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





























Total 
Alti- above 
tude Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. 50° 
TihaecasN=. Youucaeete 928 44.8 56.7 65.8 70.4 67.9 61.7 50.2 72.6 
Lewisburg, Pasa. A50~ 49.4-°59.9- 69.0 73.3 :70738 °66.45 51.6) 91-2 
Mount Weather, Va.*.. 1726 44.9 57.1 66.0 70.0 68.2 61.8 51.0 62.3 
Washington, D. C...... 5 5S eb O4s lr olan LO none 14 OP ObE dm sOOTO mL cLee 
Harrisburg; Pac. 368° 5057" (6127 10232 14.25) 722 164.9 54 Oe eee 
New York City, N. Y.. 3140°48.5 15954 ~6920~ 74.5 ~ 72.8% 65:9 55.2) 9 96.0 
Hartford, Conn........ WOO” AGH Gye yak FAG GA) Gi Hh AB 
Albany NAY sea ee 97 = 46 512 59.2) 6824 = 2723 10 8 62.50 DUR ieoon! 
Pittsburgh,’ Pas 23s. 750: °-51.0° 6276.97) 74.6 “ZEs> 66.1) 554. Oe 10258 
Columbus, Ohio....... (AAs ole 6225 el sOse or eee OOO Annie OA aa 
Indianapolis, Ind....... 120%. D224 BO353 S127) (Onl 21559 8800597 35 ea 
Evansville, Ind........ 384° 255515 867.0 75.0 = (82.6000. 7160 59 Cdaelo4ae 
Madison, Wis.......... 8607°45.6° 57.6 67.5%:72.0° 69.8 6233°- 50.0 = 79.0 
Des Moines, Iowa. .... $05-550:67 61512 7032* 74.9 473.0) 16521-53325 98 
Omaha, Nebr.......... 1034.-450.5 262157 7126- 76159 974.4 65.3 54.2 610565 
Topeka, Kans......... 890.753 50. 6550 13 bs Psu F0L 0 OES 5675 mel coe 
* 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 a horticultural science that many varieties 
row of them in southern Illinois planted fitting tandeanierot ? ap Pathe 
from the best seed they could find. None aiid Aired tleea a BiG DE 
: “ae : quality near the northern range of the 
gave nuts like the original seed, no two species. The oranges of Florida and Cali- 
were alike, and nearly all were virtually fornia are better than the oranges of 
worthless. ; Brazil or Cuba. 
You can beat George Washington easily 
because the tens of thousands of wild trees ans 
of the Ohio Valley have been carefully e Range of the Pecan 
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 
