. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PECAN PECAN Z'0'0 rods. The nuts should uot be left on the ground long enough to become wet or discolored by storms, as both appearance and quality are injured thereby. Most Pe- cans of medium size, and below, are now polished by. 1696. Named varieties of the Pecan friction in revolving barrels before being pla
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PECAN PECAN Z'0'0 rods. The nuts should uot be left on the ground long enough to become wet or discolored by storms, as both appearance and quality are injured thereby. Most Pe- cans of medium size, and below, are now polished by. 1696. Named varieties of the Pecan friction in revolving barrels before being placed with retail dealers. This process cleans and brightens the nuts, and renders them more attractive in appearance. Unfortunately, it has the same effect on stale nuts as on fresh ones, and makes possible the working oft' of old stock for new. Dealers have been quick to take advantage of this and frequently mix old polished nuts with neAV at the beginning of the season. It is therefore not advisable to polish or otherwise manipulate high- grade fresh Pecans at the present time. The demand for large, thin-shelled nuts for seed has consumed so large a proportion of the product up to the present time that market prices on large nuts for table use are hard to fix. For fresh nuts, running approxiniatelj' 50 or less to the pound, the retail price is rarely below 50 cents per lb. in the large cities, whiJe for seed, siich nuts, if of well-authenticated varieties, usually bring from $1 to $ per lb. Probably at least 95 per cent of the market supply is still from wild tiees and, as the crop varies greatly in quantity from year to ycai, the wholesale price is sub- ject to wide variation, 3 to 5 cents per lb. for ordinary wild Pecans ib about the a\erage price paid by buyers. In lecent full ciop \eais considerable quantities have been held over m lefrigerated storage, and large profits have been realized m some instances in this way. Large qumtities of the medium sizes are cracked in
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