ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATES. Page
Frontispiece, [2]
An avenue shaded by pecan trees, [13]
Pecan flowers, [21]
A pecan nursery, [71]
Budding tools, [73]
A two-year top-worked pecan tree, [85]
An old pecan tree top-worked, [88]
The pecan bud moth, [136]
The case-worm, [139]
A pecan catocala, [141]
FIGURES.
Approximate pecan areas, [17]
Money-maker, Post, San Saba, Bacon, [29]
Curtis pecan, [32]
Mammoth, Dalzell, Kennedy, [33]
Frotscher pecan, [35]
Georgia pecan, [36]
Schaifer, Ideal, Ladyfinger, Atlanta, [41]
Mantura pecan, [43]
Pabst pecan, [46]
Russell, Franklin, Kincaid, [49]
Schley pecan, [51]
Stuart pecan, [52]
Success pecan, [53]
Van Deman pecan, [55]
Nussbaumer, [58]
H. minima and two hybrids, [59]
Schneck hybrid, [60]
Grafting iron, Budding knife, [72]
Scions, [76]
Annular budding, [78]
Veneer shield-budding, [79]
Chip-budding, [80]
Cleft grafting, Whip grafting, [81]
One-year pecan in fruit, [82]
Pecan tree grown on quicksand, [90]
View of bud union, [99]
View of whip graft, [100]
Annular bud, [101]
Rectangular planting system, [104]
Hexagonal planting system, [105]
Planting-board, [107]
A nursery tree with good root system, [119]
Taproot cut and uncut, [120]
Spraying pecan trees, [131]
Nut crackers of different types, [149]
Woodson's power kernel extractor, [151]