Speaking of pecans, we have harvested the first crop this year here on the station, from trees planted in 1932, of the varieties Indiana, Greenriver, Busseron and Major. Even though these nuts were not harvested until November 9 they are poorly filled. It seems that we just cannot mature them here in an average season. Our trees have not grown satisfactorily and although they may bloom, the nuts normally fail to mature.
Our summers are not long enough and the day and night temperatures are not high enough uniformly to satisfactorily produce pecans even in this area.
Very truly yours,
H. L. CRANE
Principal Horticulturist,
Division of Fruit and Vegetable
Crops and Diseases
U. S. Plant Industry Station.
Beltsville, Maryland
~Editor's Note:~ Dr Crane's experience is exactly similar to my own. The pecans in the grounds at my country home were well loaded with nuts this year, 1950. I doubt if a single nut was half filled.—L. E. T.
Nut Tree Diseases in Europe and Turkey
November 17, 1950
Dr. Lewis E. Theiss
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Dear Dr. Theiss: