The Pecan and its Culture - H. Harold Hume

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]

PREFACE.

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.

In any horticultural industry many questions must be asked of the plant, the soil, the climate, in short, of the plant in its environment. They must be answered aright, if the industry is to succeed. The newer the plant in cultivation, the more numerous the questions are, the more difficult to answer.