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by Liberty H. Bailey. (2) Trees grown from western Texas seed, latitude 35° 30', longitude 100° W. enduring —20° F, in latitude 39° in northern Virginia,^[1] but not ripening seed. (3) Trees from Iowa seed ripening nuts at Lincoln, Nebraska. (4) Pecan trees thriving and ripening seed (rarely) fifteen miles north of Toronto, Canada; also trees from Georgia seed thriving in southern Ontario.^[2] (5) Very surprising is a communication from J. U. Gellatly, Westbank, British Columbia (American Nut Journal, April, 1928, p. 65), reporting successful fruiting of good pecans five years after planting in the orchard. This is at an elevation of 1500 fect in the Okanogan Valley. (6) Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is a thrifty pecan tree at Fairhaven, Vermont, latitude 43° north, altitude 530 feet. This tree is the lone survivor of many attempts by Mr. Zenas Ellis, an enthusiastic private experimenter. It blooms, but being alone it does not set fruit. It is very suggestive breeding material.

All these facts go to show that the pecan has great possibilities as a shade tree in a large area where it cannot be a com-

↑ Shortly before the year 1900, Mr. Thomas Hughes, a schoolmate of mine, sent some pecan nuts from his home in Sweetwater, Texas, latitude 35° 20" north, longitude 100° 20' west, to Mr. A. B. Davis, nurseryman of Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia, Philadelphia climate. Trees from this seed seem to be perfectly hardy, but seldom if ever have time enough in which to ripen their fruit. When topworked to good Indiana varieties, they bear in four or five years and ripen the nuts nicely.
↑ James Neilson, Professor of Horticulture, Port Hope, Ontario, tells me of a thirty-foot pecan tree from Georgia seed growing on the farm of Theron Wolverton, Grimsby, Ontario; of one thirty-five feet in height at Simcoe, Ontario, on the farm of Lloyd Vanderburg, who brought the seed in person from from Missouri: of a group of five trees at Richmond Hill, Ontario, thirty-five feet high, fifty years old, standing in sod with no attention, seed from southern Indiana:

Young grafted northern pecan trees are doing well and enduring ten degrees below zero on the farm of John Morgan at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Professor Neilson also reports, p. 25, Northern Nut Growers' Association Annual Report, 1923, pecan trees fifty years old, thirty-five feet tall, perfectly hardy on the farm of C. R. Jones, at Richmond Hill, fifteen miles north of Toronto, latitude 43.45° north. They rarely ripen, but in the year 1919 did do so. I have seen these trees. They are fine.

[1] Shortly before the year 1900, Mr. Thomas Hughes, a schoolmate of mine, sent some pecan nuts from his home in Sweetwater, Texas, latitude 35° 20" north, longitude 100° 20' west, to Mr. A. B. Davis, nurseryman of Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia, Philadelphia climate. Trees from this seed seem to be perfectly hardy, but seldom if ever have time enough in which to ripen their fruit. When topworked to good Indiana varieties, they bear in four or five years and ripen the nuts nicely.

[2] James Neilson, Professor of Horticulture, Port Hope, Ontario, tells me of a thirty-foot pecan tree from Georgia seed growing on the farm of Theron Wolverton, Grimsby, Ontario; of one thirty-five feet in height at Simcoe, Ontario, on the farm of Lloyd Vanderburg, who brought the seed in person from from Missouri: of a group of five trees at Richmond Hill, Ontario, thirty-five feet high, fifty years old, standing in sod with no attention, seed from southern Indiana:

Young grafted northern pecan trees are doing well and enduring ten degrees below zero on the farm of John Morgan at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Professor Neilson also reports, p. 25, Northern Nut Growers' Association Annual Report, 1923, pecan trees fifty years old, thirty-five feet tall, perfectly hardy on the farm of C. R. Jones, at Richmond Hill, fifteen miles north of Toronto, latitude 43.45° north. They rarely ripen, but in the year 1919 did do so. I have seen these trees. They are fine.

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