The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . pecans are being planted, largethin-shelled nuts being chosen for seed. Grafting and buddinghave been attempted, but usually failed. Success in this iscoming and will quickly improve the character of the nuts, onlythe trees with the best nuts being used for propagation by enter-prising growers. Good seed cannot be depended upon to repro-duce itself in the fruit of the seedling trees. Cions and buds producethe same sort of nuts, when they come to bear, as the parent tree. Pecans are,
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . pecans are being planted, largethin-shelled nuts being chosen for seed. Grafting and buddinghave been attempted, but usually failed. Success in this iscoming and will quickly improve the character of the nuts, onlythe trees with the best nuts being used for propagation by enter-prising growers. Good seed cannot be depended upon to repro-duce itself in the fruit of the seedling trees. Cions and buds producethe same sort of nuts, when they come to bear, as the parent tree. Pecans are, 95 per cent, of them, still gathered in the pay nut gatherers from 3 cents to 5 cents per pound forthem at the railroad. The retailer gets 15 cents to 75 cents perpound. The yield varies with the years, and quantities are keptover in cold storage against a nut famine. The prices fluctuatesurprisingly, and offer great opportunities for speculation. 142 1 B^SBS BHB2y^ • ! ^9BSk J^^Bt *** i ^ .• y£BCE v %£, J^ v- •- ^^^S^ flH||SB^!i ^C jSjaS^rV^j^^jj^^l ^WBg^./J Pv« *j^^^3^^^H I ^ ? a c 03 6u0 a o u > .S u4_> to c a P 2 O <» ?,-s s s c o•5 ^ m ou WO W H w si 0 c CO Q £ o AS ^3 (O s ° h -a £ a CO J3 O M -o 0
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