Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections.) [Illustration: PECAN NUTS--uniform in size, color and shape. Variety, Curtis.] THE PECAN AND ITS CULTURE BY H. HAROLD HUME PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA THE AMERICAN FRUIT AND NUT JOURNAL 1906 Copyright, 1906. By H. HAROLD HUME. CONTENTS. PART I. Introduction. Botany. CHAPTER I. Commercial and Ornamental Importance of the Pecan. CHAPTER II. Native and Cultivated Range. CHAPTER III. Pecan Botany. PART II. Varieties. CHAPTER IV. Varieties. CHAPTER V. Pecan Judging. PART III. Cultural. CHAPTER VI. Propagation of the Pecan. CHAPTER VII. Top-working Pecans. CHAPTER VIII. Soils and their Preparation. CHAPTER IX. What Varieties to Plant. CHAPTER X. Purchasing and Planting Pecans. CHAPTER XI. Cultivation and Fertilization. CHAPTER XII. Pruning. PART IV. Harvesting. Marketing. CHAPTER XIII. Gathering, Storing and Marketing Pecans. PART V. Diseases. Insects. CHAPTER XIV. Fungous and other Diseases of the Pecan. CHAPTER XV. Insects Attacking the Pecan. PART VI. Uses. Literature. CHAPTER XVI. Pecan Kernels. CHAPTER XVII. Literature. ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATES. _Page_ Frontispiece, 2 An avenue shaded by pecan trees, 13 Pecan flowers, 21 A pecan nursery, 71 Budding tools, 73 A two-year top-worked pecan tree, 85 An old pecan tree top-worked, 88 The pecan bud moth, 136 The case-worm, 139 A pecan catocala, 141 FIGURES. Approximate pecan areas, 17 Money-maker, Post, San Saba, Bacon, 29 Curtis pecan, 32 Mammoth, Dalzell, Kennedy, 33 Frotscher pecan, 35 Georgia pecan, 36 Schaifer, Ideal, Ladyfinger, Atlanta, 41 Mantura pecan, 43 Pabst pecan, 46 Russell, Franklin, Kincaid, 49 Schley pecan, 51 Stuart pecan, 52 Success pecan, 53 Van Deman pecan, 55 Nussbaumer, 58 H. minima and two hybrids, 59 Schneck hybrid, 60 Grafting iron, Budding knife, 72 Scions, 76 Annular budding, 78 Veneer shield-budding, 79 Chip-budding, 80 Cleft grafting, Whip grafting, 81 One-year pecan in fruit, 82 Pecan tree grown on quicksand, 90