. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 14 The Bulletin, ordinary nursery methods of propagating the apple and peach fail almost entirely with pecans. Special and difficult methods of-budding and grafting must be employed, and our best-known methods of propagating pecan trees give, under favorable conditions, only about 50 per cent of living buds. Pecan bud-wood is also much more expen- sive than that of standard varieties of fruit trees. There is a remarka- ble variation in the growth of the little seedling trees in the nursery rows. Some
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 14 The Bulletin, ordinary nursery methods of propagating the apple and peach fail almost entirely with pecans. Special and difficult methods of-budding and grafting must be employed, and our best-known methods of propagating pecan trees give, under favorable conditions, only about 50 per cent of living buds. Pecan bud-wood is also much more expen- sive than that of standard varieties of fruit trees. There is a remarka- ble variation in the growth of the little seedling trees in the nursery rows. Some of the trees grow off all right, but often a very large per- centage of them are "runts" and will not make good trees if given the most favorable conditions for years. Fig. 5 illustrates a row of. Fig. 5.—Pecan Seedlings in Nursery Row, Showing Great Variation in Vigor. (Photo by H. H. Hume, Glen Saint Mary, Florida.) nursery stock showing the great variation in the seedlings. With reputable nurserymen the small "runty" trees are destroyed, for they are lacking in vigor and will never amount to anything. Fig. 6 shows one of such trees that is 16 years old and has not made 5 feet of growth. This culling out of the seedlings which are lacking in vigor is of course a considerable loss to the nurserymen and must necessarily increase the price of the remaining trees. Unfortunately, all nurserymen are not as scrupulous as they should be, and while an honest propagator would put the stunted trees on the brush-pile, another uses them to fill orders for smaller sizes of trees. The planter. 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 North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture. Raleigh : State Board of Agriculture
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