The Pecan and its Culture

Pecan Nuts—uniform in size, color and shape. Variety, Curtis.
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA The American Fruit and Nut Journal 1906
Copyright, 1906. By H. Harold Hume.
Introduction. Botany.
Varieties.
Cultural.
Harvesting. Marketing.
Diseases. Insects.
Uses. Literature.
In the horticultural development of the country, new fruits, new groups of fruits, new fruit industries are coming into prominence. Our native fruits in particular are now receiving, in many parts of the country, a larger share of the attention which they have always merited, and none has proven itself more worthy of careful study and painstaking care than the pecan.
Within the last ten or fifteen years it has rapidly emerged from a wild or semi-wild condition to the status of an orchard nut. The foundations of its culture were laid a considerable time ago, but only now is it coming to its own, its well merited standing among the fruits of the country.