val, with open sutures of medium
depth; texture firm, solid; flavor sweet, nutty; quality very
good indeed.

Described from specimens received from Wm. N. Roper,
Petersburg, Va., by whom it was named and introduced in 1906.

The original tree of this variety stands on the Mantura
homestead, in Surry county, Va., two miles south of the James
river, now owned by W. P. Wilson. Mr. Wilson's mother planted
four trees from nuts secured from a tree at Surry Courthouse,
Va., the Mantura being one of the four, The parent tree
measures about fourteen feet around the body, and bears crops
of good sized nuts. It stands about ten miles from the site of
the Mantura tree.

The Mantura tree is a large, symmetrical specimen with
wide-spreading branches. It is about eighty feet high and
measures about eleven feet around the trunk. It has been
bearing for the past fifteen years, and in 1905 yielded 275
pounds of nuts.

This variety will doubtless prove a valuable acquisition for
planters on the northern limits of the pecan area, as the
particular strain from which it comes has been growing in
Virginia for more than sixty years.

MEXICAN PAPER-SHELL. Reported by Ladd Bros., Stonewall, Miss.
Listed in "Nut Culture in the United States," 1906, p. 64. (See
Biloxi.)

MEYERS. The fruit of a variety of this name was distributed by
Judge Samuel Miller, Bluffton, Mo. (Andrew Fuller, in The Nut
Culturist, p. 170, 1896.)

MONARCH. (Syn.: _De Witt Mammoth._) Large, 2 x 7/8 inches;
ovate, sloping to base and apex; color dull gray strongly
marked with purplish-black splashes; base pointed; apex
pointed, wedged; shell medium thick, 1.1 mm.; partitions thick,
corky; cracking quality poor; kernel frequently badly filled at
base, sutures of medium width and depth, color yellowish-brown;
texture firm; flavor good, rather dry; quality good.

Originated by G. M. Bacon, DeWitt, Ga. (of the G. M. Bacon
Pecan Co.), and introduced about the year 1900. Owing to the
preemption of the name Mammoth, by another variety introduced
by the late Richard Frotscher, of New Orleans, La., the name
DeWitt Mammoth was changed to Monarch.[E]

MONEY. (Syn.: _Senator Money._) Size large, 1 x 7/8 x 7/8
inches; ovate, somewhat four-angled, color light brown marked