. 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. 126 J. STICKLER SEED CO., I/TD., ALMANAC AND. Rome Pecans. plant food, merely hastening the growth above ground and at the same time, by that much earlier, bringing the bearing branches into a fruitful con- dition. The sole argument in favor of not trans- planting consists in a fact that is undeniable, i. e., that the non-transplanted tree,
. 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. 126 J. STICKLER SEED CO., I/TD., ALMANAC AND. Rome Pecans. plant food, merely hastening the growth above ground and at the same time, by that much earlier, bringing the bearing branches into a fruitful con- dition. The sole argument in favor of not trans- planting consists in a fact that is undeniable, i. e., that the non-transplanted tree, with its long, large, tap-root, is more able to stand the force of high winds and storms. Second. What results are to be expected from planting the nuts of the best varieties of pecans in comparison with the budded trees? A single mo- ment's reflection will suggest that nuts of the very finest varieties cannot be expected to reproduce themselves when planted. This for the very obvious reason that the very nuts in question have, in all probability, been cross-fertilized, or pollenaled by some inferior tree in the vicinity. It may well happen that a few nuts on a fine tree may escape this hybridism; and, if so, these few nuts will furnish trees reproducing the quality of the original tree. But, if other pecan trees are in the vicinity of the fine tree, there is not one chance in a thousand that a nut will escape the fructifica- tion of the inferior tree. Even, if both trees be of equal quality, the hybrid from the two is vastly more likely to be of low than of good grade. I should notdeem itsafe to expect a reproduction of the fruit of a tree of a fine quality, if another pecan tree were growing within five miles of it. The pollen of the pecan, so light is it. can be wafted in a breeze of five miles an hour and retain its potency at the end of that voyage in the air. - If this be correct, as it undoubtedly is, it wi 1 readily be perceived that no reliance whatever can be placed
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