ey got after the trees, too.

MISS LOUISE LITTLEPAGE: Why does the rain affect the nuts, and why in
that certain one month?

MR. MCCOY: In our latitude the pecan blooms somewhere near the twentieth
of May, from that probably up to the twenty-fifth, and the pollen is
scattered by the winds, and, if it rains at that particular time, the
female bloom perishes, and we have no pecans. I think the pecan depends
entirely upon the winds.

THE PRESIDENT: We have been hoping all the time that we would have a
chance to hear from Prof. Hutt on the relation of the hickory stock to
the pecan top. A good many persons have experimented with it, and
papers are giving, from time to time, glowing accounts of the pecan tree
on hickory roots. We would like to hear from Prof. Hutt.

PROF. HUTT: We haven't much data matured on that at present, Mr.
President. It takes so long to get data on those subjects. We have a lot
of trees budded on the stocks of water hickory and on the pecan, and we
are testing them out. My theory was that the _Hicoria aquatica_, growing
in wet, sour lands, would enlarge the range of probable production of
pecans on such lands, and on lands on which the pecan, on its own roots,
could not normally be grown, but our data are not matured yet. I think
they have been three years in the nursery and two years set in the
orchard. It will probably be four or five years before we get any exact
data on that subject.

THE PRESIDENT: Perhaps, Mr. C. A. Reed has investigated some of the
later top-worked hickories.

MR. C. A. REED: That is an old question--pecan on hickory. It has been
tried all over the South and the Southwest, and you will see some this
afternoon at Mr. Littlepage's place. As a usual thing, the enthusiasm
over pecan on hickory has run high while the experiment was new. The
propagator has found that it was not a difficult thing to make the
scions live, and, so long as the hickory stock is larger than the pecan
scion, so that the feeding capacity is equal to, or even greater than,
the consuming capacity of the scion, the outlook has been very
satisfactory and encouraging, and while that stage has been going on a
great deal has been written. A little later you hear less about it, and
less and less, until, finally, you hear almost nothing. But I will say
this, that there are sections in the Southwest where there is
considerable enthusiasm over it just now. Just recently an article was
published by Judge Frank Gw