winning trees.
Prizes will also be offered for hickory and walnut seedling trees. An
educational program is also planned in connection with the day's show,
and it will include a visit to the farm of the late Roscoe Stone, where
a top-working program was started last spring, as well as a visit to the
local nut cracking firm. This nut show is set up to become an annual
affair, and we feel that the sky is the limit for the good that can come
out of such an organized program as it affects the pecan industry in
that area.

There are thousands of acres of excellent pecan land in this
southwestern Kentucky area, that can be profitably developed into pecan
groves. The land is deep, very fertile, and is already well supplied
with moisture. We cannot question its being a natural home for pecan
production, for nature proved this point to the public two generations
ago.

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PRESIDENT DAVIDSON: Pecan Culture in South Carolina by Mr. A. M. Musser,
Head of the Department of Horticulture at Clemson Agricultural College
is next. Mr. Senn will read the paper because Mr. Musser is not able to
be here.

Pecan Production in South Carolina

T. L. SENN, Assistant Professor of Horticulture, Clemson, South Carolina

In the southern colonies on the Atlantic coast, the pecan was first
described by Thomas Walter in his publication "_Flora Caroliniana_" in
1787. He was an Englishman who had a plantation in St. John's Parish on
the Santee River, South Carolina, where he made an extensive collection
of southern plants. After describing the tree, evidently a nursery
specimen, he ended with the words, "The fruit I have never seen." It is
known now that the native range of pecan did not extend to the present
state of South Carolina. One of the first large pecan plantings in the
state dates back to 1890; This was a seedling planting of 1000 trees
made by John S. Horlbock at Charleston. Some of these trees are still
producing. The planting never proved profitable and has changed
ownership several times.

There are several small plantings of black walnuts, Chinese chestnuts,
and Persian walnuts in various parts of the state. Persian walnuts do
well in the Piedmont soil region and in 1947 the trees there had a good
crop.

+Commercial Pecan Plantings+

The pecan, is one of the most popular tree nuts and is the only one
grown on a commercial scale in South Carolina. Pecans are grown in every
count