cteristics. The Kentucky grows in the river bottoms surrounded by
lumber trees. Now, the Posey doesn't grow very tall, but it grows a
wonderful stocky, sturdy tree, and has leaf stems as long as my arm in
the nursery. Of course, each particular wood has its color
characteristics. But one thing I observed was that in the other
nurseries they don't color up as they do in mine. For instance, at Mr.
Jones', it will puzzle me sometimes to tell which variety it is by
looking at the wood. Of course, after he would say "This is Butterick"
or "Busseron," I could see, probably, the characteristics, but there is
a little difference in the color of the wood.

THE PRESIDENT: Have you found any difference between these three trees
as to attainment of height?

MR. MCCOY: Well, I suspect that the Butterick is the fastest grower of
them.

THE PRESIDENT: What is the slowest?

MR. MCCOY: The Indiana, I guess.

A MEMBER: How does the Major behave?

MR. MCCOY: The Major is a very slender, tall tree. The Green River is
inclined to be spreading.

THE PRESIDENT: That testimony as to the Indiana being a slow
grower--does anybody verify it?

MR: LITTLEPAGE: Same thing in Maryland, Mr. President--slowest grower I
have.

THE PRESIDENT: Is that sufficiently marked to make it best for us to
hold up its propagation until it has shown some reason for being grown?

MR. LITTLEPAGE: I don't know. The Busseron and the Indiana, which is
supposed to be a seedling of the Busseron--the Busseron outgrows the
Indiana in Maryland five times. But the Indiana is a thin-husked nut.
The Busseron, on the other hand, is a thick-husked nut, a fine place for
the nut worm if he ever gets bad. There are a lot of such things that
you have to think of.

MR. MCCOY: I visited most of these parent trees this year. They are all
centered around Evansville. There is no crop on the Busseron. The
Indiana will, perhaps, have a peck. In the month of May, in Kentucky,
and Indiana, and Illinois, we had rains continually. I have often heard
the expression from the Southern nurserymen that "the pecan is caught
with the frost." Now, that is clear out of place with us. We all smile
at the idea that an Illinois, Indiana or Kentucky pecan would be caught
with the frost, which never affects them. But the rains always affect
them. If the month of May is a beautiful, dry, clear month, you can
gamble on the pecan crop. Now, this year we won't have much of a crop.
The Warwick will