The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-10
Tho Pecan nnd It- culture.

Mr.. = Henry Thomson. Isle Of Hope.
Ca. writes ms. Reading the article IN
the Morning News on "Pecan-Growinr
and Planting the Nuts" induces me 10
write YOU q few fines on tho subject clv-
ing YOU my experience. which may prove
interesting 90 those who contemplate
planting pccaua
'Fiften years ago I ordered 100 2-vear-
Old trees ADVERTISED as thin-shellcd TeNts
pecans Thanksgiving day. 1855. my four
boys helped me plant them. The trees
no. you could not call them trecs-wcre
only switches. eighteen or twenty inches
long aud about one-haf inch in diameter.
the one long tap-rpot was longer than
the little tree. They all grew-nof one
died. but they grew 50 slowly for i've
or Fix years after planting ] had begun
70 think that my soil and location on
the salt water was not adapted TO their
successful growth. but they were then
busy establishing a firm foundation and
securing a water supply hv sending their
iap-roets down into the moist clay SUBJ
soil. The seventh year they began 10
grow upward. and make foliage and year
after year the trunks 81 the trees cx-
banded ana grew higher until now some
81 them are over sixty feet IN hight sew
cral OF the trees have been bearing nuts
for the past FIVE years but this year they
made grand squirt and nearly every tree
IN the grove bore nuts from a quart 20 a
bushel each.
The trees were planted twenty feet
apart IN the rows, with distance or thir-
~ feet between rows. Now fnd I
planted them too close together Thirty
nye feet apart each way o. as close ,s
they should grow-fortv feet woud be
better. Ny only regret is that while I
was planting ! did not plant lcno tree.
instead OF 100
las 10 the choice of planting the nuts
or Of getting two-year old trees. I can
not offer much in way Of suggestion n
large thin-shclled nuts are planted we
might expect 10 see the trees produce tho
same kind OF nuts. II is said that the
seed nut viii produce nuts OF similar
variety but have not 900 my planting
had time yet 10 prove or dlsprove the
assertion. as my Seeding trees are vet
too young 20 bear. Where Is the differ
ence though. for u one buys the trees
from nurseryman. those trees came
from nuts he planted. unless one orders
graucd trees and good varieties. graft
"a. would cost about s. piece
" Now IS the time 10 get fresh seed
nuts you say Yes, now IS the time
n the purchaser could only De assured
that the nuts were or this seasons
growth You add. with some little tr0u.
blc one coud get very large nuts OF the
tiptI-hhtH hlhh' th'h az WtlEn ~ 20 TIE
pound n ls a very fair seed nut how.
ever tyou saw. that weighs Ion 10 the
pound ] think that YOU may possibly be
mistaken IN this matter of weight as
nuts from my trees Gen r. T. Lee ana
President y. x. Cuyler bore nuts this
season that run o. 20 20 10 the pouna
ard the smallest weighed 20 20 che pound
from one other tree that bore great
many nuts ] send you by express sam
pie q the nuts from Gen r Z Lee.
You will also End three nuts that have
fallen from thc trees this year and o.
ing small. they we're lost "a the ieavea.
two 4 them ore cracked open ready %
srrcut. ard the third one cracked and vita
a snrout one-haif an inch long on is oper
end. This is the rootlet germ ready 20
descend into the ground and anchor there
for the winter Then IN spring vii come