The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-03
Modern Pecan Culture.

A description Of the pecan tree is, says
Louis Biediger 10 horticultural Journal,
something that many might think IN.
necessary to appear In print, and might
even overlook it, thinking that they don't
need Information on the subject, because
they have seen the pecan tr in all
stages of its growth. but l am reluctantly
compelled 60 believe that just these men
don't know some OF the very important
features OF q pecan tree. Yes, / have
met with men who solemnly protested
that the pecan grows on the young wood
like the grape. | hope that the reader
will by the following description learn
to know the pecan tree in lite real light,
and will not afterward be led wrong
path by a man who tninks he knows a
good deal about the subject; who has
never tefors studied the ee and has
his views only from q passing LOOK at it.
What | know is not all that can be
known, aud a grand fold Is yet left for
you to study in the way of pecan culture
This shall only DO a help to you so you
may not stumble at the first attampt to
raise pecans. The pecan is one OF the most
noted forest trees in the south, with a
slender cylindrical truk on which the limbs
will grow from five to fiifty or more feet
from the ground, according to how you
trim them, and will often grow slender and
long II MT properly trimmed.
buds will oped the shoots will grow
out two to twenty or more inches ia length
and if the tree il going 20 bear this year the
little oceans will show just at the end of
the young shoots about month after tn Q
first appearance Of the shoots and will have
a little bloom just on top Of them, at the
same time little punches Of bloom will ap-
pear on the last years growth Of wood In
the form OF little cat tails, but if YOU will
make more close examination OF them You
will see that they consist of very little
blooms, similar TO those on top of the little
pecans. Now. to make the pecan tree bear
the bloom dust or pollen from these little
blooms must come in contact with those on
top Of the pecous, just like the maize plants
Now, il YOU plant the trees too close
together they will lose much Of pollen to no
value, as the air cannot pass freely enough
to carry it from one tree to another; but |
and give the reader an idea of the roots OF
the pecan tree, which in deep sandy soil
penetrate the earth to a depth of fifty or
sixty feet, or, in other words Just 80 deep
until they reach the blue clay, when they
will spread out in all directions and CO ning
sometimes very near to the surface again.
But if on black XIV soil, or on soils where
the clay is only few feet under the surface,
they will spread earlier, but cannot stand
drought as well. TIE roots of a large tree
say three or four feet in diameter, will run
out 400 or 500 feet from the tree, making
the tres draw from very far away and
giving it in this manner the means to tide
over very serious thoughts, which the tree
has done out here in West Texas. In the
year Of 1887 not one tree died Of the effects
Of the drought. though 1T did not rain for
ten molths. The color of the bark and
branches of the pecan trees is brownish
black, the same as the roots and radicals,
while the leaves are generally of a dark
green color and consists of seven to nine
leaves connected together in the same way
like clover lelves.