. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 28 The Bulletin. nuts with a mixture of the characteristics of the pecan and the bitter nut. The hickories are also cousins of the pecan tree and cross with it, giving rise to a race of trees producing the nuts called hicans. The nuts from isolated pecan trees, producing large nuts, would be more likely to come true, because they would more possibly be fertilized with their own pollen. Even in this case they might by the law of atavism revert to some remote ancestor that bore very small, thick-shelle
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 28 The Bulletin. nuts with a mixture of the characteristics of the pecan and the bitter nut. The hickories are also cousins of the pecan tree and cross with it, giving rise to a race of trees producing the nuts called hicans. The nuts from isolated pecan trees, producing large nuts, would be more likely to come true, because they would more possibly be fertilized with their own pollen. Even in this case they might by the law of atavism revert to some remote ancestor that bore very small, thick-shelled nuts. Bitter experience from nut plantings in every part of the country show that there is little to be expected from pecan trees produced from selected nuts. The only way to have the pecan come true would be to have it systematically "rogued," as is done in the annual generations of our garden vegetables. A short,. Fig. 14.—Life-size Illustration of Seedling Pecan and a Nut of the Stuart Variety. {Photo by S. B. Shaw.) smooth, red carrot will come true from seed, because all individuals have been "rogued" out of the planting, except those that are short, smooth and red. It would take a Methuselah, however, to "rogue" the pecan sufficiently to come true. It is fortunate, though, that plants will not come true, for then we would be unable to get new varieties by plant breeding. For commercial purposes we have a much quicker and surer way, by grafting and budding, that will with unerring accuracy give us thousands of individuals which have the characteristics we desire. SEEDLINGS VS. NAMED VARIETIES. "What's in a name ?" Everything, when it comes to pecans. The name which distinguishes a variety of pecan from a seedling is the same as the breed name that distinguishes a high-class type of cattle from the "; The name stands for known characteristics; the seedling stands for nothing. The named variety was originally a. Ple
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