The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-07-24

they are all mixed together you will
not get much money for them.
If you set grated or budded trees
(results are the same from either) and
make the mistake of seeking the very
largest nuts, you will be about as bad
off as though you had set seeding,
for the very largest nuts do not bear
WE'LL as a rule they are all shy bearers
Do not make the mistake of setting
the following: Rome, Columbia, Pride
OF the Coast, Centennial, Twentieth
Century, Jacock's Mammoth, or any
of the very largest nuts. The best
bearers are almost invariably the
medium sized nuts, and among the
best are the Curtis, Teche, Van Deman
and Frotscher.
There are more mistakes made in
selection of land, and of varieties, that
are vital to success, than anything
else. Following are some other mis-
takes people make: They do not spell
failure-they are only expensive. Any
one can raise Seeding trees from the
nuts. 1t is just as easy as falling off
a log, but to graft them to the varl-
cites you wish, is a job that requires
a lot Of experience, and it is very rare
that you can secure man to do graft
ing. A great many think they can,
because they have grated the apple,
pear or persimmon.' They will fall
until they get experience. How many
times have | seen men hired, and
they put in the expensive sciOns for
some one, and would only get five
to fifteen per cent to live.
A great many wishing to start
grove stake off their field where they
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or five nuts around the stake. When
old they are going to have them graft
ed That is all right-if you know
how to graft them, or can get some
one to do it who does (not the man
who says he can, but the one who can
really "deliver the goods'O. At best
you will have a very irregular grove,
for fifty per cent Of Lives" in grating
is good percentage. (Beware of the
man who guarantees seventy-hve to
ninety per cent? 1t will take five
years Of grating to get your grove
grated, ii you finish Them The ex-
pense Of labor, material, ETC., to say
nothing Of the disappointments, and
an irregular looking grove, and time
wasted, will be more than if you had
bought irSt-class grated trees and set
them at first BY working it this way,
in time, you will have the same re-
suits, if you have the perseverance.
But you have made a mistake. 1t is
not vital, but you will find it expensive
and a t1meWaSter.
1t is better really to plant a small
nursery and graft them, and set your
grove from the nursery This will in
sure more regularity i'll the grove.
1t is a mistake, however, unless you
are an expert with the budding or your
grating knife. For after you have
worried along with the nursery three
or four years you will find the truth
is herein told, and every grated tree
you take from your nursery will cost
you double the price you can buy the
same tree from nurseryman for
The worst feature of these little mis-
takes is not the cost, but the loss Of
time-three to five years gOne-and
usually no trees yet to speak of. And
right here many a man who otherwise
would have a good paying pecan grove
III a few years, falls down." and in
disgust lets the best paying PROPOSE
ton of the day pass him by. When
he gets old he is still hoeing down
to it regular as of yore-he has not
that grove of peCans to support him
in his declining days.
Mistakes cost time and money-they
aster. Avoid them, if possible, and
profit by the other fellows experience
The nurserymen have spent years i'll
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