THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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INVESTIGATIONS WITH PECANS 
C. D. Mat!hews Bien. Hpt. Cornr. Agl. N. C., 1911-18, ]>. 87 
A brief progress report on investigations with pecans 
being eonckieted at the Truck, Coastal Plain, and Pied¬ 
mont Stations of the North Carolina Department of Agi i- 
culture. 
The work of variety testing has shown the marked 
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i /V 01*^1 oil 11'll 1*1 qI* either landscape gar- ^ 
AAVFl t.AV>UAl.UX Aol. dener, nurseryman, 
florist or truck gardener who has made good, and who, for ^ 
any reason desires to make a change, and has about three 
thousand dollars to invest, may be interested in a proposi- ^ 
tion that I have to make. ^ 
Address B. P. G. care The National Nurseryman. ^ 
adaptability of certain varieti(‘s to North Carolina condi¬ 
tions, while others are proving undesirable. Performanci! 
records of individual trees kept at the sev(‘ral stations 
have shown that trees of the same variety under identical 
conditions are uniformly heavy yielders, while others are 
very jioor producers. Some trees produce uniformly large 
nuts and others uniformly small nuts. These results have 
been used as the basis for hud selection work. 
Correct cultural iiractices, such as tillage and the use of 
cover crops, have given good results in the increased size 
of trees as well as in the increased size and number of 
nuts produced when compared to trees grown in sod. 
Investigations dealing with the methods of budding and 
grafting employed in top-working pecan trees have led 
to the opinion that top-working should he confined, as a 
general rule, to trees not over 8 to 10 yeai's old to he en¬ 
tirely successful. A comhinatjoli of both grafting and 
budding has given the most satisfactory results.— U. S. 
Experiment Station Record. 
ONE OF THE LEADING FIRMS at Boskoop, Holland with 
special culture of nursery-stock for the American market, 
ask sole Agency for the U. S. and Canada. Import House 
preferred. 
Address Box 77, Care The National Nurseryman. 
WANTED —Experienced Foreman capable of handling a nur¬ 
sery plant located in middle west containing sixty acres of a 
general line of growing stock. Must be able to handle men, 
understand the keeping of records and detail work. Give ex¬ 
perience, reference and salary expected. Box 548, in care of 
National Nurseryman. 
HELP WANTED —Nurseryman capable of handling men. 
Knowledge of propagating not necessary. Permanent po¬ 
sition and good wages to the right man. 
S. G. HARRIS - - Tarrytown, N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
I FOR SAEE I 
1 * Apple Trees 7-9 years old 1-2 inch, Standard Pears 4-7 year.s | 
old, 1-1% inch Caliper; Plums, European and Japan 1-2 inch | 
Caliper in carload or box lots. Reasonable Price.s. ! 
j PATRICK O’HARA, | 
y Dansville, N. Y. j 
EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
If you need Everbearing strawberry plants to fill spring 
orders or if you wish to increase your planting in nurseries, 
we can supply you with genuine PROGRESSIVE Everbearing 
plants, guaranteed to be TRUE TO NAME and handled so as 
to reach you in best of growing condition. Write for prices. 
We have been growing and breeding the Everbearing straw¬ 
berries for the past eight years and have many new varieties 
growing in our experimental grounds that are not yet for sale. 
We invite a personal visit to our grounds during fruiting sea¬ 
son, preferably during August or September. The latch string 
IS always out. 
THE GARDNER NURSERY CO., Drawer 103, Osage, Iowa. 
