MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FROM U. 8S. WEATHER BUREAU 
CLIMATIC SUMMARY OF U.S. 





















Total 
Alti- above 
tude Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 50° 
Lihacay Nye Yer aeeee 5 928 44.8 56.7. °65.38°-70.4 67.9. Gle7 ea 0R2 ee 
Lewisburg ©Pace ea A450. .49°74 59.9 °69.0 °73.3 70.84 .66,4 995, eoee ee 
Mount Weather; Va.*.. 1726 44.9 57.1 66.0 70.0 68.2 61.8) SIROmG283 
Washington, DsG@i2 15> O37l "64.2: 72:7 16:8" 74.5° 685) 50n0mee ee 
Harrisburg, Pa......... 368-.50.7. 61.7-°70.3 74.5 72:1 64,9" S54anOmeeo gee 
New York City, N. Y.. 314, 4875 59.4 69.0 74.5. 7258 65° 9a ome 
Hartford, Conn. 4 os 100. 4627 » 5725° 67.1. 71.6 .68, 9° 65 a ee 
Alban yeeNia eos eee 07 46.7 59.2 9 68.4> 72.3 > 70.5. (6275 9850s ee 
Pittsburgh Pas sec ee 750. °51.0 °62.6:-71.1 - T4167 72.57 605 ee 
Columbus, Ohio....... 744° 5101. (6255 71.0 75.2 72.7 66: Soa eee 
Indianapolis, Ind....... 720 °:52:4 63-3. 72.3 76:19 73:9%.66, 9S Soe eee 
Evansville, Ind........ 384... 55.1)- 67.0. 75.0. 78.6 9782) 7 6 oe 
Madison, Wis.......... 8600:°45.6) 57.6: 67.5 72.0 -69°8> 62)e Ue 
Des Moines, Iowa..... 805 -50.6 “61.1 -70.2 74.9° 73.0 65 le se meee 
Omaha; iNebr2a 3, eee 1034 2-50-5 1.62.5 9 71.6° 76.5: 74.4. 965385554 ee 
Topeka; Kans:... 5... J. $96 -53°7--65:0 73.5. 77.6 76.0" 68 322 56Reebe oes 
* Mount Weather is on top of the Blue Ridge near our Nursery. Sunny Ridge 
Nursery is on the slope of the mountain, elevation 800-1400 feet. According to the 
rules of the meteorologists it should be between 114 and three degrees warmer than 
Mount Weather. Therefore my total above 50° is probably about 73 at the top 
and 84 at the bottom. 
Beat George Washington Pecans of Highest Quality 
It is now easy for you to beat George At a national Pecan show at Mobile, 
Washington in the Pecan business, be- Alabama, with all the big Pecans of the 
cause you can plant better trees than he South present. the first prize for quality 
could plant. You can plant grafted trees. went to a Pecan from the Ohio Valley, the 
He only had seedlings, and if there is any place our varieties originated. Why this 
gamble that is loaded against you it is high quality? It is a fact well known in 
planting seedling Pecan trees. I’ve seen & horticultural science that many varieties 
A Sate ae annie a et Dae of fruit and nuts often produce their best 
rom the pest seed, they could nnd. None ~ quality near the northerns rane eaeameeae 
gave nuts like the original seed, no two species. The oranges of Florida and Cali 
3 ‘ ees ae Den an IX : e d 5S = 
were alike, and nearly all were virtually fornia ares het tore ChaTmeene oranges of 
worthless. : 
Bee Brazil or Cuba. 
You can beat George Washington easily 
because the tens of thousands of wild trees Ah 
e Range of the Pecan 
of the Ohio Valley have been carefully 2 
searched, the best trees have been found Where will the Pecan grow? It will 
and propagated, and you can now buy grow much farther north than it can 
little trees with every expectation that ripen its fruit. Seedlings from Texas 
they will yield nuts which you can crack thrive in the climate of Pennsylvania. 
in your hand, which will yield their ker- There are a few healthy old seedling trees 
nels in entire halves and have a quality in Connecticut. A beautiful tree in a park 
that is not only the equal of any Pecans’ at Hartford, Connecticut, had a girth of 
from the South, but better. over 11 feet. It was apparently a southern 
