. Catalogue of Georgia paper shell pecan trees. Nursery stock Georgia Catalogs; Pecan Catalogs. WILL LIKE PRODUCE LIKE? The question is very often asked: "Will the Pecan come true to seed?" My ex- perience tends decidedly to prove that it does. To settle the question, the follow- ing was submitted to Mr. P. J. Beckmans, the foremost horti- culturist of the South and the recognized authority on all matters pertaining to it : ''The most reliable Pecan growers state that from 50 to 70 per cent of the seedlings from selected nuts ma}- be expected to come true to the parent " Please
. Catalogue of Georgia paper shell pecan trees. Nursery stock Georgia Catalogs; Pecan Catalogs. WILL LIKE PRODUCE LIKE? The question is very often asked: "Will the Pecan come true to seed?" My ex- perience tends decidedly to prove that it does. To settle the question, the follow- ing was submitted to Mr. P. J. Beckmans, the foremost horti- culturist of the South and the recognized authority on all matters pertaining to it : ''The most reliable Pecan growers state that from 50 to 70 per cent of the seedlings from selected nuts ma}- be expected to come true to the parent " Please advise me if this is a theory or an estrblished fact. If the latter, what authorities have you 011 the subject : He replied as follows. This is not a theory, but substantiated by the following suc- cessful Pecan growers. Samuel H. James, Cottage Oaks, L,a., says : "From my experience with Pecans I have found out the following facts: Trees grown from fine nuts reproduce themselves with slight ; His grove covers seventy acres, and he is preparing to plant thirty more. The late Professor Steele, of Mobile, than whom no better au- thority on matters of vegetable physilogy is living says: "Fully 90 per cent, if not 100, can be depended upon being the same as the seed ; Dr. Faust, of South Carolina, has a grove of many acres and has for years exhibited exceedingly large nuts at the South Carolina state fairs and at Augusta. The largest nuts were grown upon seedling trees, grown from extra selected nuts: by a judicious selection of the best nuts these seedling trees^hearly always pro- duce nuts similar to the seed and frequently Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original G. M. Bacon (Firm); Bacon, G. M; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.
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