ge wishes to call it, bore at least two hundred pounds by
weight. One hundred and sixty pounds were gathered from the Major and
two hundred and fifty pounds from the Green River tree. We do not think
the Hinton bore to exceed two pounds of nuts. We do not know the amount
of nuts gathered from the Indiana and the Busseron trees. The Buttrick
tree had some three or four bushels of nuts this year but as a dredge
ditch was recently constructed by it, destroying half of its root
system, it did not mature its crop. This tree has been in bearing since
1817 and it has not been known to miss a crop previous to this year.

In our search for nuts worthy of being propagated we have found several
nuts as yet un-named that are in our opinion much superior to any
northern nut that has been brought to public notice. But as we know
little of their bearing record and do not wish to burden the nurserymen
with too many varieties we will keep these trees under observation for a
year or two before naming them.

We have been trying to propagate some of the best varieties at our
nursery for about three years. Our first attempt was root-grafting in
which our success varied from 15 per cent to 75 per cent under the best
conditions. We found after some experience that it was not difficult to
root-graft. But last winter, 1911-12, was the coldest winter for some
years, the thermometer registering as low as 20 degrees below. Most of
our root-grafts were killed back to the ground but few if any of them
were killed outright. When spring came they started new growth and are
now about four feet high. The fall of 1911 was very warm and wet and
they were in vigorous growth until the first week in November when we
had a hard freeze which killed the wheat, causing the worst failure in
that crop ever known in this section. The winter then following being
very cold we had two conditions against spring root-grafted pecans. But
we failed to see any budded ones that were injured. However, we only had
pecans budded to hickory which was done by Mr. Paul White in May, 1911
and, so far as we know, this was the first hickory top-worked to pecan
in Indiana. However, he now has quite a number top-worked last spring
that have made a growth of three or four feet. We also have both budded
and root-grafted pecans from last spring and summer so that in the
spring we will have a better opportunity to see what effect the winter
will have on them.

So far as we are able to d