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Title: The Pecan and its Culture

Author: H. Harold Hume

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Language: English

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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