. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture . uish-green young wood. It occasionally bears large crops, but iserratic in this respect, and at most points where it has been tested alarge proportion of the kernels are defective. Aside from the factthat a portion of the crop is of extraordinary size, there is little tocommend it to the planter. * The specimens illustrated on Plate LVII were grown by Paul , Central, La. Russell Pecan. [plate lvii.] The Russell pecan tree, like all others at Ocean Springs, Miss., wasgrown from planted nuts, that locality being below the nat
. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture . uish-green young wood. It occasionally bears large crops, but iserratic in this respect, and at most points where it has been tested alarge proportion of the kernels are defective. Aside from the factthat a portion of the crop is of extraordinary size, there is little tocommend it to the planter. * The specimens illustrated on Plate LVII were grown by Paul , Central, La. Russell Pecan. [plate lvii.] The Russell pecan tree, like all others at Ocean Springs, Miss., wasgrown from planted nuts, that locality being below the native rangeof the species in that section. This tree was one of a lot of seedlingsgrown by the late Col. W. R. Stuart, of Ocean Springs, Miss., about1875, from nuts secured by him from James Moore, a blacksmith ofthat village. The exact source from which Moore secured the nutsis not known. Colonel Stuart sold five of these seedling trees toPeter Madsen, who planted them in his garden, now the property of Yearbook U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1904. Plate Yearbook U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1904 Plate LVII.
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