dom found in the northern tier of
states. It thrives well as far north as the northern boundary of
Illinois. The writer has seen a transplanted tree in bearing in Branch
County, Michigan, and native trees along the Mississippi River near the
mouth of the Wisconsin.

The nuts in the extreme northern limit are not much larger than a hazel
nut. But the nuts that grow in Indiana and Illinois from the Ohio River
on the south to Rock Island on the northwest and Lafayette on the
northeast are much larger. Here are found many superior nuts worthy of
propagation. In fact, the writer has before him a great many nuts of
named and un-named varieties which he and Mr. Littlepage and others have
discovered in their search for worthy nuts in the native pecan woods.
There are many thousand acres of these groves on the Ohio, Green, Wabash
and Illinois rivers where many trees are found which bear nuts as large
as some of the varieties which are being propagated in the Gulf Coast
country.

The nuts of the Evansville group are especially noted for their fine
flavor. The people of this section will not eat southern pecans if they
can get native nuts. This year several carloads of these native wild
nuts will be shipped to the Cleveland, Boston, and New York markets.
While the finer nuts seldom get into the markets at all but are bought
by wealthy men in the locality where they grow. Many men buy from a
special tree year after year--its flavor suiting their taste.

The yield from some of these larger trees (and there are many of them
four feet in diameter and some as large as nineteen feet four inches in
circumference at shoulder height) is very good. The writer has seen a
number in the last few days which were estimated to have from four to
six hundred pounds, the most of the crop having not yet been gathered.
He knows of one tree which bore (17) seventeen bushels and Mr. Louis
Huber of Shawneetown gathered 718 pounds from another tree. Two hundred
and eighty-five pounds of nuts were gathered and weighted from the Luce
tree. These nuts were gathered green for fear of their being stolen and
it was estimated that fifteen pounds were left on the tree. Also that
the hail storm in early September destroyed fifty (50) pounds more.
Hence the Luce bore approximately eight bushels. The Kentucky tree had
four and one-half bushels by measurement. The Warrick tree had, the best
we can estimate, about 150 pounds. The Grayville, or Posey as Mr.
Littlepa