. Almanac and garden manual for the southern states of the J. Steckler Seed Co., Nursery stock Louisiana New Orleans Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Frotscher's Egg Shell Pecans. The pecan nut tree "Carya Olivea Formis," grows wild in many of the Southern States, and is said "to be indigenous along the Mississippi river as far north as Southern Iowa.'' The bulk of the nnts on the market are from wild self-sown trees. Prices vary from 5c. to 50c per pound, showing conclusi
. Almanac and garden manual for the southern states of the J. Steckler Seed Co., Nursery stock Louisiana New Orleans Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Frotscher's Egg Shell Pecans. The pecan nut tree "Carya Olivea Formis," grows wild in many of the Southern States, and is said "to be indigenous along the Mississippi river as far north as Southern Iowa.'' The bulk of the nnts on the market are from wild self-sown trees. Prices vary from 5c. to 50c per pound, showing conclusively tnere is a great differ- ence in quality. The rich, sweet, oily nuts of thin shell and large size are the best. I have some now before me, some small ones, % of an inch long by % of an inch in diameter, and others Us incti in diameter by 2% indies long. These last are ten times the value of the first, because of superior quality, thin shell and large size. ' hese nuts are all from self-sown trees. The yield from full grown trees varies from one to* seven barrels, weighing about one hundred pounds per barrel. In no other class of wild fruit or nut trees is there a greater chance for improvement, or rather so great an improvement so easily effected. We have only to select the best so'rts nature has provided and bud or graft them on the common kinds. The most successful method is by "annular bud- ; It may be done anv time from the end of May up to the first part of August, varying as seasons and the localities differ, the earlier it can be done the better. With a sharp budding knife make two cuts com- pletely around the stock, about one inch apart, cut only through the bark, cut from the top circle to the lower one a straight cut aown, now slip off from the stock this piece of bark which is to be used as a pattern, that is, place it around the scion (or piece of branch o i which are the buds you wish to use,) covering a well developed eye; make the same cut as
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