely woven wire mesh. This arrests the dow-mvard 
growth of the tap root, and stimulates'lateral development. 
